Full CV – September 2023
Shaine Scarminach
Education
2023 PhD, Department of History, University of Connecticut
2014 MA, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles
2010 BA, Department of History, University of San Francisco
Professional Appointments
2023-24 Northern Arizona University, Department of History, Visiting Lecturer
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
“Sovereignty at Sea: the United States, Ecuador, and the Fisheries Dispute in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1945–75,” Diplomatica 4, no. 2 (2022): 155-179.
Book Reviews
H-Diplo Review Essay 209 on Marc Becker, The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files. H-Net Reviews (31 March 2020).
Awards and Honors
2020 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award, Department of History, University of Connecticut
2013 Eugene Fingerhut Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in History, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles
2010 David Herlihy Prize in History for Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Department of History, University of San Francisco
Grants and Fellowships
2020-21 Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut
2019 Research Stipend, The Rockefeller Archive Center
2018 Research Grant, The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation
2017 Thomas G. Paterson Graduate Fellowship in the History of US Foreign Relations, Department of History, University of Connecticut
2016 Field Research Grant, Tinker Foundation
2015 Pre-Doctoral Funding Award, El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut
2014 Outstanding Scholars Program Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Connecticut
Research Presentations
2020 Presenter, “Refusal and Resignation: The Reagan Administration and the Law of the Sea,” UCHI Fellows Talk, December 2.
2019 Presenter and Panel Organizer, “Refusal and Resignation: The Reagan Administration, the NIEO, and the Law of the Sea,” Rethinking Reagan and the Global South panel, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, June 20–22.
2018 Presenter, “Oceans Come First: The United States, Ecuador, and the Ocean Environment,” Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science, October 5–7.
2017 Presenter, “Of Borders and Boundaries: The United States, Ecuador, and the Ocean Environment,” New Perspectives in Environmental History, April 27.
2016 Presenter and Panel Organizer, “Making Waves: Territorial Sovereignty and Resource Nationalism in U.S.–Ecuador Relations,” Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War Americas panel, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, June 23–25.
2015 Presenter, “Salt of the Earth: The Salinity Problem and U.S.–Mexican Relations during the Nixon Administration,” New England Historical Association Annual Meeting, April 18.
Teaching Experience
Northern Arizona University
United States History to 1865
Survey of American Environmental History
Oceans in World History
University of Connecticut
Global Environmental History
History of the Ocean
American Environmental History
United States History Since 1877