Assistant Professor
Department of History
DaSilva Hall, Room 337
Staten Island Campus
300 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: (718) 390-4572
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 is currently finishing a study on Mexican regional
authoritarianism, titled The President that Never Was: Maximino
Ávila Camacho and the Taming of Caudillismo in Post-Revolutionary
Mexico. This book will be published in 2010 by Lexington
Books. In addition, he is working on a biography of Francisco
Villa, a major figure of the Mexican Revolution, as part of
ABC-CLIO’s biography series, scheduled to be published in
2011. Prof. Quintana’s pedagogical approach is based on the
Writing Across the Curriculum movement, which uses a variety of
writing techniques to help students understand course materials and
enhance their writing abilities and critical thinking.