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 published a number of articles, book chapters, and academic blog posts on alcohol in Mexico. In addition to serving as an editor on H-LatAm and founding this blog, she is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Altered States: Mexico’s Anti-Alcohol, State-Building, and Identity-Formation Projects, 1910-1940.”

2021: A

 

I am happy to continue our series on transnational research. If you are interested in contributing to this blog, click here. Vera Blinn Reber (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison), taught for 38 years at Shippensburg University and is now Professor Emerita. She is author of British Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires, 1810-1880 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979) and over twenty-five articles. Four of the articles have received awards including “The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-1970,” HAHR 68, no. 2 (1988) which received the

Tips for Transnational Research by Lisa Pinley Covert

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Happy 2021, H-LatAmist@s! If you have not seen Research Corner’s end-of-year review, please check it out. I’ve got an interesting set of posts lined up for you for the next few months, but I could use more contributions. If you’re interested in sharing your research experiences for the good of the community or promoting the archive/library, physical or digital, that you work at, please fill out this Google Form.

I am pleased to begin another two-part series on transnational research. Lisa Pinley Covert is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the history department at the

 

Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History and the 2020-2021 Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow 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 published a number of articles, book chapters, and academic blog posts on temperance in Mexico. In addition to serving as an editor on H-LatAm and founding this blog, she is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Altered States: Mexico’s Anti

 

To Blog or Not to Blog? There Should be no Question!: Call for Guest Bloggers

H-LatAmist@s: for many of us, it’s been a busier fall than usual. The mental and physical strains of living through a pandemic have perhaps been compounded by an increased workload or financial constraints. It is therefore with some trepidation that I kindly request more of you to consider writing a blog post or two for Research Corner. I have received positive feedback from readers—this blog has helped them to conceive of new ways of doing their research in a time when that may feel challenging; and

Transnational Archival Research in the Americas, Part II, by David Carey Jr.

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I am pleased to continue David Carey Jr.’s two-part series on archival research in Guatemala, Ecuador, and the United States. If you missed part one, please click here. Carey Jr. is Doehler Chair in History at Loyola University. In addition to writing more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and essays, he is the author of I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944, which was the co-recipient of the 2015 Latin American Studies Association Bryce Wood Book Award. His most recent book is Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive

Transnational Archival Research in the Americas, Part I, by David Carey Jr.

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David Carey Jr. is Doehler Chair in History at Loyola University. In addition to writing more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and essays, he is the author of I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944, which was the co-recipient of the 2015 Latin American Studies Association Bryce Wood Book Award. His most recent book is Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive. He has authored three other books and has edited or co-edited three volumes. Among other entities, the Fulbright, American Philosophical Association, and John Simon

Call for Guest Bloggers: Transnational, Digital, and Physical Repositories

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H-LatAmist@s: I hope you are all doing well in this trying time. I know you are incredibly busy, eking out some time for research, transformng courses, programs, and institutions (once again) for the fall, and trying to stay physically and mentally healthy. If you have a few spare moments, though, I ask you to consider authoring a blog post(s) for Research Corner.
 
I began this project with posts about physical repositories covering Latin America, either from the perspective of the researcher, providing useful advice, or from the prospective of an archivist/librarian, describing