I am currently finishing a book manuscript, To Govern is to Educate: Modeling Racial Education in Modern Chile (1879-1920), which interrogates the relationship between racial formation and masculinity in the aftermath of the Chilean republic’s colonization of native Mapuche lands and people. To Govern is to Educate compares three educational institutions in the Araucanía in southern Chile – the rural indigenous Catholic mission schools, public high schools, and German schools in the city of Temuco – in conversation with the government’s state-building policies to populate the territory with European settlers. The Chilean state’s plan to Chileanize and Europeanize Araucanía took place simultaneously with the creation of a national education curriculum modeled after Prussian pedagogical approaches. In turn, I interrogate how school curriculum and settler policies informed regional understandings about race observed in school and government documents, laws, and intellectual debates. To Govern is to Educate demonstrates that the Chilean modern education curriculum instilled ideas about race and citizen, defining Chilean race politics for the twentieth century.

I have been following and researching the rise of the new feminist movement in Argentina since 2003. This work will the subject of my second book project. Image above captures the first time that the green kerchief was handed out at the Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres in Rosario, Argentina by the NGO Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir. Image by Aindy published on Indymedia Argentina in 2003.

I have been following the rise of new social movements in Chile since the return to democracy. This area of research that includes the student movement, the feminist movement, and the 2019 social uprising has become the bulk of my public scholarship.

Please see the “Public Scholarship” section (top right) for article links.

This digital humanities research project seeks to understand the historical origins of the gender-neutral “x” in Argentina. Professor Romina A. Green Rioja’s previous research placed the emergence of the gender-neutral “x” (that later evolved into the “e”) in the post-2001 social movements in Argentina. The project’s focus was the Indymedia site, a media activist website created in 1999 to document the World Trade Organization Protests in Seattle, Washington. In early 2001, activists founded Indymedia Argentina to document protests and social movements and connect with anti-globalization activists worldwide. The earliest post using the gender-neutral x was posted in early 2003 regarding the garment factory workers of Brukman in Buenos Aires. (site)