Peter Szok , Ph.D.
p.szok@tcu.edu817-257-6651Reed Hall 105 (map link)TCU Box 297260
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., Tulane University (1998)
MA, Tulane University (1994)
BSFS, Georgetown University (1990)
Courses Taught
HIST 10933 Latin American History: National Period
HIST 30903 Indigenous Movements in Latin America
HIST 30913 History of Central America
HIST 41913 Afro-Latin America
HIST 49903 History Major Seminar: Modern Latin America
Areas of Focus
Modern Central America; Afro-Latin American and Indigenous Visual Culture
- Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama. University Press of Mississippi, 2025.
- 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.
- Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama. University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
- La última gaviota: Liberalism and Nostalgia in Early Twentieth-Century Panama. Greenwood, 2001.
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Restuarantes, rumba y más: Gringo’s Guide to Latino Fort Worth. TCU Press, 2014.
- AM Pate, Jr. Research Professorship: 2014-15, 2025-26
- Fulbright: 2008, 2015-17
- Fulbright-Hays: 1993, 2002
- Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Award. US Library of Congress, 2017
- University of Florida Center for 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/.
Last Updated: September 25, 2025