Image
Research Corner logo

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 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, an article, and a chapter from an edited volume, all of which deal with alcohol in one way or another.

Year Four: H

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

Gretchen Pierce (She/her/hers) Blog Post
Image
Research Corner logo

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

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

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

Gretchen Pierce (She/her/hers) Blog Post
 
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
 

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

BLOG: Summer is the Time for Research! Call for Guest Bloggers by Gretchen Pierce

Gretchen Pierce (She/her/hers) Blog Post
 

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 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, an article, and a chapter from an edited volume, all of which deal with alcohol in one way or another.

Summ

Heather Coleman. Warm Socks from the Frontline

Iryna Skubii Blog Post

 Three years ago today, Tetiana Kalenychenko gave me these wonderful warm socks. She had come to Edmonton for a conference I had organized and that we promptly had to cancel once everyone arrived, due to the declaration of the global pandemic. Tania was the last of our guests to leave and I took her around downtown, which was eerily like a ghost town, and she came over for supper with our family. Poor Tania would then have an epic journey home, trapped first in Frankfurt and then in Minsk, and finally making it to Kyiv days later.

These are my Covid socks and my war socks. Tania had been

BLOG: Call for Guest Bloggers on Research Corner by Gretchen Pierce

Gretchen Pierce (She/her/hers) Blog Post
 

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 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 entitled “Altered States: Mexico’s Anti-Alcohol, State-Building, and Identity-Formation Projects

 

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.”

From Doing

 

This post is the next to last entry in the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog” series featuring graduate students from Rutgers University. Dr. Tatiana Seijas and I collaborated, using Research Corner to teach her graduate students about archival research. Gwen Allen, who teaches history, religion, and yoga to middle and high school students, will use some of the primary sources she discovered completing this assignment to teach her own students. If you are interested in undertaking a similar pedagogical experiment, or would like to contribute to this research blog in