Peter Szok , Ph.D.

• Books
  • Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama.  University Press of Mississippi, 2025. 
  • Restaurantes, rumba y más: Gringo’s Guide to Latino Fort Worth.  TCU Press, 2014.
  • Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama.  University Press of Mississippi, 2012. ACLS Humanities Ebook.
  • La última gaviota: Liberalism and Nostalgia in Early Twentieth-Century Panama.  Greenwood, 2001.
• Articles & Essays
  • Náñez-Woodward Collection of Panamanian Popular Art (2022).  University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries (Digital Library of the Caribbean).  Collection of 1000 digitalized photos of Panamanian art and artists.
  • Co-author. “Historical Commentaries, Panama and the Canal Zone.” In The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, edited by Robert A. Hill. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, ccxli–ccxlix. 
  • “Rey sin corona: Belisario Porras y la formación del Estado panameño.” In Historia General de Panamá, vol. III. Panamá: Comité Nacional del Centenario de la República, 2004, 49–70.

• AddRan Distinguished Lecture, 2012
• AM Pate, Jr. Research Professorship: 2014-15, 2025-26
• Contributing Editor, Handbook of Latin American Studies, 2009-2023.
• Fulbright: 2008, 2015-17
• Fulbright-Hays: 1993, 2002
• International Editorial Board, Revista de Historia (Costa Rica): 2009-present 
• Parsons Award.  US Library of Congress, 2017
• UF Latin American Studies Research Award, 2016

Scholar of modern Central America, focusing on Indigenous and Afro-Latin American visual culture, with a current project on the Caribbean coast.  More at: https://www.instagram.com/rumbero.art/.