Elizabeth Hutchison
Associate Professor • Modern Latin America
Profile
Dr. Hutchison's professional trajectory has been deeply shaped by the political and economic context of twentieth-century Latin America, particularly U.S. intervention and the spread of brutal authoritarian regimes. An overriding concern with social justice, democracy, and human rights has driven her engagement with Chilean history, as well as thestudy of labor, gender, and sexuality in 20th-century Latin America. Her doctoral dissertation and first book, Labors Appropriate to Their Sex (Duke, 2001), examined working-class women‘s role in Chile‘s economic development, labor movements, and reformist politics in the early twentieth century, leading to a second project on Chilean domestic service. From Servants to Workers: A Social History of Household Workers in Twentieth-Century Chile analyzes the changing labor relations of domestic service over the course of the twentieth century, linking questions about domestic servants‘ employment, migration, family life, and political activity to broader class and ethnic relations in Chilean history. Dr. Hutchison is also currently co-authoring The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics for Duke University Press.
Education
B.A. Comparative Study of Religion, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1986
M.A. Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Research
History of labor and gender in modern Latin America; Human rights in Cold War Latin America; Latin American religions; Chile in the national period.
Selected Publications
Books:
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001). Also published as Labores propias de su sexo, trans. Jacqueline Garreaud (Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2006)
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)
El Movimiento de derechos humanos en Chile, 1973-1990, with Patricio Orellana (Santiago: CEPLA, 1991)
Articles:
“Shifting Solidarities: The Politics of Household Workers in Chile, 1967-1988,” Hispanic American Historical Review 91:1 (February 2011): 129-162
“Many Zitas: The Young Catholic Worker and Household Workers in Postwar Chile,” Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 6:4 (Winter 2009): 67-94
"From La mujer esclava to la mujer limón: Anarchism and the Politics of Sexuality in Chile, 1901-1926," Hispanic American Historical Review 81 (2110): 519-54
“La historia detrás de las cifras: La evolución del censo Chileno y la representación del trabajo femenino, 1895-1930,” Historia (Chile) 33 (2000): 417-34
“’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
Awards
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, “Gender History in the Americas: Building Ties to Spain,”Universitat Romiro I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, Fall 2005
Courses
UNM Lecture Courses:
Modern Latin America
Women in Modern Latin America
Latin American Religions
Chile and Argentina since 1820
Latin American Labor
and Working-Class History
Military and Society in Latin America
The Other 9/11: Chilean Dictatorship
Latin American Film
UNM Graduate Seminars:
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
Historiography of Modern Latin America
Women's Rights in Latin America
Latin American Labor History
Public Violence in Latin America
Advanced Historical Methods
Dissertation/Professionalization Workshop
Courses Offered Abroad:
Genero y Trabajo en America Latina
Mujeres
de America Latina