Faculty and Staff
Curriculum Vitae
Adrian Burgos Jr. Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
burgosjr@uiuc.edu
Education
Ph.D., History, “Playing America’s Game: Latinos and the Performance and Policing of Race in North American Professional Baseball, 1868-1959,” (University of Michigan, 2000).*
- *Latin American Studies Association Latino Studies Section 2001 Research and Dissertation Award Winner.
Book Projects
Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Race, and Latinos. (Under contract, University of California Press, American Crossroads Series)
Co-author, Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African American Baseball (Washington, DC: National Geographic Books, 2006). Harlem’s Numbers King: The Life Story of Alejandro Pompez(In Progress).
Capitalizing on Sport: America, Democracy and Everyday Life, co-edited anthology with CL Cole. (In Progress).
Beyond El Barrio: Transnational Life in Latino America, co-edited anthology with Frank A. Guridy and Gina Pérez. (In Progress).
Articles
“Entering Cuba’s (other) Playing Field: Cuban Baseball and the Choice between Race and Nation Journal of Sport and Social Issues vol. 29 no. 1 (February 2005): 9-40.
"Learning America’s Other Game: Baseball, Race, and the Study of Latinos," in Latina/o Popular Culture: Cultural Politics into the Twenty-First Century, Mary Romero and Michelle Habell-Pallan, eds., (New York: New York University Press, 2002): 225-239.
“‘The Latins from Manhattan’”: Confronting Race and Building Community in Jim Crow Baseball, 1906-1950,” Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York, Agustin Lao-Montes and Arlene Davila, ed., (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001): 71-93.
“Playing Ball in a Black and White Field of Dreams: Afro-Caribbean Ballplayers in the Negro Leagues, 1910-1950,” Journal of Negro History 82: 1 (Winter 1997): 67-104.
#“Jugando en el Norte: Caribbean Ballplayers in the Negro Leagues, 1910-1950,” Centro: Journal of the Center of Puerto Rican Studies 13:1&2 (Spring, 1996): 128-49.
#MacMillan-SABR Baseball Research Award, 1997.
Minor Publications
"Roberto Clemente” and “Latinos in Baseball," Encyclopedia of Latinas and Latinos in the United States Vicki Ruiz, et al., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
“Cubans in the U.S. Negro Leagues,” and “Cristobal Torriente,” Cuba: An Illustrated Encyclopedia Luis Martinez-Fernandez, et al., editors, (New York: Oryx Press, 2002).
Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, by Samuel Regalado, Western Historical Quarterly 30: 2 (Summer 1999): 226-227.
Early Latino Ballplayers in the United States: Major, Minor and Negro Leagues, 1901-1949, by Nick Wilson, Journal of Sport History (forthcoming).
El Beisbol: Journey Through the Latin American Passion and Pastime, by John Krich, Journal of Sport History (forthcoming).
Fellowships and Awards
Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Research Council, 2004-2005.
Faculty Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, UIUC, 2004-05. (Declined)
Faculty Fellow, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, UIUC, 2004-05. (Declined)
Release Time Grant, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, UIUC, Fall 2003.
Conference Grant (with Cheryl Cole), Capitalizing on Sport: America, Race, and Democracy Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, UIUC, Spring 2003.
Humanities Release Time Grant, UIUC Research Board, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, UIUC, Spring 2003.
Research Grant for Research Assistant,UIUC Research Board, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, UIUC, 2002-03.
Latino Studies Section 2001 Research and Dissertation Award, Latin American Studies Association.
National Baseball Hall of Fame Grant, Comprehensive Study of African Americans in Baseball History, Negro League Research/Authors Group, March 2001-October 2005. (Part of research team awarded $250,000 grant)
Ford Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, National Research Council, 1999-2000.
Walter A. Rodney Student Essay Prize, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan, April 1999.
Huggins-Quarles Dissertation Grant, Organization of American Historians, 1998.
MacMillan-SABR Baseball Research Award, Society of American Baseball Researchers, 1997.
Winner, Sixth Annual Graduate Student Essay Contest, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1995.
Selected Invited Talks
“From Cuban Stars to Dominican Giants: Alejandro Pompéz and the History of Latino Baseball,” The Newark Museum, November 19, 2005.
“Baseball Should Follow the Flag: Latinos, the Color Line, and Major League Baseball’s Globalization Strategies,” Symposium on Sport and Globalization: Critical and Historical Approaches, University of California @ San Diego, March 20, 2005.
“Saying It Is So-sa! Corked Bats, Loaded Language, and the Intellectual Disenfranchisement of Latinos in America’s Game,” Latino Studies in the Midwest Colloquium: A Symposium, Ohio State University, April 16, 2004.
“A Cuban-American Giant in America’s Game: Alejandro Pompez, Black Baseball, and the Making of a Transnational Circuit,” Tony Pizzo Endowed Lecture on Florida Immigration History,University of South Florida, March 21, 2004.
“Reclaiming Vincent Nava: Latinos, Race, and Historicizing America’s Game(s),” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, February 12, 2003.
Keynote Lecture, “Learning to Play America’s Game(s): Latinos, Baseball, and Racial Knowledge,” Latina/o Heritage Month, Oberlin College, September 26, 2002.
“Mas que Blanco y Negro (More than Black and White),” Baseball as America: Symposium on Latinos in Professional Baseball, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, July 20, 2002.
Other Professional Activity
Associate Editor, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, January 2003-present.
Voting Committee, Negro League Election, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Nov. 2005-Feb. ‘06
Screening Committee, Negro League Election, National Baseball Hall of Fame, June-Nov. 2005.
Co-Chair, Latino Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association(elected), March 2003-Sept. 2004.
Associate Director, Negro League Research/Authors Group, March 2001-present.