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Nancy Appelbaum

Nancy Appelbaum

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Latin America, Colombia, Race, Gender

 
Office: LT 716  
Phone: (607) 777-4420 E-mail: nappel@binghamton.edu
My research focuses on race and the formation of nations and regions in Latin America. I am currently writing a book on nineteenth-century geographers and how they envisioned the racial and territorial composition of Colombia. My first book examined agrarian and regional history from the perspective of a multiracial community in Colombia’s Coffee Region over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I am also interested in gender and transnational links between Latin America and the United States. I accept well-prepared graduate students in modern Latin American history whose thematic interests dovetail with the History Department’s strengths.
Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program

New York State Latin American History Workshop

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

Recent or current graduate courses:

  • Race, Place & Nation in Latin America
  • Twentieth-Century Labor and Women's History in Latin America
  • Independence Era in Latin America
  • Gender in Latin America

Select Publications

  • Dos plazas y una nación:  Raza y colonización en Riosucio, Caldas, 1846-1948. Translated by María del Carmen Londoño. Bogotá, Colombia:  Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, Universidad de los Andes, and Universidad del Rosario, 2008. 
  • "Post-Revisionist Scholarship on Race." Latin American Research Review 40:3 (October 2005): 206-217.
  • Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia. Duke University Press, 2003.
  • Race and Nation in Modern Latin America, volume co-edited with Anne S. Macpherson and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
  • "Historias rivales: narrativas locales de raza, lugar y nación en Riosucio." Translated by Rocío Mahecha. Revista Fronteras de la Historia (Bogotá) 8 (2003): 115-134.
  • “Las parcialidades indígenas de Riosucio y Quinchía frente a la ley 89 de 1890 (1890-1920).” Translated by María Monterroso, Impronta (Colombia) 1 (November 2003): 7-30.
  • "Whitening the Region: Caucano Mediation and 'Antioqueno Colonization' in Nineteenth-Century Colombia." The Hispanic American Historical Review 79:4 (November 1999): 631-68.

Awards

  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Binghamton University, 2004-2005
  • New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) 2003 Best Book Prize for Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948, October 2004
  • The Berkshire Conference 2003 First Book Prize for Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948, May 2004

Grants and Fellowships

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2009-2010
  • Fellowship, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2009
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2002
  • Dean's Research Semester Award, Spring 2001
  • Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, Joint Committee on Latin America and the Caribbean, Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1993-1995
  • Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
  • History Department Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 1993
  • Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 1992
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990-1991
  • Fulbright/ICE-TEX Scholarship, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 1988-1989