Gladys McCormick

Associate Professor, History Department

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Courses

2024 Spring
- PAI 700 Selected Topics - Cont. U.S.-Mexico Relations
- HST 600 Selected Topics - Mexico-US Relations
2022 Spring
- HST 600 Selected Topics - Contemporary Mexico-US Relatio
- PAI 600 Selected Topics - Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Relat

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2009

Bio

Gladys McCormick’s research interests include the political and economic history of Latin America and the Caribbean, corruption, drug trafficking and political violence. She is the author of “The Last Door: Political Prisoners and the Use of Torture in Mexico's Dirty War," published in the journal The Americas in January 2017, and of the book "The Logic of Compromise: Authoritarianism, Betrayal, and Revolution in Rural Mexico, 1935-1965" (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

She is currently working on two book projects: one detailing the history of torture in Mexico since the 1970s and the other a co-authored overview of drug trafficking in Latin America. She teaches a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including survey courses on colonial, modern and contemporary Latin America, comparative revolutions, oral history methodologies, U.S.-Mexico relations and drugs and drug trafficking in Mexico.

McCormick recently became associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion at the Maxwell school.

Areas of Expertise

Latin America and the Caribbean, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico

Research Interests

Modern Mexican history, political and economic history of Latin America and the Caribbean, corruption, drugs and drug trafficking, questions of historical memory and political violence, gender, the experiences of rural peoples.

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"IC Center for Academic Excellence: Syracuse University Adaptive, Diverse & Ethical IC Professionals: Partnership for Educational Results (PER/SUADE)", Sponsored by Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)/DOD.

Selected Publications

Book
- McCormick, G., The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism. University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Journal Articles
- McCormick, G., "The Last Door: Political Prisoners and the Use of Torture in Mexico’s Dirty War." The Americas, 2017.
- McCormick, G., "Looking for Truths in a Constructed Archive: The Case of Jacinto López and the Politics of Accommodation in Rural Mexico." A ContraCorriente, 2016.
- McCormick, G., Briggs, L. and Way, J. T., "Transnationalism: A Category of Analysis." American Quarterly, 2008.
Book Chapters
- McCormick, G., "Torture and the Making of a Subversive during Mexico’s Dirty War." In México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and State Repression during the 1960s and 1970s. Pensado, J. M., Ochoa, E. C. (eds.) University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
- McCormick, G., "The Forgotten Jaramillo: Building a Social Base of Support for Authoritarianism in Rural Mexico." In Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968. Smith, B., Gillingham, P. (eds.) Duke University Press, 2014.