Email: scardavm@mailbox.sc.edu  
Office: 142 Gambrell Hall
Phone: 803-777-7611
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Professor Scardaville teaches an introductory survey of Latin American history, undergraduate courses on colonial Latin America and Mexico, a senior seminar on human rights in Latin America, and graduate courses on various aspects of Mexican and Latin American history. His most recent publications include “Justice by Paperwork: A Day in the Life of a Court Scribe in Bourbon Mexico City,” “Los procesos judiciales y la autoridad del Estado: reflexiones en torno a la administración de la justicia criminal y la legitimidad en la ciudad de México, desde finales de la Colonia, hasta principios del México independiente,” “Trabajadores, grupo doméstico y supervivencia durante el periodo colonial tardío en la Ciudad de México, o ‘La familia pequeña no vive major.

With support of a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2003, I am completing a book on "The Restrained Leviathan: Public Order and the Judicial State in Mexico City, 1737-1836," which explores the role that criminal law played in state formation in the Mexican capital from the late colonial to the early national periods.

I also am an affiliate of Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies, a new entity at USC that promotes and coordinates multi-disciplinary research related to Latinos in South Carolina and the Southeast.