Research Corner

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Updated 09/17/2023

BLOG: Keeping up a Research Agenda when Life Gets in the Way by Gretchen Pierce

Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arizona Press, 2014) with Áurea Toxqui, and has also published (or will soon publish) two articles, three book chapters, one encyclopedia article, and thirteen academic blog posts on temperance, beer, and advertising in Mexico. In addition to serving as an editor on H-LatAm and founding this blog, she is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, “Altered States: Mexico’s

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BLOG: Tallersol Cultural Centre: Memories of Resistance by Richard G. Smith

H-Latamist@s: I believe the system-upgrade bugs have been worked out and we are back to a regular publication schedule. While I have many blog posts in the queue, I am always looking for more. Now that many of us are back to school, we would love to know all about your summer research! Please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or at this Google Form if you would like to contribute for the good of the H-Latam community.

Richard Smith originally trained as a chemist before a career in consumer product innovation took him all over the world, including three fantastic years living in

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BLOG: Locating, Ordering, and Purchasing Digitized Documents from the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú by William Cohoon

Neter@s: Research Corner has been on hiatus while H-Net underwent an update and bugs were being fixed. However, I am still learning the new system, so please bear with me as the technical team and I work through issues that may still arise (you may have noticed all of the images that were uploaded separately for this post--previously that activity would not have appeared in your feeds). While waiting, I have accumulated a huge pile of blog posts to upload. Even still, I am soliciting new posts about your summer research! Please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or at this Google

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BLOG: The Biblioteca Nacional del Perú’s Digitized Holdings by William Cohoon

William Cohoon teaches upper school history at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, Texas, and earned his Ph.D. in colonial Latin American history at Texas Christian University. Recently, Historia y Cultura published his article “Intercambios predecibles: estandarización del servicio de correo real en el Perú borbónico,” which focuses the Bourbon monarchy’s desire to create a predictable and revenue generating postal service. For this article, he completed research at the Archivo General de la Nación del Perú and relied on digitized documents from the Biblioteca Nacional del

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BLOG: Tropy and Digital Photo Management for Latin American Historians (Part II) by Douglas McRae

Attention Latin Americanist@s! I'm looking for more guest bloggers on Research Corner. Please check out my Call for Bloggers post. If you're interested, contact me at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form.

Douglas McRae is an urban environmental historian, and has researched the history of water and sanitation in São Paulo, Brazil. Douglas holds a BA from Middlebury College, an MA from Georgetown University in Latin American Studies, and a PhD in History from Georgetown University. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New