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Research
Laura Gotkowitz's research interests center on rural social movements; legal cultures; race, ethnicity, and violence in the modern Andes. She has published A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
(Duke University Press), which traces indigenous struggles over land, labor, citizenship, and nationhood in Bolivia from the late-nineteenth-century liberal reforms to the 1952 revolution. Laura has also been involved in a collaborative, interdisciplinary project on race and racism in Latin America. With Marisol de la Cadena, she is co-editing a volume tentatively titled, Race, Culture, and Power: From Purity of Blood to Indigenous Social Movements in Latin America.
Before joining Iowa's History Department, Laura was an assistant professor at Swarthmore College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998.
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