Office: Mears 313

Phone: 269-4886

Email: silvajp@grinnell.edu

Office Hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1 - 3 pm

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Basic Bio:

I teach Latin American history here at Grinnell College. My PhD is from the University of Chicago, where I wrote a dissertation on Chilean middle-class unions. My work examines how the middle class contributed to the rise of powerful leftist parties in Chile. You can find my recent article on the origins of white-collar legal privileges in the Journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas in 2006. I recently submitted an essay on class relations in Chile for an edited volume on the Middle Class in Latin America.

Courses:

• History 105: Cultural Encounters in History, Syllabus
• History 201: Colonial Latin American History, Syllabus
• History 202: Modern Latin American History, Syllabus , Reviews
• History 204: Radical Movements in Twentieth Century Latin America, Syllabus
• Humanities 140: Medieval and Renaissance Culture: 1100-1650, Syllabus
• History 327: Latin American Labor History, Syllabus
• History 329: Latin America and the United States, Syllabus