Curriculum Vitae de Teresita Martínez-Vergne, PhD

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TERESITA MARTINEZ VERGNE

CONTACT DATA
(Interim) Director of Social Justice
and Professional Development
American Educational Research Association
1230 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036

EDUCATION
1985 PhD, University of Texas at Austin
1979 MA, UT-Austin
1977 BA, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
1999- Professor, Macalester College
spring 1999 Associate Professor of the Humanities (NEH Chair), Colgate University
1995-96 On sabbatical leave in the Dominican Republic
1994-99 Associate professor, Macalester College
1991-93 Assistant professor, Macalester College
1991 Associate professor, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
1988-91 Assistant professor, UPR
1985-87 Assistant professor, Colgate University
1984 Assistant instructor, UT-Austin

EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCIES
Thematic. The Politics of Food in Latin America; Gender in the Latin American Discourse of Nationalism; Visitors’ Tales of Latin America (on travel literature); Women in Latin America; The Independence Movements in Spanish America; Status and Privilege in Colonial Spanish America; Slavery and Plantation Societies in the Caribbean and Brazil; The Mexican Revolution; Law and Society in Puerto Rico
Geographically Based. Spanish America in the 19th and 20th Centuries; History of Brazil; History of the Caribbean; The Hispanic Caribbean (in Spanish); Puerto Rico before 1820; Puerto Rico after 1820
Theory and Methodology. Senior Seminar (research and writing); The Study of History (historiography); Methodological Approaches and Research Techniques; Research Proposal Writing

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2003-05 Faculty Personnel Committee, Macalester College
2000-02 Faculty Advisory Council, Macalester College (spring)
2000-02, 1993-95 Committee on Affirmative Action Policy, Macalester College
2002 Search Committee, Chief Financial Officer, Macalester College
2000-01 Search Committee, English Department, Macalester College
2000-01 Search Committee, Mellon Postdocs in History and Women's and Gender Studies, Macalester College
2003-04, 2000-02 Chair, Department of History, Macalester College
1996-00 Coordinator, Latin American Studies Program, Macalester College
1993-94 Faculty representative from Macalester College in 4-college consortium for study-abroad program at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic
1988-89 Coordinator, Graduate Program in History, UPR

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Citizenship and national identity. The urban working class. Intersections of gender and race.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
• Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
• Contemporary Caribbean Societies and Cultures in a Global Context, ed. with Franklin Knight. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
• UNESCO General History of the Caribbean, Vol. 5, The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century, co-ed. with Bridget Brereton et al. Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2004.
• "Defining the class, gender, and race of citizenship: Fashioning bourgeois womanhood in the early-twentieth-century national discourse in the Dominican Republic," New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 75 (2001), pp. 65-88
• Shaping the Discourse on Space. Charity and its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
• "The Liberation of Women in the Caribbean: Research Perspectives for the Study of Gender Relations in the Post-Emancipation Period," Caribbean Studies 27 (January-June 1994), pp. 1-36.
• Capitalism in Colonial Puerto Rico: Central San Vicente in the Late Nineteenth Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992.
• "The Allocation of Liberated African Labor Through the Casa de Beneficencia -- San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1859-1864," Slavery and Abolition 12 (December 1991), pp. 200-216.
• "The Liberal Concept of Charity: Beneficencia Applied to Puerto Rico, 1821-1868," in Mark D. Szuchman, ed. The Middle Period in Latin American History: Values and Attitudes in the 18th-19th Centuries (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989), pp. 167-184.
• "Politics and Society in the Spanish Caribbean During the Nineteenth Century," in Franklin W. Knight and Colin A. Palmer, eds. The Modern Caribbean (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989), pp. 185-202.
• "New Patterns for Puerto Rico's Sugar Workers: Abolition and Centralization at San Vicente, 1873-1892," Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (February 1988), pp. 45-74.
• (With Julio Ramos) "History of Continental Puerto Ricans," in David William Foster, ed. Sourcebook of Hispanic Culture in the United States (Chicago: American Library Association, 1982), pp. 133-150.
• "The Attitudes of Influential Groups of Colonial Society Towards the Rural Working Population of Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico, 1860-1873," Journal of Caribbean History 12 (May 1979), pp. 35-54.

