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Research
Laura Gotkowitz's research interests center on social movements; legal cultures; ethnicity, gender, and violence in the modern Andes. Her book, A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952, traces conflicts over land, labor, justice, and nationhood in Bolivia from the late-nineteenth-century liberal reforms to the 1952 revolution. Laura’s current research focuses on political violence, migration, democracy, and fascism in Bolivia before and after World War II. She is also editing a collection of essays on race and racism in the Andes and Mesoamerica. Before joining Iowa's History Department, Laura taught Latin American history at Swarthmore College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998.
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Teaching
In addition to surveys of colonial and modern Latin America, Laura teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on race, class, and nationalism; dictatorships and human rights; 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
- 16W:110 Topics in Latin American History: Dictatorships and Human Rights in Modern Latin America
- 16:285 Readings in Gender in Latin American History
- 16:288 Readings in Latin American History
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Publications
- A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 . (Durham: Duke University Press, 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).
Spanish version in Cultura política en los andes (1750-1950), ed. by Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada and Nils Jacobsen (Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Cooperación Regional Francesa para los países Andinos, IFEA, 2007), pp. 209-243.
- "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.
Abridged version in Honor, Status, and the Law in Modern Latin America, ed. by Sueann Caulfield,Sarah Chambers, and Lara Putnam (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), pp. 131-154.
- "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.
- "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. Spanish version in Decursos (Cochabamba), IX:17/18 (2007), pp. 61-96.
- " '¡No hay hombres!': Género, nación, y las Heroínas de la Coronilla de Cochabamba (1885-1926)," in El siglo XIX en Bolivia y América Latina, ed. by Rossana Barragán, Dora Cajías, and Seemin Qayum (La Paz, Bolivia: IFEA and Historias, 1997), pp. 701-716.
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Awards
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- American Historical Association John E. Fagg book prize, 2008
- Major Projects grant, International Programs, the University of Iowa, with Rossana Barragán (2009-10)
- Fulbright Hays Faculty Research Fellowship (2007-08)
- Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant, the University of Iowa (2006-07, 2008-09)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship (2005)
- Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa (2002)
- 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)
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