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Jimmy Del Rio Cabral

Jimmy Del Rio Cabral

Education
BA, University of La Verne - History
MA, California State University, Los Angeles – Modern Latin American History
PhD Candidate, University of Oklahoma, Norman – Modern Latin America

Current Research
My dissertation, entitled Foreshocks of Revolution: The 1960 Chilean Earthquakes, An Environmental Road Toward Socialism, is under the direction of Dr. James Cane-Carrasco.  It traces the environmental effects the 1960 earthquake, the largest recorded in human history, had on Valdivia and more broadly in Southern Chile.  By studying the disaster through the lens of environmental history I emphasize that ecological pressures changed the politics in that region, aiding the eventual election of Salvador Allende in 1970.  Valdivia, once a stronghold for conservative politics, drastically changed after the earthquake and during its recovery.

Additional Research Interests
Within the scope of my dissertation, I have integrated the historiography of the Cold War, and immersed myself in economic, agricultural, urban and transnational history, as Valdivia is defined by its trade between its hinterlands and the world.  Along with the fields of Latin American and Environmental History, I have also engaged with Asian Pacific History and Asians in Latin America.

jdelriocabral@ou.edu