Modern Latin America
The Andes

Office: 306 Schaeffer Hall

Tel: (319) 353-2308

E-Mail: laura-gotkowitz@uiowa.edu

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Teaching

In addition to surveys of colonial and modern Latin America, Laura teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on politics and culture in the Andes; race, class, and nationalism; revolutionary movements; and gender in Latin American history. Courses recently taught include:

• 16W:051 Colloquium for History Majors (World)
• 16W:111 Colonial Latin America
• 16W:112 Introduction to Modern Latin America
• 16:285 Readings in Gender in Latin American History
• 16:288 Readings in Latin American History

Publications

• A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
  (Duke University Press, December 2007)
• “’Under the Dominion of the Indian’: Rural Mobilization, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia, 1940s,” in Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750s-1950s, ed. by Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín (Duke University Press, Summer 2005)
• "Trading Insults: Honor, Violence, and the Gendered Culture of Commerce in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1870s-1950s," Hispanic American Historical Review 83:1 (Feb. 2003), pp.83-118.
• “Revisiting the Rural Roots of the Revolution,” in Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective, ed. by Merilee Grindle and Pilar Domingo (London: Institute for Latin American Studies, University of London/David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2003), pp. 164-182.
• “El Congreso Indígena de 1945 a la luz de nuevas tendencias en la historiografía de América Latina,” in I Encuentro de Cientistas Sociales La Historia Hoy, del 5 al 9 de noviembre de 2000, ed. by José Antonio Rocha. Colección Sociedad Real Siglo XXI, Tomo I (Cochabamba: Universidad Católica Boliviana-Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, 2001), pp. 43-62.
• “Commemorating the Heroínas: Gender and Civic Ritual in Early-Twentieth-Century Bolivia,” in Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America, ed. Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux (Duke University Press, 2000), pp. 215-237.

Awards & Service

• Special Projects Fund, Latin American Studies Association-with Marisol de la Cadena (2002-03)
• Major Projects, International Programs, University of Iowa-with Marisol de la Cadena (2002-03)
• Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa (2002)
• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research - with Marisol de la Cadena (2001-02)
• Arts and Humanities Initiative, University of Iowa - with Marisol de la Cadena (2001-02)
• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Fellowship (1999-2000)
• Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association (1998)
• Mellon Foundation, University of Chicago Dissertation-Year Fellowship (1993-94)
• Social Science Research Council-American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship (1992-93)
• Fulbright Grant (1987-88)