Elizabeth Hutchison
Associate Professor • Latin America
Graduate Director
• Department of History
Profile
Professor Hutchison has taught in the UNM History Department since 1998, where she now serves as Graduate Director. She has also worked extensively with the Ford Foundation as a consultant on projects related to human rights and women’s studies in Latin America. Hutchison is currently writing a social and political history of domestic service in twentieth-century Chile, and co-editing The Chile Reader for Duke University Press.
Education
BA in the Comparative Study of Religion, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1986
MA in Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley, 1989
PhD in Latin American History, UC Berkeley, 1995
Research
Chilean politics and culture, the Southern Cone, gender and sexuality, religion, labor, and human rights
Selected Publications
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001)
“La historia detrás de las cifras: La evolución del censo Chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930,” Historia 33 (Chile):417-34, 2000 and in El género en historia, Anne Pérotin-Dumon, ed., Santiago, Chile, 2000
“From La mujer esclava to la mujer limon: Anarchism and the Politics of Sexuality in Chile, 1901-1926,” Hispanic American Historical Review 81 (2001): 519-54
“’El fruto envenenado del arbol capitalista’: Women Workers and the Prostitution of Labor in Urban Chile, 1896-1925,” Journal of Women’s History 9 (1998): 131-50
Disciplina y desacato: Construcción de identidad en Chile, siglos XIX y XX, with Lorena Godoy, Karin Rosemblatt and Soledad Zárate, eds. (Santiago: SUR/CEDEM, 1995)
Awards
Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship, Fall 2005, Universitat Roviro i Virgili, Tarragona, Calalonia, Spain
Research Allocations Committee Large Grant, Summer 2002, University of New Mexico
Feminist Research Institute Faculty Research Grant, June-December 2001
Research Allocations Committee Small Grant, Summer 2000, University of New Mexico
Courses
Latin American Gender and Sexuality
Modern Latin America
History of Latin American Religions
Women in Modern Latin America
Latin American Labor and Working Class History
Chile and Argentina since 1820
Latin American Military and Society
Public Violence, State, and Nation in Latin America