About
Born in Montreal, Canada and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Wood studied at Michigan State University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Davis, where he received his Ph.D. in Latin American history in 1997. Rutland Professor of History at The University of Tulsa since 2012, Wood has published extensively on the history of Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and is finishing a two-volume work on Veracruz, Mexico.
Awards & Honors
- Outstanding Researcher Award, The University of Tulsa, 2021
- Outstanding Teacher Award, The University of Tulsa, 2020
- Gustave Reese Endowment Award, American Musicological Society (“Agustín Lara: A Cultural Biography”), 2012
- Harold Eugene Davis Award for Best Article Published by a MACLAS member 2006-07 (with James Baer), 2008
- Thomas F. Buckley Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of Tulsa, 2004
- Thomas McGann Memorial Book Prize-RMCLAS, (“Revolution in the Street”), 2002
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Research Interests & Areas of Expertise
- History of the Americas
- International political economy
- Urban/regional studies
- Migration
- Tourism
- Popular music
