* This in-person lecture will also be livestreamed on Zoom, register here *
The Maxwell Museum is honored to welcome Dr. Alan Shane Dillingham (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), from Arizona State University. Event co-sponsored by the UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute.
OAXACA INGOBERNABLE: REFLECTIONS FROM OAXACA'S PAST FOR OUR SHARED FUTURE
Historian Dr. Dillingham will situate the Maxwell Museum's exhibit “Oaxaca Ingobernable: Aesthetics, Politics, and Art from Below” (set to close on March 14, 2025) within the broader context of Oaxacan history and politics. Tracing the prehistory of the 2006 Oaxacan teacher's strike and social movement, Dr. Dillingham will discuss the longstanding traditions of Indigenous self-governance and radical politics in the state. The lecture will reflect on the contested nature of Indigenous aesthetics in the Americas, how they at times serve state projects of tourism and folklorization while other times fuel insurgent politics for an emancipated future. Dr. Dillingham is the author of the award-winning book, Oaxaca Insurgente: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico.
Meet Our Presenter
Dr. Dillingham is a historian and associate professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. During the 2024-2025 academic year, he is serving as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Dillingham’s research focuses on the history of Native and Indigenous peoples across the Americas. He has published on twentieth-century Mexico, the intersection of anti-colonial politics and development policy, and labor and youth-led social movements.
His first book, Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2021) won two awards; the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award and the Conference on Latin American History's María Elena Martínez Prize in Mexican History.
Dillingham serves on the editorial boards of the Radical History Review and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History. He also serves on the international collective of the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Maryland. His writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NACLA Report, Animal Político, and Jacobin.
Read more about Dr. Dillingham's fascinating work by visiting his website.
Image: Collage of currently-displayed artwork at the Maxwell Museum. Courtesy of Colectivo Subterráneos, Pavel Acevedo, Gustavo García and Natalia Toscano.
