Associate Professor of History
Illinois Institute of technology
Chicago, Illinois
power@iit.edu
University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Ph.D., Latin American History, 1997; Distinction on Ph.D. exams and dissertation; Dissertation: Right-Wing Women and Chilean Politics, 1964-1973 Minors: Women's History, Race Relations in the Americas, Indigenous History of the AmericasSan Francisco State University, San Francisco
M.A. Latin American History, 1979; Masters thesis: Women and the
Left in Chile Minor: Film Studies
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Julia Beveridge Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, March 2004
Research Grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center, March 2003
Summer Research Award, Department of Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology, June 2002
Scholar Access Grant, Wisconsin International Outreach, May 1998
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Fine Arts and Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 1998
Illinois Institute of Technology, Pre and Postdoctoral Mellon Fellowships, Department of Humanities, 1995 - 1997
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1995 - 1996
University of Illinois at Chicago, Dissertation Fellowship, September 1994 - August 1995
Organization of American States, Research Fellowship, September 1993- August 1994
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies, February 1994
Finalist, CCWHP/CGWH Berkshire Women's Studies Forum, March 1993 and March 1994
TEACHING FIELDS
Latin American history; U.S. History; women's history; gender and women’s studies; comparative slavery; race relations in the Americas; world history; film studies; and conservative movements.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
2004-present Associate Professor; 2000-2004 Assistant Professor; 1997-2000 Visiting Assistant Professor; 1995-1997 Pre and Postdoctoral Mellon Fellow; Modern Latin American History; Women in U.S. History 1840-1990; Modern World History; Industrial Culture; Latin American Film and History; Gender and Latin American History; Global Women’s History, Oral History of Pilgrim Baptist Church IPRO; Mock Trial IPRO.
Books
Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973. Penn State University Press, 2002.
Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists around the World, co-edited with Paola Bacchetta. Routledge Press, 2002.
Articles and Chapters
“Gender, Modernity, and Technology: Chile under Four Regimes,” Rockefeller Archives Research Reports, January 2005, http://archive.rockefeller.edu/publications/resrep/rronlinenew.php
“Right-Wing Men in Chile,” in Third World Men: An Anthology, ed. Adam Jones, London: England, Zed Press, 2005.
"More Than Mere Pawns: Right-Wing Women in Chile," Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2004.
“Gender and Chile’s Split Culture: Continuing Contradictions in Women’s Lives,” ReVista, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard, May 2004.
“Anti-Allende Women and the 1973 Military Coup,” Bicentenario vol. 2, no. 2, September 2003.
“U.S. Foreign Policy,” in The Red Scare After 1945, in the History in Dispute Series. Manly, Inc. 2005
“Preface to Angels of Peace and Harmony: The Origins of Catholic Feminism in Chile. Ericka Kim Verba. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
"Defending Dictatorship: Conservative Women in Pinochet's Chile and the 1988 Plebiscite," in Radical Women in Latin America: Right and Left, eds. Karen Kampwirth and Victoria González, Penn State University Press, 2001.
"Censorship in Chile 1973-1990," "Chile Films," "Análisis," "Hoy," Censorship: An International Encyclopedia, London, England: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.
“The Chile Solidarity Movement,” Chaos and Logos No. 18, October 2000, Tokyo, Japan.
"Class and Gender in the Making of the Anti-Allende Women's Movement: Chile 1970-1973," Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall 2000.
"Masculinity and Chilean Politics During the Popular Unity Years," 1998 Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, 2000.
"Luisa Capetilla," "Operation Bootstrap," "Salt of the Earth, “The Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics, Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 2000.
“La Unidad Popular y la masculinidad," La Ventana no. 7, Guadalajara, Mexico, July 1998.
"Civil War Amendments," "Last Walk for ERA," "Phyllis Schlafly Report," "Women's Liberation," The Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics, Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1999.
Reviews
Books
Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State. Conflict Over Women’s Rights in Chile.
Patricia Richards. Journal of Gender Studies. Vol 14 No 2 July 2005.Vital Connections. Politics, Social Security, and Inequality in Chile. Silvia Borzutsky. Book review. Hispanic American Historical Review 84: 3, August 2004.
