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Latin American History
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Fordham offers broad geographic, thematic, and chronological coverage of Latin American History. Professors Lindo-Fuentes, Penry, Rivera-Giusti and Schmidt-Nowara offer courses on Central America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Andes, Spain and the Latina/o experience in the U.S. Their interests include U.S.-Latin American relations, labor, history of indigenous peoples, slavery, colonial political philosophy, nationalism, development, gender and race relations, immigration and ethnicity and state formation. They approach the study of Latin America through a variety of methods, from political economy to ethnohistory. They are committed to interdisciplinary work.
Students will also benefit from graduate offerings through Fordham’s Latin American & Latino Studies Institute (LALSI), which brings together scholars and students from Art History, Literature, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, Psychology, Theology, and African and African American Studies.
Faculty
Héctor Lindo-Fuentes
Elizabeth S. Penry
Ivette Rivera-Giusti
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
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News
Dr. Irma Watkins-Owens (African and African American Studies) and Dr. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (History) organized a one day conference entitled, "The Atlantic World In The Era of British Slave Trade Abolition"
The conference took place Friday October 19, 2007, 9:30-4:00, at Fordham Law School
Recent Faculty Books
Hector Lindo -Fuentes, co-author, Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory. University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. |
The Fordham University Libraries have an excellent collection of works on Latin America and an outstanding array of electronic sources.
Fordham’s New York City location offers a wealth of resources for the specialist in Latin American history:
- General library resources such as the rich collections of the New York Public Library
- Specialized collections available at institutions such as the Hispanic Society, the New York Historical Society and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Frequent symposia and lectures at Fordham and other local universities
- Cultural activities at the Americas Society and the major museums, concert houses, theaters and movie theaters
Student News
Rosemary Ramsey, who completed the MA in Latin American History in 2006 with a thesis on the colonial production of cochineal (an insect from which red dye is extracted), now works for a non-governmental organization in El Salvador called Voices on the Border. Rosemary lives in a small community of ex-combatants of the ERP faction of the FMLN, who were refugees repatriated from Honduras. Part of her work includes coordination of projects with other communities of former refugees. In the photo, Rosemary works to fill the biodegestor which traps methane gas to use for cooking. |
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From Our Archives
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Esteban Bellan was the first Cuban and the first Latin American to play major league baseball. Bellan, who after playing in the United States, became one of Cuba's first great baseball player-managers, learned how to play the game while he was a student at Fordham University from 1863-1868. During his time at Fordham, Bellan played for the newly created Fordham Rose Hill Baseball Club. Founded in the late 1850's, the Fordham Rose Hills played the first ever nine-man team college baseball game in the United States against St. Francis Xavier College on November 3, 1859. |
Affiliated Programs
LALSI
The Latin American and Latino Studies Institute brings together one of the most productive and academically engaged groups on campus. It offers a graduate certificate and a Master’s Degree. It provides an intellectual home for both students and faculty interested in Latin America and in the Latino populations in the United States.
It also acts as clearinghouse for information, organizes conferences, invites distinguished scholars to the University, sponsors film series, and advises students who are seeking to study in Latin America or who are interested in attaining internships in related fields.
Department of African and African American Studies
The Department of African and African American Studies is both an academic unit and a community comprised of students and faculty interested in the interdisciplinary study of Africa and its diaspora.
It places strong emphasis on preparing students for graduate and professional study, and careers in public or community work.
Associated Faculty
Hugo Benavides, Associate Professor of Anthropology. Graduate courses: National Identity and Development Interdisciplinary Culture
Susan Berger, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, Co-Director, Women's Studies. Political economy of Development.
Norma Fuentes Mayorga, * Assistant Professor of Sociology. Sociology of New Minorities in the U.S.
Greta Gilbertson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. Gender, Ethnicity, and Migration
Javier Jiménez Belmonte, Assistant Professor of Spanish. Early Modern Spanish literature, Sahagun.
Michael Lee, Assistant Professor of Theology. Theology of Liberation
Barbara Mundy, Assoc. Professor of Art History, Chair, Art History and Music. Colonial Latin American Art History
Clara Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies. Race and Ethnicity in the Media
Orlando Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology. Law and Society; Hispanic Policy Issues; Polemics of Crime Control
Janet Sternberg, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Communications and;Media Studies
Irma Watkins Owens, Professor of African and African American Studies. African Diaspora. Migration experiences of southern African American and Caribbean women.
Recent Courses
Golden Age Spain and its American Empire
Gender and the Latin American City
Atlantic Slavery
Latinos/as and U.S. History
Brazil and the World
Education and the State in Latin America
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March 11, 2008 1:11 PM
, Any questions about the History webpage can be sent to aacosta@fordham.edu.
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