Assistant Professor
Department of History
St. John Hall, Room 244 G
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
(718) 990-8014
quintana@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., 2007, The Graduate Center of the City University of New
York, Latin American History
M.A., 2004, Hunter College, CUNY, Latin American History
B.A., 1993, UPAEP, Puebla, Mexico, Architecture
Profile
Alejandro Quintana has been an Assistant Professor of history at
St. John's University since 2008. He received his Ph.D. in history
from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in
2007. Before joining St. John's University, he was a visiting
professor at Connecticut College. His academic interests include
the cultural legacies of authoritarianism, nationalism,
sovereignty, state formation, and democratic processes in
nineteenth and twentieth century Latin America, especially Mexico.
He published Maximino Ávila Camacho and the One-Party State:
The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary
Mexico (2010). The book was translated into Spanish and
published in Mexico as: Maximino Ávila Camacho y el Estado
unipartidista: La domesticación de caudillos y caciques en el
México posrevolucionario (2011). In 2011 he will also publish
Francisco Villa: a Biography, as part of Greenwood's
biographies series. Prof. Quintana's pedagogical approach is based
on the Writing Across the Curriculum movement, which uses a variety
of pedagogical techniques to help students understand course
materials, enhance their reading and writing abilities and improve
critical thinking.