Francisco Javier Bonilla
Graduate Student
Contact
- Porter Hall 225C
Education
- M.A. in History, University of Louisville, 2016
- B.A. in History and Political Science, University of Louisville, 2013
Interest Area(s)
20th century Latin American environmental history and historical geography, Panamanian history, urban environmental history, history of water
Publications
- Panama’s Massive Environmental Awakening, NACLA, 2023. https://nacla.org/panama-
massive-environmental-awakening
Book Reviews
- Francisco Javier Bonilla (2023) Marin V. Melosi, “Water in North American Environmental
History,” H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. September, 2023. - Francisco Javier Bonilla (2022) Emily O'Gorman, “Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human
Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin.” H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. July 2022. - Francisco Bonilla (2019) Corey Ross, “Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the
Transformation of the Tropical World,” Agricultural History, Vol. 93, No. 1 (Winter 2019), pp.
186-187 - Francisco Javier Bonilla (2016) Gordillo, Gastón, “Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction,” History: Reviews of New Books, 44:4, 106-107
- Francisco Javier Bonilla (2014) Jordana Dym and Karl Offen, eds., “Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader” Historia Ambiental Latinoaméricana y Caribeña 4, n. 1.
Conference Papers
- Sharing Knowledge about Water: Experiences and Practices in Teaching, w/ Dr. Abigail Owen,
American Society for Environmental History - ASEH 2024 (virtual) - “Una Historia Ambiental del Difunto Río Grande en la Antigua Zona del Canal de Panamá, 1520-1955,” VIII Simposio de la Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA), August 3-5 2016, Puebla, Mexico
- “An Environmental History of the Río Grande in the Panama Canal Zone,” Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, January 3-5, New Orleans, LA
Awards and Fellowships
- A.W. Mellon Fellowship for Digital Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020
- Richard and Constance Lewis Fellowship in Latin American and Iberian Studies,