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Jason Yaremko

Associate Professor
History Programme Coordinator, Bachelor of Education Access Programme (WEC)

Office: 3A35 Ashdown Hall
Phone: 204.786.9353
Fax: 204.774.4134
e-mail: j.yaremko@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees
B.A. (Winnipeg), B.A. (Manitoba)
M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Manitoba)

Areas of Interest
Latin America, North America, Aboriginal History, Cultural History, Intercultural Relations and Transculturation

Courses
1010: Canada in the Contemporary World: The Americas

1010: Aboriginal Peoples of the Americas
   FW2011-12, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, 1E05 (WEC)

2113: History of Slavery
   FW2011-12, Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, 2E02 (WEC)

2510: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, Pre-1815

2511: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, Post-1815

3117: Columbus to Castro: A History of Cuba

3115: Spanish American Political Culture

4103: Colonization and the Age of Modernity in Latin America

Selected Publications

"Julián: Maya Interpreter," in Conflict in the Early Americas: An Encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Conquests, Rebecca M. Seaman, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, August 2013).

"'Frontier Indians': 'Indios Mansos', 'Indios Bravos', and the Layers of Indigenous Existence in the Caribbean Borderlands," in Borderlands in World History: 1700-1914, Paul Readman, Cynthia Radding, and Chad Bryant, eds. London: Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming.

“'Gente bárbara': Indigenous Rebellion, Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Cuba, c. 1500-1800”, Kacike: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology (December 2006), 7(3): 157-184.

Articles on Treaties 1 through 10 between the Canadian government and First Nations, in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts and Sovereignty, Donald Fixico, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008.

"'Obvious Indian' - Missionaries, Anthropologists and the 'Wild Indians' of Cuba: Representations of the Aboriginal Presence in Cuba," Ethnohistory: The Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Summer 2009, 56 (3): 449-478.

"De Campeche a la Guerra de castas: La presencia maya en Cuba, del siglo XVI al XIX, ["From Campeche to Caste War: the Maya Presence in Cuba, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries"] Revista Chacmool: cuadernos de trabajo cubano-mexicanos [Journal of Cuban-Mexican Relations], December 2010, 6: 85-114.

"Colonial Wars and Indigenous Geopolitics: Aboriginal Agency, the Cuba-Florida-Mexico Nexus, and the Other Diaspora," Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2011, 35(70): 165-196.

U.S. Protestant Missions in Cuba: From Independence to Castro Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2000.

“The Path of Progress": Protestant Missions, Education, and US Hegemony in the "New Cuba", 1898-1940, in American Post-Conflict Educational Reform: From the Spanish-American War to Iraq, Noah Sobe, Ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.