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Professor Silva in
the Hot Seat:
Defense of His Dissertation
By: Seth Ford
On April 15, Professor Silva defended his
dissertation “White-Collar Revolutionaries: Middle-Class
Unions and the Rise of the Chilean Left, 1918-1938" before
his four-member dissertation committee. Professor Silva’s
dissertation challenges the view that the middle class is naturally
a strong base of support for democracy.
He found that the middle class throughout
Latin America espoused radical and anti-democratic views. Especially
in Chile during the years covered in his dissertation, the middle
class became uniformly Marxist in their views. Professor Silva
asserts that this shift to Marxism was unique to the Chilean
middle class, and a reaction to the frequently depressed economy
of Chile between 1918 and 1938.
The dissertation committee was pleased
with Professor Silva’s work, and Professor Silva was relieved
to be at the "official" end of the Ph.D. track. Currently,
he is looking forward to transforming his dissertation into a
book that will compare Chilean middle-class radicalization to
the rest of Latin America.
SEPC
Election Results
Juniors:
Adam Noyce, George Carroll, Shannon O’Connor
Senior:
Chris Neary
Hires
in History
By: Marci Sortor
You will be seeing two new faces around
the History Department next fall.
Sarah Purcell, ’92, will teach courses
on early America up to the Civil War. After graduating from Grinnell
College, Ms. Purcell pursued graduate studies at Brown University.
This fall she will be teaching the "Revolutionary Transformation
of America" and HIS 111: American History I.
Jan Doolittle will serve as the one-year
replacement for Victoria Brown. Ms. Doolittle received her PhD
from SUNY Binghamton and will be teaching courses in modern US
and US Women's history. This fall she will offer "The Emergence
of Modern America,” "American Legal History,”
and "The Debate Over the Equal Rights Amendment.” |
