FALL 2022 AND 2023

This course surveys the history of Latin America from 1450 to the early 1800s. It examines the historical processes and the impact that Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule had on Indigenous, Black, and Asian populations.

FALL 2022

The course examines the main ideas and political debates regarding gender equality and sexual freedom in modern Latin America. Students will study key academic works about the political and social movements at the center of those historical debates. This includes differences between women’s equality and women’s liberation movements, and how and why social interpretations of feminism shifted in the 20th century.

WINTER 2022 AND 2023

The course will explore the histories of thirty-three countries both as case studies and in a broader context. The class materials will focus on critical and seminal events that characterized Latin America since independence from Spain.

WINTER 2023

Historical memory studies emerged in the 20th century as a method to understand collective identities and experiences, and, later, as an avenue to articulate collective and historical trauma. This class will examine the complex role of historical memory in Latin America through the concepts of collective, official, counter, and living memory, as well as memory battles and historical trauma.

WINTER 2024

Latin American society is a diverse population characterized by a variety and combinations of racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, religious, regional, and national identities. Introduction to Latin American Cultures examines a breadth of cultural expressions and lived experiences that make up Latin American and Caribbean societies. This course will present a historical and broad overview of Latin American societies focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries.

FALL 2023

This seminar will examine the ways in which nation-states constructed Indianness or indigeneity in the 19th century and early 20th through the institution of the modern school. The course takes a comparative approach to identify policy patterns and shared perspectives between nations, placing the consolidation of the nation state alongside the globalization of colonial ideology. Case studies include North America, Latin America, Australia, Sweden, and Japan. (syllabus coming)