Dr. Peter Soland
Dr. Peter Soland
Assistant ProfessorHistory, Humanities, and LanguagesBiography
Peter Soland is a historian of modern Latin America, technology, and culture. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, in 2016. His first book, Mexican Icarus: Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) examined the development of aviation in Mexico. His working monograph, tentatively titled "The Radiance of Tlatelolco: Politics, Culture, and Nuclear Technology in Mexico and Argentina," is a comparative analysis of nuclear technology in Mexico and Argentina. He is a 2024-2025 Council for American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellow, and has been a Linda Hall Library Research Fellow and an Arizona Historical Society Research Fellow.
Degrees Earned
Ph.D., University of Arizona
M.A., University of Arizona
B.S., Northern Arizona University
Courses Taught
History of Mexico
History of the Cold War in Latin America and the Caribbean
US History since 1877
US History Graduate Seminar (History of Technology and Culture in the US-Mexican Borderlands)
Experience Qualifications
Monographs
Mexican Icarus: Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity, 1928–1960. Pittsburgh, PA. The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. ISBN 0-8229-4760-9
Journal Articles
"Cover Essay: La Gente, Controllers of the Universe." Technology and Culture 65 no. 2 (April, 2024): pp. 437-445.
"The Miracle (and Mirage) of Mexican Flight: Aviation Development in Mexico, during and after World War II." Journal of Transport History 40:1 (June 2019), 25-43. DOI: 0.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.827
Book Chapters
"Flying Machines as a Measure of Mexico: National Reconstruction, the Cultural Revolution, and the Maturation of Mexico's National Aviation Program, 1921–1945." In Technocratic Visions: Engineering, Technology, and Society in Mexico. Edited by J. Justin Castro and James A. Garza. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. – Honorable Mention for the Maurice Dumas Prize, International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
"Concepciones de modernidad e ideales de ciudadania: El patrimonio documental y tecnologico de la aviacion en San Luis Potosí despues de la revolucion." In Paisajes culturales y patrimonio en el Centro Norte de México, siglos XVII al XX. Edited by Carlos Rubén Ruíz Medrano, Carlos Alberto Roque Puento, Luís Edgardo Coronado Güel. Mexico, San Luis Potosí: Colegio San Luis Potosí, 2014.