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Education





Ph.D.   University of California, Davis, 2006, History

Dissertation: “Motherhood as National Service: Race, Class and Public Health Policy in Brazil, 1930-1945” Directed by Dr. Thomas Holloway

M.A.    San Francisco State University, 1999, History

B.A.    San Francisco State University, 1996, History

Blog Posts

    Publications





    Review of Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil by Benjamin A. Cowan. Journal of the History of Sexuality 27:3 (2018): 480-481.

    “Gender, Space, and the Violence of the Everyday in Parque Industrial” In Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels: Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, December, 2018.

    Review of The Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Culture, 1900-2015 by Massimiliano Giono. ARLIS/NA Reviews, https://www.arlisna.org/publications/reviews/919-the-great-mother-women-maternity-and-power-in-art-and-visual-culture-1900-2015.

    Review of The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950 by Diego Armus. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 3 (2012): 507-508.

    “To Educate and Protect: Politicians, Nurses and Poor Women in Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1945.” Revista de Historia Iberoamericana 3, no. 2 (2010): 22-46.

    Review of From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil, 1825-1900 by Dale Torston Graden. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 9, no.1 (2008).

    Do We Really Need a Guggenheim in Rio?”  Catalytic Communities – CatComm.

    http://www.comcat.org/english/cgi-bin/mural.asp, 2004.

    Sal do Samba: A Musical Adventure and Popular Resistance.” Catalytic Communities – CatComm. http://www.comcat.org/english/cgi-bin/mural.asp, 2004.

     

    Memberships





    American Historical Association (AHA)

    Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)

    Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

    Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)

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