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Research Interests:
Modern Latin America;
Chile/Southern Cone; Social Inequalities; History of Family/Kinship;
Children; Gender; Law
Courses Taught:
Latin American Civ
II
Women and Gender
in Latin American History
Perspectives on
Power in 20th-Century Latin America
Inequalities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Latin American
History & Society
I also teach in
the Masters in Latin American Studies (MARSLAC) program, housed in
the Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia:
http://ilas.columbia.edu/marslac
Education:
Ph.D.,
Latin American History, Dissertation with Distinction, Yale
University, 2002
M.A.,
International Relations, Yale University, 1997
B.A.,
History, with Honors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Brown
University, 1994
Books
Children of
Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930.
Duke University Press, 2009.
Latin American
Families: A History.
Under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Selected
Articles (in English):
“Degrees of
Bondage?: Children’s Tutelary Servitude in Modern Latin America,” in
Children and Slavery, Joseph Miller, Gwyn Campbell, and Sue
Miers, eds. Forthcoming, Ohio State University Press, 2009.
“Women, Gender, and
Family in Latin America, 1800-2000,” in A Companion to Latin
American History, Thomas Holloway, ed., Blackwell, 2008,
461-479.
“Whither Family
History? A Road Map from Latin America,” American Historical
Review 112:2, April 2007, 439-458.
“From Domestic
Servant to Working-Class Housewife: Poor Women, Family, and Labor in
Chile,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el
Caribe, 16: 1, Enero-Julio 2005, 11-39.
“The Casa de
Huérfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century
Chile.” Journal of Social History 38:2, Winter 2004, 311-340.
“Childhood in
Colonial Latin America,” in Encyclopedia of Children and
Childhood in History and Society, Paula S. Fass, ed., Macmillan,
2003, 532-535.
“Historical
Perspectives on Illegitimacy and Illegitimates in Latin America,” in
Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society,
Tobias Hecht, ed., University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, 72-101.
Recent
Publications (in Spanish):
“The Local Contours
of Transnational Legal Patriarchy: The Chilean Civil Code in
Comparative Perspective,” in Ampliando miradas: Chile y su
historia en un tiempo global. Fernando Purcell and Alfredo
Riquelme, eds. Pontificia Universidad Católica, Forthcoming, 2009.
“Informality,
Extralegality and Children in Latin America, Colonial Period to
Present,” in Historia de la infancia en América Latina, María
Emma Mannarelli and Pablo Rodríguez, eds, Universidad Externado de
Colombia, Bogotá, 2007, 591-613.
“In the Shadow of
the Law? Children in Latin American History and Society.” Revista
de Derechos del Niño, 3/4, 2006, 235-250.
Fellowships,
Honors, and Awards:
President’s
Research Award, Barnard College, 2009
National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellowship, 2006
Arthur and Mary
Wright Dissertation Prize, Yale University, 2003
Whiting Fellowship,
Yale University, 2001-2002
Social Science
Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship,
1999/2000
Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowship, Yale University, 1997-2002
Fulbright
Commission for Educational Exchange, Santiago, Chile, 1995
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