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 and Honors
- University of Tulsa Outstanding Researcher Award, 2021
- University of Tulsa Outstanding Teacher Award, 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 (w/James Baer), 2008
- University of Tulsa Thomas F. Buckley Award for Teaching Excellence, 2004
- Thomas McGann Memorial Book Prize-RMCLAS, (“Revolution in the Street”), 2002
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Research interests and areas of expertise
- History of the Americas
- International political economy
- Urban/regional studies
- Migration
- Tourism
- Popular music
