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Dr. Patrick TimmonsAssistant Professor Spring 2008 Office Hours**Hours subject to change without notice** Monday/Wednesday Spring 2008 CoursesJS 115, Section 1 - Critical Issues & Ideas in
Justice Professor Bio
Patrick Timmons, a native of Bristol, England received his Bachelors in History from the London School of Economics, his Master's in Latin American Studies from Cambridge University, and doctorate in Latin American History in May 2004 from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, The Politics of Punishment and War: Law's Violence during the Mexican Reform, 1840 to 1870 examines the debates and disputes emerging from a proposed abolition of the death penalty in nineteenth-century Mexico. The research on this subject, the first in English or Spanish for nineteenth-century Mexico, illuminates understandings of forgiveness, vengeance, retribution, and impunity at a time when Mexican legislators attempted to rein in the violent potential of state power so as to reinforce the constitutional rights of citizens. The research is significant because it uncovers the first example of Mexico's long-standing ambivalence towards using death as punishment.
Timmons is one of the first historians writing in English to publish on the death penalty in Mexico. The first fruit of this research, a chapter on Mexico's death penalty abolitionism, has appeared in a volume published by Stanford University Press (2005) entitled The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment edited by Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger. With co-editor Ethan Blue of the University of Western Australia, Timmons has edited a special issue for Fall 2006 of the Radical History Review, entitled Punishment and Death.
Timmons is a regular panelist at conferences dedicated to exploring the intractability of violence in human societies. He is a member of the Latin American Studies Association, The American Historical Association, and the Law and Society Association.
Timmons lives with his partner, Jason Lowery, and their two dogs, Malena and Pulque, in Japantown, San Jose. |
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