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Office: 138 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.5683
E-Mail: amacpher@brockport.edu  

Specialization

  • Latin American and Caribbean History

Education

  • PhD University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1998
  • MA University of Wisconsin - Madison, December 1992
  • BA Queen’s University (Honors) - Kingston, Ontario, May 1990
    History and Political Studies  

 

Awards and Honors

  • 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).

 

Courses Taught

  • 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

 

Publications

  • * 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).

 

Papers

  • 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.”

 

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