LINA BRITTO. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University

Transcription

1 LINA BRITTO Department of History Northwestern University 1881 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL Phone: (847) EMPLOYMENT August 2014 August 2013 May 2014 Summer 2009 Fall 2006 Spring 2009 February 2004 June 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University Instructor, Department of History, New York University [Contemporary Latin America in Historical Perspective] Teaching assistant, New York University [Conquest and Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean; History of the Andes; Gender and Women s History in the United States, ] Assistant researcher [The Sosúa Project: Jewish Immigration to the Dominican Republic,Dr. Marion Kaplan and Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City; El Gran Poder: el poder de la fiesta,dr. Rossana Barragán and Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES-UMSA), La Paz, Bolivia; Ethnicity and Violence in Bolivia, Dr.George Grey Molina and United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Bolivia] EDUCATION Graduate: Ph.D. Latin American and Caribbean History 1

2 Department of History, New York University Fall 2005 Spring 2008 Graduation: January 28, M.A in Social Science, emphasis in Anthropology Universidad de La Cordillera La Paz, Bolivia. March August Thesis approved: August Undergraduate: Social Communication/Journalism Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Medellín, Colombia. January 1994 December Graduation: March 10, Languages: Spanish (native) English(advanced) Portuguese (basic) AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Honorable Mention, Martin Diskin Dissertation Award, Latin American Studies Association/OXFAM America, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Charlotte Newcombe Foundation, Drugs, Security, and Democracy Fellowship (DSD), Social Science Research Council, Open Society Foundation, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), and International Development Research Center (Canada), Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies and Andrew Mellon Foundation, (declined). Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Andrew Mellon Foundation and Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University, (declined). International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), Social Science Research Council, Summer Predoctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University,

3 Doris M. Ohlsen Travel/Research Award for Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish Scholarship, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University, Tinker Foundation Summer Fellowship, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), New York University, Summers 2006, and MacCracken Fellowship for Doctoral Studies, New York University, Fall Journalism: Workshop grant for Executive Production and Development of Documentary Films, Docs Barcelona+Medellín for Marimberos y parranderos, documentary project based on The Marijuana Axis, doctoral dissertation for NYU Medellín, Colombia, October 15-16, Best Student Work, Guild of Journalists of Antioquia (CIPA) for Bahía Tomada, B.A. thesis in journalism for the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Medellín, April PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association (AHA). Latin American Studies Association (LASA). CONFERENCES, TALKS, AND PRESENTATIONS Plague of Snitches: Masculine Honor, the War on Drugs, and the Rule of Violence in Colombia s Drug Trade, 1970s in Leadership, Power, and Masculinity InternationalConference, University of London/Institute in Paris (ULiP), and Université Paris 1 Pantheón-Sorbonne, Paris-France, September 5-6, Two Peninsulas: The War on Drugs as Counter-Insurgency in Colombia, in XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, May 21-24, Traffickers Paradise: Illegal Drugs in the Americas in Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) Spring Lecture Series, Yale University, April 10, Comments to We Are a Restless Class : Cold War Politics and the Making of the Middle Class in Colombia, by A. Ricardo López (Western Washington University) in Tamiment Library Cold War Seminars, New York University, February 27, The Mafia Wars: U.S-Colombian Relations and the New Cold War, 1970s in American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2-5,

4 Narcotics Diplomacy and the New Cold War in the Caribbean in Harvard Academy Dinner Talks, Cambridge, November 19, El eje guajiro: comerciantes Nazis, contrabandistas criollos y diplomáticos americanos en la batalla por La Guajira durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial in Seminario Internacional de Pensamiento Postcolonial (International Conference on Postcolonial Thought), Universidad de Nariño, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Pasto-Colombia, Octubre 26-28, Marimba: breve historia oral de la bonanza de la marihuana en La Guajira, Colombia, 1970s in II Encuentro Nacional de Historia Oral (National Conference on Oral History), Bogotá, Colombia, August 26-28, Soy Parrandero y Qué: Vallenato Music and Cultural Transformations of the Marijuana Boom in La Guajira, Colombia, 1970s in Sensitive Territories International Conference, National Museum of Brazil and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 14-16, Cafeteros y marimberos: Región y nación durante la bonanza de la marijuana en La Guajira colombiana, 1970s in XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada, September 5-8, What Do We Want: Women s Action in El Alto, Bolivia, 2003 in New Political Directions in Latin America, International Center of Advance Studies of New York University, and Graduate Program in International Affaires of New School of Social Science, New York, U.S., March 4, PUBLICATIONS Hurricane Winds: Vallenato Music and Marijuana Traffic in Colombia s First Illegal Drugs Boom in Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming: spring 2015). Panama as Crossroads of Empire and Crime. A Review of Illicit Nation: State, Empire, and Illegality on the Isthmus of Panama, by Matthew Scalena in posted on March 3, A Trafficker s Paradise: The War On Drugs and the New Cold War in Colombia in Contemporánea Vol. 1, No.1 (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010). Documentaries: Espíritus Guerreros (Bogotá: All-Home-Made and Universidad de los Andes/Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, 30min., HD, 2012). Journalism: (Editor) Gas, debate nacional (La Paz, Bolivia: Semanario Pulso, 2003). 4

5 (With Forrest Hylton, Lucila Choque et al.) La Guerra del Gas contada por las mujeres (El Alto, Bolivia: Centro de Promoción de la Mujer Gregoria Apaza, 2004). Periodically-Journalism: La Hoja, Medellín, Colombia ( ). Kinetoscopio, Medellín, Colombia ( ). Cromos, Bogotá, Colombia (2000). Semanario Pulso, La Paz, Bolivia ( ). El Espectador, Bogotá, Colombia (2003, 2014). Cáñamo, Barcelona, Spain ( ). U.S (2005). NACLA, Report of the Americas, New York City (2009). Xinhua News, Beijing, China (2010). 5