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Research Interests:
Modern Latin
America; Chile/Southern Cone; Gender; History of Family; Children;
Legal History
Courses Taught:
Latin American Civ
II
Women and Gender
in Latin American History
Perspectives on
Power in 20th-Century Latin America
Reproducing
Inequalities: Families in Latin American History
Inequalities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Latin American
History & Society
Education:
Ph.D., Latin American History, Dissertation with
Distinction, Yale University, 2002
Dissertation:
The Children of Fate: Families, Class and the State in Chile,
1857-1930
M.A., International Relations, Yale University, 1997
B.A., History, with Honors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa,
Brown University, 1994
Publications (in English):
The Children
of Fate: Families, Class, and the State in Chile, 1800-1930.
Under contract with Duke University Press.
“Women and
Gender in Latin America, 1800-2000,” in The Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Thomas Holloway, ed.,
Blackwell, forthcoming, 2006.
“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.
Publications (in Spanish):
“In the Shadow of the Law? Children in Latin American History
and Society.”
Revista de Derechos del Niño,
forthcoming, 2006.
“Historical Perspectives on Illegitimacy and Illegitimate Children
in Latin America.” Revista de Derechos del Niño 2, 2003,
225-249.
“The Children of Providence: Abandonment as Circulation in
Nineteenth-Century Chile,” Revista de Historia Social y de las
Mentalidades, Winter 2001, 79-100.
“Infanticide in Rural Nineteenth-Century Chile,” Dimensión
Histórica de Chile 13/14, 1997/8, 63-82.
“Children of Fate:
Infant Life and Death in Elite Discourse and Popular Practice,”
Contribuciones Científicas y Tecnológicas 114, November, 1996,
79-92.
Book Reviews:
Domingos Abreu, No Bico da Cegonha. Histórias de Adoção e da
Adoção Internacional no Brasil. Book review, Luso-Brazilian
Review, forthcoming, 2006.
Guiomar Dueñas Vargas, Los hijos del pecado: ilegitimidad y vida
familiar en la Santafé de Bogotá colonial, Book review,
Hispanic American Historical Review 80:2, May 2000, 357-9.
Fellowships, Honors, and Awards:
National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellowship, 2006
National Endowment
for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2005
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
Henry Hart Rice
Research Fellowship, Yale University, 1999-2000
Richard J. Franke
Fellowship, Yale University, 1998-2001
Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowship, Yale University, 1997-2002
University
Fellowship, Yale University, 1995-1997
Fulbright
Commission for Educational Exchange, Santiago, Chile, 1995
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