When a Flower is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist. Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef. Book review. Americas. January 2005.
Partners in Conflict. The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973. Heidi Tinsman. Book review. Social History. Forthcoming.
Unfinished Transitions. Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996. Elisabeth J. Friedman. Book review. Bulletin of Latin American Research. October 2002.
Gendered Compromises: Political Culture and the State in Chile, 1920-1950. Karin Rosemblatt. Book review. Journal of Social History. Winter 2002.
De-Centering Sexualities. Politics and Representations beyond the Metropolis. Book review. Eds. Richard Phillips, Diane Watt, and David Shuttleton. H-Gender-Mideast and H-Women. July 2002.
Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America. Leigh Payne. Book review. Americas. October 2001.
Women and Politics in Latin America. Nikki Craske. Book review. H-Women Net. February 2001
“El dia que me quieres.” Film review. H-Latam. August 2001.
Las Derechas. The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Sandra McGee Deutsch. Book Review. Hispanic American Historical Review. February 2001.
Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru. Kenneth Roberts. Book Review. Americas. January 2000.
Film
"Chile, Obstinate Memory." Film review. American Historical Review.
December 1998."The Battle of Chile." Film review. H-Latam. September 1998.
Invited Presentations
“The Transnational Impact of the 1964 Coup in Brazil: Conservative Women in Chile, 1964 to 1973,” The Cultures of Dictatorship: Historical Reflections on the Brazilian Golpe of 1964, University of Maryland, October 14-16, 2004.
Commentator on “Resistance and Opposition” panel, Graduate Student Conference, University of Maryland, October 13-14, 2004.
“Class Relations in Allende’s Chile,” Chair and Commentator, 47th Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, March 2004.
“Gender and U.S Foreign Policy: The Terror Campaign and the 1964 Presidential Elections in Chile,” University of Wisconsin at Osh Kosh, September 2003.
"Allende, the Scare Campaign, and the U.S. Government. Engendering U.S. Foreign Policy toward Chile." University of Illinois at Chicago, April 2003.
“Right-Wing Women Around the Globe: A Comparative Perspective,” The Harrington Symposium on Gender and Globalization,” University of Texas at Austin, April 2002.
“The Politics of Right-Wing Women in Latin America,” Invited presentation at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, February 2002.
“La mujer de la derecha en América Latina y el mundo: una perspectiva comparativa,” Invited presentation at Los rostros del conservadurismo en Mexico, November 2001, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Presentations
“Modernity and Technology in Chile: The First National Congress of Scientists,” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 7-9, 2004.
Commented on the panel, “Power and Politics: Women in Spanish America,” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 7-9, 2004.
Chaired the panel, “Constructing the Ties that Bind: Motherhood and the State,” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 7-9, 2004.
Chaired the panel, Chaired the panel, “Technology in the Postwar Order,” Fifth European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March 24-27, 2004.
“Right-Wing Women, Sexuality, and Politics in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship.” 51 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, July 2003, Santiago, Chile.
“Sex, Politics, and Right-Wing Women in Chile: Pro- (Heteronormative) Family and Pro-Pinochet.” Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, March 2003.
"Modernity and Technology in Chile: The First National Congress of Scientists,” Fifth European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March 24-27, 2004.
“Modernity, Politics, Science, and Technology during the Popular Unity Government in Chile (1970-1973), Presented at the Technology, Politics, and Culture Seminar, Newberry Library, November 14, 2003.
Commentator on the panel, “Gender and Sexuality in Peru at the Intersection of the Global and Local,” Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, March 2003.
“North Americans and Chile: Building and Sustaining a Solidarity Movement,” American Historical Association conference, Chicago, January 2003.
“Surprising Acts of the Latin American Militaries,” Latin American Studies Association, chair and panel organizer, Washington, D.C., September 2001.
“Trends in Recent Historiography on the Southern Cone,” Invited presentation. Southern Cone section meeting, George Mason University, September 2001.
“The Impact of Military Dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay on Historians, Historiography, and Research,” Chair and panel organizer, American Historical Association Conference, Boston, January 2001.
“The Chile Solidarity Movement,” Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 2000.
