Dr. Antonio Sotomayor, Ph.D.

Books

• Sotomayor, Antonio. Religious Games: The YMCA, Sport, and Imperial Statecraft in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1940s. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (under contract).

• Sotomayor, Antonio and Daniel Arbino, editors. Voicing the Past: Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Institutions in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean. Papers of the 67th Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Bogotá, Colombia, May 2-6, 2022. (in press). 

• Sotomayor, Antonio. La colonia soberana: Deportes olímpicos, identidad nacional y política internacional. Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), 2020. 

• Sotomayor, Antonio and César R. Torres, editors. Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean. Sports, Culture, and Society Series. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 2020. Finalist in the 2021 Outstanding Anthology Award from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH).

• Sotomayor, Antonio. The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Winner of SALALM's 2017 José Toribio Medina Book Award.

 

Articles

• Sotomayor, Antonio. “Blood and Paper: Connections Between the Sotomayor, González de la Cruz, Soto de las Cuevas, and Lugo Sotomayor from Puerto Rico from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries.” Journal of Genetic Genealogy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2022): 1-33.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. “Sangre y papel: Conexiones entre las familias Sotomayor, González de la Cruz y Soto de las Cuevas de Puerto Rico, siglos XVI al XVIII." HEREDITAS: Revista de Genealogía Puertorriqueña, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2022): 37-67.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. “El legajo 2295: Sublevación y parentelas en Puerto Rico a comienzos del siglo XVIII.” HEREDITAS: Revista de Genealogía Puertorriqueña, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021): 54-76.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. “Dispensa, endogamia y milicia: Historia social para la genealogía de algunas familias de Aguada, Puerto Rico. Siglos XVII y XVIII.” HEREDITAS: Revista de Genealogía Puertorriqueña Vol. 22, No. 1 (2021): 91-119.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. “Sports in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In Ben Vinson, editor. Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, April 22, 2020.  

• ​Sotomayor, Antonio de. "Cartas para la historia: El epistolario de los Carrillo de Albornoz y Bravo de Lagunas, condes de Montemar, en el ocaso del imperio español en América, 1761-1799." Revista de Historia de América Vol. 158 (enero-julio 2020): 404-420.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. “Los Juegos del dictador: Rafael Trujillo, el centenario dominicano y la solidaridad antillana durante los Juegos Interantillanos de 1944.” Hispania Nova Vol. 17 (2019): 392-425.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. "Genetic Genealogy for the Study of Puerto Rican, Spanish, and Portuguese Family History: Lessons from the Sotomayor, Colón, and Pereira." Journal of Genealogy and Family History Vol. 3, No. 1 (2019): 1-20.

• Sotomayor, Antonio de. "Linajes encontrados: Genealogía genética para la historia familiar en Puerto Rico, España y Portugal a través de los Sotomayor, Colón y Pereira." HEREDITAS: Revista de Genealogía Puertorriqueña Vol. 19, No. 2 (2018): 79-112.  

• Sotomayor, Antonio. "The Triangle of Empire: Sport, Religion, and Imperialism in Puerto Rico’s YMCA, 1898-1926." The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History Vol. 74, No. 4 (October 2017): 481-512.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. "Caribbean Soccer: Hispanoamericanismo and the Identity Politics of Fútbol in Puerto Rico,1898-1920s." The Latin Americanist Vol. 61, No. 2 (June 2017): 193-224.

• Sotomayor, Antonio, "Colonial Olympism: Puerto Rico and Jamaica’s Olympic Movement in Pan‐American Sport, 1930 to the 1950s," in “Historicizing the Pan-American Games,” ed. César Torres and Bruce Kidd, special issue, The International Journal of the History of Sport Vol. 33, No. 1-2 (2016): 84-104.

• Sotomayor, Antonio, "Operation Sport: “Puerto Rico’s Recreational and Political Consolidation in an Age of Progress.” Journal of Sport History Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2015): 59-86.

• Sotomayor, Antonio, “Un parque para cada pueblo: Julio Enrique Monagas and the Politics of Sport and Recreation in Puerto Rico during the 1940s.” Caribbean Studies Vol. 42, No. 2 (July-December 2014): 3-40.

• Sotomayor, Antonio, "“Patron Saint Festivities, Politics, and Culture: Celebrating the Colonial Nation in San Germán, Puerto Rico, 1950s.” CENTRO Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2008): 100-125.

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Book Chapters

• Sotomayor, Antonio and Evelise Amgarten Quitzau. "Hispanophone and Lusophone America and the Caribbean." In Malcolm MacLean and Fiona Skillen, editors. The Cambridge History of Sport. New York: Cambridge University Press (in preparation).

• Sotomayor, Antonio. "The Nationalist Movement and the Struggle for Freedom in Puerto Rico’s Olympic Sport." In Antonio Sotomayor and Cesar R. Torres, editors. Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean. Sports, Culture, and Society Series. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 2020, 73-94.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. "Colonial Olympism: Puerto Rico and Jamaica’s Olympic Movement in Pan‐American Sport, 1930 to the 1950s." In Bruce Kidd and César Torres, editors, Historicizing the Pan-American Games. Series: Sport in the Global Society – Historical Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2016, 82-102.

• Sotomayor, Antonio. "Challenges and Alternatives to Caribbean Family History and Genealogy: Archives and Sources in Puerto Rico." In Roberto Delgadillo, editor, Who are We Really?: Latin American Family, Local and Micro-Regional Histories and Their Impact on Understanding Ourselves. Papers of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. Salt Lake City, University of Utah, 2014. New Orleans, LA: SALALM Secretariat, Latin American Library, Tulane University (forthcoming 2016).

• Sotomayor, Antonio. “The Cold War Games of a Colonial Latin American Nation: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966.” In Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns, editors, Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014, 217-249.