2007
Raymond Craib
Associate Professor, Department of History
Farmworkers
“Farmworkers” is a service-learning course offered each spring semester that
draws upon the expertise of faculty around campus in order to introduce undergraduate
students to the world of migrant labor, with an increasing focus on the lives
and labors of migrant farmworkers from Mexico and Guatemala working in upstate
New York
The Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship ensures that the course continues,
for the long term, and provides funds for students in their service-learning projects.
The Fellowship also allows for possibilities of expansion of the pool of lecturers/speakers
in the class, institutionalization of the course, and provides resources to network
with similar classes in other parts of the country.
Raymond Craib is in the Department of History where he specializes in Modern
Latin American history. His first book, Cartographic Mexico: A History of State
Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes examined the ways in which property and territory
was mapped in 19th and 20th century Mexico. He is currently working on a social
history of intellectual life, student politics and the university in Santiago,
Chile, from roughly 1900 to 1935. The study focuses in particular on two university
students, poets, and political activists and the political, intellectual, and
cultural world they inhabited: José Domingo Gómez Rojas and Pablo Neruda.