"Women and U.S. Foreign Policy in Chile: The 1964 and 1970 Scare Campaigns," The 11th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rochester, New York, June 1999.
"Engendering U.S. Foreign Policy: Women and the 1964 Scare Campaign in Chile," American Historical Association Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6-10, 1999.
"Engendering Colonialism: The Impact of U.S. Colonialism on Women in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hawai'i, and the Philippines, slideshow and video, Chicago, 1999.
"Defending Dictatorship: Conservative Women in Pinochet’s Chile and the 1988 Plebiscite,” Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1998.
“The State of Studies on the Right in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1999. I organized the panel.
“Real Men Support the Popular Unity and Sissies Attack their Mothers. Politics and Gender in Chile, 1970-1973,” Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.
The Chilean Military's Use of Maternalism." American Historical Association, New York City, January 2-5 1997. I organized the panel "Conservatizing Motherhood: The Right's Political Use of Maternalism in India, the Middle East, and Chile."
"Politics, Identity, and Right-Wing Women in Chile," The Tenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 7-9 June1996.
"Anti-Allende Women's Organizations and their Fate During the Military Dictatorship: A Study in Contrasts," Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 1995.
"Why Do Chilean Women Support the Right?" Presentation at the Universidad Diego Portales, June 1994, Santiago, Chile.
"Conservative Politics in the Dominican Republic and Chile, 1960-1990." American Historical Association Convention, Chicago, January 1995.
"Conservative Women in Chile, 1970-1973," Universidad Católica de Chile, Seminar on Gender Studies, March 1994, Santiago, Chile.
"Oral History as a Method for Research on Women." Universidad de Santiago, Seminar on the Popular Unity Government, November 1993, Santiago, Chile.
"The Impact of the Conquest on Europe and Latin America," Elmhurst Historical Society, August 1993, Elmhurst, Illinois.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Historical Association, Conference on Latin American History, Latin American Studies Association, Coordinating Council for Women in History, Society for the History of Technology
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND DEVELOPMENT
Reviewed “Towards Information-Knowledge Based Development
In The World Periphery?,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, December 2004.
Reviewed Latin America and Its People, vol. II, Longman Publishers, May 2004.Dissertation Committee, “Predictors of Social Anxiety Disorder and Contingent Self-Worth: Behavioral Inhibition and Relationships with Parents and Peers During Childhood,” Allison Lerman, Illinois Institute of Technology, April 2004.
Dissertation Committee, “Are We Slaves or Free Men?”: Labor, Race, Garveyism, and the 1920 Panama Canal Strike,” Carla Burnett, University of Illinois at Chicago, March 2004.
Chair of the Tibesar Committee to determine the best article in the Americas journal. Congress on Latin American History of the American Historical Association. 2003.
Reviewed NSF Proposal “An International, Longitudinal Study of Factors that Promote Well-Being and Civic Engagement Among Young People: A Collaboration with Colleagues in Chile.” January 2003.
Reviewed for publication, “Urban Pioneers: The Role of Women in the Local Government of Santiago, Chile, 1935-1946, Hispanic American Historical Review, November 2002.
Evaluated for publication, “Conservative Women’s Political Thought, Gender Ideology and the Necessity of Feminalism,” Political Science Quarterly, December 2001.
Evaluated for publication, “Consolidating the Sandinista Revolution? Looking through the Lens of the Women’s Movement,” Social Science History, December 2001.
Evaluated for publication, “Reversing the Shame and Gendering the Memory,” Signs, June 2001.
Participant in the “Hull-House as a Resource for Teaching U.S. and World History Seminar and Conference,” June-Sept. 2000, Chicago.
1999-2001 Secretary/President Elect of the Chile-Rio de la Plata Committee of the Conference on Latin American History
Evaluated for publication, “Primordial Duties and Conscientious Motherhood, Maternalism, Mobilization, and Welfare in Post-Revolutionary Mexican State Formation,” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society, July 2000
Evaluated for publication, “The Mothers of La Plaza de Mayo: A Peace Movement,” Peace and Change, April 2000.
Evaluated for publication, Days of Discontent: American Women and the Right-wing Movement in the Age of FDR, 1933-1945, June Melby Benowitz, State University of New York Press, 1997