Florencia Mallon
Professor

eMail: femallon@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-1822
Office: 5125 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5027 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: TBA

Education: PhD: Yale; MA: Yale; BA: Harvard

Bio Sketch:

My specializations are Modern Latin America; gender, ethnicity and class; and indigenous history.

My Research and Teaching Interests include Latin American History, 19th and 20th centuries, especially Mexico, Peru, and Chile. Agrarian History, social movements, popular culture. Social theory (gender, state formation, postmodern and postmarxist approaches, marxism). Ethnicity, gender, and colonialism; oral history and testimonial literature; Native-state relations.

Selected Publications:

• ABarbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965-1974@ in Matthew C. Gutmann (ed.), Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 179-215.
• When a Flower Is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist. Editor and Translator. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
• Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 135 - Comparative World History
• History 242 - Modern Latin America
• History 441 - Revolution and Conflict in Modern Latin America
• History 557 - Mexican Revolution
• History 573 - Africa, Asia, or Latin America
• History 574 - Studies in World History

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History

Graduate Courses:

• History 730 - Proseminar in Latin American History
• History 753 - Seminar in comparative World History - Topics: "Gender, Power, and Rebellion "
• History 829 - Research Seminar in Latin American History
• History 982 - Seminar in Latin American Area - Topics: "The Ninteenth Century"; "Narrating Native Histories"