EMPLOYMENT:
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TEACHING::
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United States Foreign Policy in Latin America; Europe and the Americas in the Era of Columbus; History of Latinos in the United States; Development of the US to the mid-19^th Century; Reform and Revolution in Latin America; History of the Caribbean and Central America; History of Latin American Women; History of Brazil; History of Mexico; Latin American Popular Culture; The Encounter: Europeans and Native Americans in the Americas; Graduate Seminars:Women in Cross-cultural Perspectives; Center and Periphery: Encounters and Conflicts in Colonial Latin American History.

GRANTS AND AWARDS:
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National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 1999-2000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 1995.
Visiting Researcher, Wellcome Institute on the History of Medicine, London, 1994.
Sabbatical Leave, Union College, 1993-94.
Rockefeller Foundation Travel Grant, 1991.
Humanities Faculty Development Grants, Union College, 1988-89, 1991, 1994, 1996-97
Thurgood Marshall Award, Union College Academic Opportunity Program (awarded by graduating seniors to faculty member who has been "an inspiration to us"), 1996-98.
Faculty Development Grants, Towson University, 1985, 1986-87.
Henry and Grace Doherty Fellowship for Advanced Study in Latin America, 1975-76.

PUBLICATIONS, Books and articles:
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"’What Comes after Patriarchy?’: Introduction" and "Persistent Patriarchy: Ghost or Reality?" with Pamela Haag, Radical History Review 71 (Spring 1998): 53, 91-95.

"Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).

"Gender: 1821-1910," Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture, Michael S. Werner, ed. (Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn, Publishers, 1997): 571-75.

"Matrimonio, Clase e Identidad: Testimonios Procedentes de la Frontera de la Alta California, 1770-1850," in De Palabra y Obra en el Nuevo Mundo, Vol. IV, Tramas de la identidad, Jorge J. Klor de Alva, Gary G. Gossen, Miguel Leon-Portilla, Manuel Gutierrez-Estevez, eds. (Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1995).

"Gustavo Barroso," Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Culture and Society, Barbara A. Tenenbaum, ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995).

"Cultural Imperialism in Old Republic Rio de Janeiro: the Public Health Project," in Mundialización de la ciencia y cultura nacional, A. Lafuente, A. Elena and M.L. Ortega, eds. (Madrid: Ediciones Doce Calles, 1993): 555-62.

Science, Medicine and Cultural Imperialism, co-edited with Mark Walker, "Cultural Imperialism in Old Republic Rio de Janeiro: the Urban Renewal and Public Health Project," 95-119, in this volume. (New York & London: St. Martin’s and Macmillan Press, 1991).

"’Living Worse and Costing More’: Resistance and Riot in Rio de Janeiro, 1890-1917," Journal of Latin American Studies (May 1989): 241-66.

"In Search of the Afro-American ‘Eldorado’: Attempts by North American Blacks to enter Brazil in the 1920s," with Gregory A. Pirio, Luso-Brazilian Review (Summer 1988): 85-110.

"’Civilizing’ Rio de Janeiro: Public Health and the Rio of 1904," Journal of Social History (December 1986): 301-22.

"The Transition to Capitalism in Brazil: Notes on a Third Road," Latin American Perspectives (Summer 1978):

BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER WRITINGS:
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Review of The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box by John D. French and Daniel James, eds., Journal of Social History (Fall 1999).

Web page design and "master": Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, http://www-berks.aas.duke.edu

Review of The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988 by Anthony W. Pereira, Luso-Brazilian Review (Winter 1998).

Review of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964 by Barbara Weinstein, International Labor and Working-Class History (Fall 1998).

Review of Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940, by Susan Besse, The Historian (Summer 1998).

Review of Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America, 1765-1910, edited by Silvia Arrom and Servando Ortoll, Journal of Latin American Studies (May 1997).

Review of California in 1792: A Spanish Naval Visit by Donald C. Cutter, Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1997).

Review of Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 by Camille Guerin-Gonzales, Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996).

Review essay "Women in Latin America," of Compañeras: Voices from the Latin American Women’s Movement; Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History; Mujeres e História en el Uruguay; and Women in Brazil for Gender & History (November 1996): 487-90.

Review of Missionaries of Science: the Rockefeller Foundation in Latin America, edited by Marcos Cueto, Hispanic American Historical Review (August 1995).

Public History Review, "Latin American Art and MOMA" with Andor Skotnes, Radical History Review 58 (1994): 182-87.

"Latin American Labor," Editor and Introduction with Susan Besse and Marjorie Murphy, Radical History Review 58 (1994).

Review of "The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America by Nancy Leys Stepan, ISIS 84:8 (1993).

"500 Years," Editor and Introduction with Margaret Hunt, Radical History Review 53 (1992).

"Reflections on the War," Radical History Review 50 (1991).

Review of The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 edited by Richard Graham, Luso-Brazilian Review (Winter 1991).

Review of Getulio: uma historia oral by Valentina da Rocha Lima, et.al., International Journal of Oral History (November 1987).

Review essay "Sandinistas and ‘Contras’ in Nicaragua: A Review Essay of Four Books of Interviews," International Journal of Oral History (February 1986).

PAPERS, TALKS AND PANELS (partial list):
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"Community Riots in Urban Areas of the United States and Latin America." Guest lecturer Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board, Mumbai University, Mumbai (Bombay) India. (Lectures at 4 colleges of the Mumbai University system, December 6-12, 1998.)

