University of West Georgia
Department of History
Dr. Gary Van Valen
(Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2003; Assistant Professor)
Latin America, Indigenous Peoples
Dr. Van Valen is a historian of Latin America and indigenous peoples who teaches classes in these fields as well as in Atlantic and World history. His research centers on ethnohistory and cultural contact in Bolivia and New Mexico. He is the author of Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842-1932, which will be published by the University of Arizona Press in Spring 2013, and several articles. His next project is a history of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico during the period of Mexican rule.
Phone: 678-839-6036
Email: gvanvale@westga.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Spring 2013 Course Syllabi
History 1111-01: World History I
History 1111-03: World History I
History 3327-01: Latin America Since Independence
Sample Bentley chapter summary for World History
Past Course Offerings and Syllabi
History 3326: Colonial Latin America
History 4485: History of the Caribbean (Spring 2009)
History 5485: History of the Caribbean (Spring 2009)
History 1112H: World Civilization II (Since 1500) HONORS (Fall 2009)
History 3327: Latin America Since Independence (Spring 2010)
History 4422: US-Latin American Relations (Fall 2010)
History 5422: US-Latin American Relations (Fall 2010)
History 1112: World Civilization II (Since 1500) (Spring 2011)
History 6686: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (Spring 2011)
History 1112: World Civilization II (Summer 2011)
History 4413: The Atlantic World (Fall 2011)
History 5413: The Atlantic World (Fall 2011)
History 1112: World Civilization II--Honors (Fall 2011)
History 1111-05: World History I (Fall 2012)
History 1111-06: World History I (Fall 2012)
History 4485-02: MESOAMERICA AND THE ANDES (Fall 2012)
History 5485-02: MESOAMERICA AND THE ANDES (Fall 2012)