Anju Reejhsinghani

Title: Assistant Professor

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Diploma, The London School of Economics and Political Science
B.A., Princeton University

Specialty

Latin American and Caribbean History; Asian Diaspora History; U.S. Latino/a History; Cultural History; Sports History; Public History

Courses

HIST 102 - World History since 1500
HIST 248 - Colonial Latin America
HIST 249 - Modern Latin America
HIST 293 - Asian American History
HIST 315 - Topics in Global and Comparative History: Sport in the Americas
HIST 348 - History of the Modern Caribbean
HIST 351 - History of Mexico 
HIST 355 - Topics in Latin American and Caribbean History: Asians in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean
HIST 355 - Topics in Latin American and Caribbean History: Social History of the Cuban Revolution
HIST 396 - Regional History through Study Abroad: The Cuban Revolution (in Havana, Cuba)
  

Select Publications

• “Museums in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, of Interest to Ethnic Historians.” Journal of American Ethnic History 28:3 (Spring 2009): 74-88.
• Book reviews for Journal of American Ethnic History

Works in Progress

For Blood or for Glory: A History of Cuban Boxing, 1898-1962 (book manuscript)

Select Presentations

• “The Johnson-Willard Fight: The View from Havana.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the North American Society for Sport History, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas), May 29, 2011.
• “Fighting for and against Revolution: Cuban Boxers and Revolutionary Rhetoric in the 1950s and 1960s.” Paper presented at the “Transitions in the Cuban Revolution” conference, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas), February 22, 2008.
• “Women’s Boxing in Latin America.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada), October 9, 2004.
• “Boxing in Contemporary Cuba: The Promise and Pitfalls of Shaping a Revolutionary Elite.” Paper presented at the Fifth Cuban Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Florida International University (Miami, Florida), October 30, 2003.

Professional Affiliations

• American Historical Association (AHA)
• Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
• Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH)
• Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS)
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
• Organization of American Historians (OAH)
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Regional Faculty Associate
• North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA)

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