City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book owes much to the suggestions, advice, and support of numerous people, each of whom deserves recognition. I have been fortunate to have been mentored by extraordinary teachers, beginning at Academia Cotopaxi in Quito, where Arthur Pontes and Eric Little first awoke my interest in history and Matthew Szweda and the late Buddy Burniske taught me the value of clear prose and analytical thinking. At Vassar College, David Schalk and the late Hsi-Huey Liang inspired me to pursue graduate work while Leslie Offutt reintroduced me to Latin America and has proved a tireless advocate and true friend over the years. I especially thank Mauricio Tenorio Trillo, with whom I first discussed this project over a rambling walk through Austin, Texas, that ended with empty coffee cups and a host of fascinating thoughts to be digested. He has continued to be a source of inspiration, a dedicated advocate, and strategic contrarian throughout the many phases of the book’s development. I wish to also thank several other mentors, including Jonathan Brown, Ginny Burnett, Jay Byron, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Shane Davies, Susan Deans-Smith, Gary Dibble, Henry Dietz, Seth Garfield, Aline Helg, Peter Jelavich, Christopher Leff, Mitch Miller, Michael Murray, and the late Donald Olsen. x \ Acknowledgments The book has also benefited from the invaluable advice of a number of colleagues in Ecuador and the United States. Guillermo Bustos of the Universidad Andina in Quito proved an invaluable guide as I first began to explore Quito’s archives, while Valeria Coronel and Eduardo Kingman of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) have been instrumental in shaping my understanding of Quiteño and Ecuadorian history. Chad Black was a comrade in arms throughout my research and made critical methodological suggestions that first helped me consider the possibility of bridging the colonial and national periods. Nancy Appelbaum, Marc Becker, Lina del Castilo, Consuelo Figueroa, and the late Thelma Foote have read and commented extensively on drafts of chapters for which I thank them. My writing group partners Pablo Bose, Margo Thomson, John Waldron, and especially Ignacio López-Vicuña deserve special recognition. Other valuable suggestions for contextualizing this study within Ecuadorian historiography have come from Xavier Andrade, Christiana Borchardt de Moreno, Kim Clark, Peter Henderson, Ana María Goetschel, Mercedes Prieto, Juan Ramos, Betty Salazar, Mireya Salgado, and Kate Swanson. I wrote the first draft of this book in New York where Pablo Piccato not only facilitated library access at Columbia University but was also a creative listener and friend, while Elaine Carey, Brenda Elsey, Thom Rath, Christoph Rosenmuller, and Mauricio Borrero provided intellectual camaraderie during my tenure in the city. My colleagues in the history departments of the University of Vermont and at Macalester College fostered a collegial working environment and also provided critical feedback in writing workshops. I particularly thank Erik Esselstrom, Sean Field, Jim Overfield, Amani Whitfield, and Denise Youngblood at the University of Vermont and Lynn Hudson, Jamie Monson, and Peter Rachleff at Macalester College. I also thank Ramón Rivera-Servera for his ongoing friendship and for his advice at a crucial moment in the project’s development. This book would not have been possible without much financial and institutional support. Vassar College granted me a Dorothy Evans Fellowship for alumni graduate study while the history department at the University of Texas at Austin provided me with a University Fellowship and a Perry Castañeda Fellowship. My research in Ecuador was funded with the support of a Fulbright IIE Fellowship and facilitated by the impressive individuals who ran the Fulbright Commission, including former director Susana Cabeza de Vaca, Ana Lucia Córdoba, Elena Durango, Karen Aguilar, and Mariangela García. The Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar and the FLACSO in Quito provided institutional support while a critical post-doctoral research trip was funded by the Dean’s Fund at the University of Vermont. I wish to thank Mary Helen Quinn, Marilyn Lehman, Anna Marie Manuzza, Kathy Carolin, Kathy Truax, and Herta Pitman for their administrative support as well as the scores of student workers in Austin, Queens, Burlington, and Saint Paul who have xi / Acknowledgments photocopied,scanned,bound,andotherwisesupportedthisbookinmanuscript form, especially Luisa Aya and Ina Rojnic for their help with the index. Multiple archivists, librarians, and private individuals facilitated access to the sources that shaped this book. At the Archivo Nacional del Ecuador, I thank Grecia Vasco Escudero and Margarita...