Dr.
Anne S. Macpherson
Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
Tel: (585) 395-5683, Fax: (585) 395-2620
Office: 138 Albert W. Brown Building
E-Mail: amacpher@brockport.edu
- PhD University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1998
Latin American and Caribbean History
- MA University of Wisconsin - Madison, December 1992
- BA Queen’s University (Honors) - Kingston, Ontario, May 1990
History and Political Studies
- United University Professionals Drescher Pre-Tenure Leave, 2002.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
Award (Government of Canada), 1993-94.
- University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, 1992-93.
- Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990-92.
- Commonwealth Scholarship to the University of the West Indies in
Mona, Jamaica, 1990 (declined).
- The Modern World
- Colonial Latin America
- Modern Latin America
- The Modern Caribbean (crosslisted with African and African-American
Studies)
- Women and Gender in Latin-American and Caribbean History
- crosslisted with Women's Studies.
- Latin America Regional Seminar
- Research in World History
- * Never a Coward Woman: The Gender Politics of Colonial Reform and Nationalist Struggle in Belize, 1912-1982 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006). [Forthcoming]
- "Colonial Matriarchs: Garveyism, Maternalism, and Belize's Black
Cross Nurses, 1920-1952," Gender and History
(November 2003).
- Citizens vs. Clients: Workingwomen and Colonial Reform in Puerto Rico
and Belize, 1932-1945," Journal of Latin American Studies, vol.35
no.2 (May 2003).
- Co-editor with Nancy Applebaum and Karin Rosemblatt, Race and Nation
in Modern Latin America, (University of North Carolina Press, 2003.).
- "Imagining the Colonial Nation: Gender, Race, and Middle Class Politics
in Belize, 1888-98," in above anthology.
- “Viragoes, Victims, and Volunteers: Female Creole Political Cultures
in 19th-century Belize,” in Michael D. Phillips, ed. Belize: Selected
Proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Conference (Lanham,
MD: University Press of America, 1996).
- Editor, Backtalking Belize: Speeches and Writings of Assad Shoman,
1963-1995 (Belize: Angelus Press, 1995).
| Recent Conference Papers and Other Presentations
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- Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, 28 March 2003: "Racialized
Constructions of Nation in the British Caribbean and on Central America's
Caribbean Coast," (part of round table on "Race and Nation
in the Modern America's")
- Berkshire Conference on Women's History, University of Connecticut
at Storrs, 6-9 June 2002: "On the Eve of Nationalism: Gender, Race
and Labor in Belize a Century after Emancipation" (Part of panel
titled, "Empire, Freedom, Identity: Gender and Race in the Modern
Caribbean")
- American Society for Ethnohistory 21st Annual Meeting, Tucson, October
20, 2001: Chair and Discussant for panel titled "Icons and Others:
The Contradictory Role of Ethnicity in Latin American Nation-State Formation"
- Pairing Empires: Britian and America 1857-1947 Conference, Johns Hopkins
University, 10-12 November 2000: "Colonial Reform, Colonial Hegemony:
Gender and Labor in Belize and Puerto Rico, 1932-1945"
- Paradigms in World History Conference, Binghamton University, 3-4,
March 2000: “Gender and World History from the Caribbean."
- Rochester, NY, PBS station’s Spanish-language program, Qué
Pasa Rochester, August 13 1999: featured guest speaker on the history
of the Afro-Cuban religion Santería.
- Studies in National and International Development Series, Queen’s
University, February 1999 : “Gendered Developmentalism in Colonial and
Post-Colonial Belize.”
- Engaging Walter Rodney’s Legacies Conference: Historiography, Social
Movements and African Diaspora, Binghamton University, November 1998:
“Gender Tension and Alliance in Multicultural Anti-colonialism: Belize
in the 1930s and 1950s.”
