Elizabeth Hutchison

Associate Professor • Modern Latin America

Contact

email:ehutch@unm.edu

office:Mesa Vista Hall 2083

office phone: 505-277-2266

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-editing The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics, forthcoming in 2013 with Duke University Press, and beginning new research on the comparative politics of military rule in Chile and Argentina.

In addition to UNM, where she has worked since 1998, Dr. Hutchison has held visiting positions at the Instituto de Desarollo Económico y Social, Argentina (2012), the Instituto de Estudios de la Mujer at the Universidad de Granada, Spain (2006), the Universitat Romiro I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain (2005), the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (1999), and Colby and Bowdoin Colleges (1995-1998). She advises graduate students in History and Latin American Studies with research on countries that include Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Cuba and Mexico, and topics ranging from body politics to indigenous movements and disability studies in twentieth-century Latin America.

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:

The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Co-edited with Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara Milanich, and Peter Winn (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013)

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:

"Identidades y Alianzas: El movimiento de las Trabajadoras de Casa Particular en la Guerra Fría," Nuevo mundo, mundos nuevos (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), 11 April 2013

“Shifting Solidarities: The Politics of Household Workers in Chile, 1967-1988,” Hispanic American Historical Review 91:1 (February 2011): 129-162

"Women in Modern Latin American History," Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latin American Studies, Jennifer Vafidis, ed., Oxford University Press, 2011

"Muchas Zitas: La Juventud Obrera Católica y las empleadas de casa particular," in Mujeres: Historias chilenas del siglo XX, ed. Julio Pinto Vallejos (Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2011)

“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

Snead-Wertheim Endowed Lectureship (UNM), “Engendering Transition: Men, Women, and the Struggle for Human Rights in the Southern Cone,” 2013-2014

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, "From Servants to Workers: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-
Century Chile," Summer 2013

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

International Courses (Chile, Argentina, Spain):
Genero y Trabajo en America Latina
Mujeres de America Latina