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Nara Milanich
Assistant Professor of History
Nara Milanich, assistant professor of history, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2004. She teaches such courses as "Inequalities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Latin American History and Society," "Women and Gender in Latin American History," "Modern Latin American History," and "Families in Latin American History." She also teaches in the new Masters in Latin American Studies (MARSLAC) at Columbia.
Professor Milanich's scholarly interests include modern Latin America (especially Chile), comparative history of the family, legal history, childhood, gender, and state formation.
Her research and scholarship have been supported by the Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
During her graduate studies at Yale she received such fellowships as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, the Richard J. Franke Fellowship, the Henry Hart Rice Research Fellowship, and the Whiting Fellowship.
Professor Milanich writes and publishes in both Spanish and English.
Selected Publications
Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 (Duke University Press, 2009)
"Family Matters: The Historiography of Latin American Families," in Oxford Handbook of Latin American History, ed. J. Moya (Oxford, forthcoming 2010)
“Degrees of Bondage: Children’s Tutelary Servitude in Modern Latin America,” in Children and Slavery, Joseph Miller, Gwyn Campbell, and Sue Miers, eds. (Ohio State University Press, forthcoming 2010)
"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, ed. F. Purcell and A. Riquelme (Pontificia Universidad Católica, 2008 forthcoming)
"Women, Gender, and Family in Latin America, 1800-2000," in A Companion to Latin American History, ed. T. Holloway (Blackwell, 2008)
"Whither Family History? A Road Map from Latin America," American Historical Review 112 (2007)
"Informality, Extralegality, and Children in Latin America, Colonial Period to Present," in Historia de la infancia en América Latina, ed. M. E. Mannarelli and P. Rodríguez (Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, 2007)
"In the Shadow of the Law? Children in Latin American History and Society," in Revista de Derechos del Niño (2006)
"From Domestic Servant to Working-Class Housewife: Poor Women, Family, and Labor in Chile," Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 16 (2005)
"The Casa de Huérfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile," Journal of Social History 38 (2004)
"Childhood in Colonial Latin America," in Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society, ed. P. S. Fass (Macmillan, 2003)
"Historical Perspectives on Illegitimacy and Illegitimates in Latin America," in Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society, ed. T. Hecht (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)
"The Children of Providence: Abandonment as Circulation in Nineteenth-Century Chile," in Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades (Winter 2001)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Brown University
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
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Latin American history