Dr. Joshua Savala

Assistant Professor of History

Dr. Joshua Savala received his PhD in History from Cornell University in 2019. His first book project, Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World (University of California Press, 2022) examines the collaborative relationships forged by Peruvians and Chileans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the book looks at maritime and port workers, masculinity and sexuality, medicine and cholera, anarchism, and the police. The book has won honorable mentions for the best book on the Southern Cone (Social Sciences) and the Flora Tristán prize (best book on Peru) from the Southern Cone and Peru sections of the Latin American Studies Association. The Fondo Editorial of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Instituto de Historia and Ediciones Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile co-published a Spanish translation as Más allá de la guerra: Historias de cooperación en el Pacífico peruano-chileno, 1856-1929 in 2024. Savala’s articles have appeared in Macrohistoria, Journal of Historical Geography, Hispanic American Historical Review, and the Journal of Social History, the latter two winning awards for best article on Peru (José María Arguedas prize) and best graduate student paper through the Peru and Labor Studies sections of the Latin American Studies Association. 

Savala’s teaching interest include social movements in Latin America, Modern Latin America, Histories of the Pacific, the Southern Cone, and the Andes. Prior to arriving at UTEP in 2024, Savala taught at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. 

More information at my personal website.

Office: Liberal Arts 225

Email: jpsavala@utep.edu

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Liberal Arts 225

Email: jpsavala@utep.edu