"Cuba: What difference will the Pope make?" Report on 2^nd International Women’s Studies Conference in Havana: ‘On the Threshold of the 21^st Century’, Capital District International Forum, Troy, NY (April 2, 1998).

"The Allocation of Urban Space: Urban Development in Rio", Brazil Seminar, Columbia University, NY (December 11, 1997).

"Teaching Comparative Labor History," Commentator, Social Science History Conference, Washington, DC (October 16-19, 1997).

"The Contested Terrain of Public Space: Past, Present and Future," Invited speaker, Hall Center for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence (October 24, 1996).

"Latin American History: What’s In? What’s Out?" Public talk, University of Kansas, Lawrence (October 24, 1996).

"Public Space, but not for the Public: Rio de Janeiro in the early 20^th Century," Social Science History Conference, New Orleans (October 10-12, 1996).

"Gender and Nation in 20^th Century Brazil," Commentator, Brazilian Studies Association Meeting, Kings College, Cambridge, UK (September 7-10, 1996).

"Tensions between Nationalism and Internationalism", Chair and commentator, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Chapel Hill, NC (June 7-9, 1996).

"Constructing a Spanish Identity on the Alta California Frontier, 1770-1850," American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Annual Meeting, Kihei, Hawaii (August 4-7, 1995).

"Supplying the Latin American Survey Course: Textbooks and Materials for the 1990s’ College Classroom," Roundtable co-chair. Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Chicago (January 1995).

"Marriage, Class and Identity on the Alta California Frontier, 1779-1850," IX Conference of Mexican, United States and Canadian Historians, Mexico City, DF (October 27-29, 1994).

"Interrogating the Evidence in Latin America," Paper for E.P. Thompson and the Uses of History: A History Workshop Conference, London (July 8-9, 1994).

"Marriage and Social Identity on the Alta California Frontier, 1769-1850," Invited talk for the Women’s History Program, New York University (March 24, 1994).

"Marriage and Ethnic Identity: Lives on the Mexican Frontier, 1770-1850," Invited talk for Upton Center of Women’s Studies Forum, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY (November 4, 1993).

"Is Marxism still a useful tool of analysis for the history of women?" Roundtable, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College (June 11-13,, 1993).

"Marriage, Class and Identity: Testimony for the Alta California Frontier, 1770-1850," Paper for Conference on Listening to New Voices: Discourse and the Plurality of Meaning in the Americas, 1492-1992, SUNY-Albany (November 1-4, 1992).

"The State and Political Power in Comparative Perspective: Brazil and Chile in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries," Discussant, Latin American Studies Association Congress, Los Angeles (September 24-27, 1992).

"Families, Children and Poverty in Guatemala and Brazil," Commentator, Latin American Labor History Conference, SUNY-Stony Brook (April 10-11, 1992).

"500 Years Since Columbus: The Impact of the Encounter on Native Americans, Africans and Europeans," Russell Sage College, Troy, NY (April 14, 1992).

"Marriage and Social Identity in Alta California, Mexico, 1770-1850," Invited speaker, Institute of Mesoamerican Studies, SUNY-Albany (November 8, 1991).

"Cultural Imperialism in Rio de Janeiro during the Old Republic," International Conference on Science, Discovery and the Colonial World, Madrid, Spain (June 25-28, 1991).

"Mexican Culture and Family on the Alta California Frontier, 1769-1850," Women’s Studies Speakers Series, Union College (February 1991).

"’Civilizing Rio’: British Imperialism and the Public Health Campaign, 1890-1910," Annual meeting, American Historial Association, Cincinnati (December 1988).

"A Dream Denied: Attempted Black Migration from the US to Brazil in the 1920s," Annual meeting, Organization of American Historians, Reno (March-April 1988).

"’By their abnegation and prayer’: Women and Religion in Latin American History," Latin American Studies Association Congress, New Orleans (March 1988).

"In Memory of Harvey Goldberg," Organizer and moderator, Memorial service to honor Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin Professor of History, New York (October 17, 1987).

"Black Migration and Comparative Race Relations: the United States and Brazil in the 1920s," Brazil Seminar, Columbia University, New York (January 1987).

"Historical Perspectives on Liberation Theology," Commentator, International Conference on Liberation Theology, Vancouver, BC (February 1986).

"Trabalhadores urbanos no Rio de Janeiro, 1890-1920," Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil (September 1976). Published in Revista de Ciencias Sociais (November 1976).

WORKS IN PROGRESS:
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Constructing Identities: Settlement and Marriage on the Alta California Frontier, 1769-1860 (book).

Latin American History: A Historiographical Survey, 1965-1996, with Marshall Eakin.

NATIONAL AND COLLEGE COMMITTEES:
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Co-chair of Program Committee, Eleventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Rochester (June 1999).

Program Committee, Tenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (June 1996).

Program Committee, Latin American Studies Association XVIII International Congress, Atlanta (April 1994).

Chair, CLAH Committee on Teaching and Teaching Materials (1993-97), member of committee (1986-92, 98).

Selection Committee, James R. Scobie Prize for Dissertation Research, CLAH (1995-97). Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Union College (1996-present), member 1987-96.

Multicultural Awareness Group, Union College (1993-present).