INVITED ARTICLES
•Contributing editor for Dominican Republic history section, Handbook of Latin American Studies (2000-2004), Library of Congress.
• Contributing editor for Puerto Rican history section, HLAS (1993-2000).
• "Puerto Rico," in Council of Foreign Relations, Encyclopedia of US Foreign Relations (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 447-450.
• "Pedro Albizu Campos," in Barbara A. Tenenbaum, ed., Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995), p. 42.
• "Puerto Rican Americans," in Supplement to Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996), pp. 153-154.

BOOK REVIEWS
in Journal of American History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Hispanic American Historical Review, International History Review, Gender and Society, American Historical Review, The Americas, Shofar, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Punto y coma, Historia y Sociedad, Revista de Historia, Journal of Caribbean History

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2002-03 National Humanities Center Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, NC
2002 Tanner Humanities Institute, University of Utah (declined)
2001 Summer Library Research Fellowship, Cornell University
2001 Keck Foundation student-faculty summer collaboration grant, with Inés Tófalo, for a project on identity politics and social movements
2000 American Philosophical Society Grant for research travel to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, summer
2000 Bush Foundation course development grant on race and diversity, "Notions of Citizenship in the Hispanic World," summer
2000 Mellon Foundation summer stipends, "Creating Image Databases (for several courses)"
1997 International Faculty Development Seminar, Brazil, Macalester College
1994 Wallace Faculty Development Program Grant for summer research travel to Santo Domingo, DR, Macalester College
1992-93 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, National Research Council (affiliated with the Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Program, University of Minnesota)
1989 NEH Summer Institute "Iberia and the New World 1500-1800: Cultural Encounter and Mutual Exchange," University of Wisconsin, Madison
1987 Ford Foundation Project on Women and Gender Grant, Colgate University
1986 Fulbright Summer Travel Seminar "South America Today," Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
1981-82 Inter-American Foundation Fellowship, Rosslyn, Virginia

INVITED LECTURES
• Book signing and presentation, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, November 2005
• "Race and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic," US Foreign Service Training Center, Arlington, VA, March 2005
• "La ciudad, forjadora de la ciudadanía (The City, the Forger of Citizenship)" and "La clase trabajadora urbana dentro del proyecto nacional a principios del siglo 20 (The Urban Working Class Within the National Project in the Early Twentieth Century)" Academy of History, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, July 2003
• "Los ciudadanos de la clase trabajadora (Working Class Citizens)" and the presentation of a special number of Op. Cit., the journal of the Center for Historical Research, dedicated to Gender Studies, Department of History, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, October 2003
• "Comment" to Sheila Rowbotham's presentation, Macalester International Roundtable, Saint Paul, October 2000
• "The Dilemmas of Women's Studies in Latin America," keynote at symposium on "Women in Latin America," Texas Tech University, Lubbock, January 1995
• "La mujer en República Dominicana: tras los rastros de su historia," panel at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, July 1994
• "Women in Need of Charity (or Charity in Need of Women?) in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico," Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 1993.
• "The Subordination of Women Through the Dispensation of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico," Colgate University and Hobart and William Smith College, New York, April 1990.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professional development.
2004 International Faculty Development Seminar: Development, Democracy and Human Rights in Costa Rica, San José (July 18-30)
1997 International Faculty Development Seminar, Brazil, Macalester College (June)
1990s Frequent travel to island and mainland Caribbean, as a function of leadership role in the Association of Caribbean Historians
1986 Fulbright Summer Travel Seminar "South America Today," Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Site visits.
2004 Evaluator for Associated Colleges of the Midwest program, "Studies in Latin American Culture and Society," San José, Costa Rica
2000 Evaluator for Community Internships in Latin America, Higher Education Consortium on Urban Affairs, Quito, Ecuador
Life experience (born and raised in Puerto Rico; native Spanish speaker; lived for extended periods in the Dominican Republic).
2003 Wallace Faculty Development Program Grant for summer research travel to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Macalester College
2000 American Philosophical Society Grant for research travel to Santo Domingo, DR (summer)
1996 Sabbatical, research and writing in Santo Domingo, DR
1994 Wallace Faculty Development Program Grant for summer research travel to Santo Domingo, DR, Macalester College
1992 Faculty Travel Research grant for research in Puerto Rico, Macalester College
1981-82 Inter-American Foundation Fellowship for dissertation research in Puerto Rico

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Institutional.
2005 External Reviewer, History Department, Pomona College
2004 Evaluator for Associated Colleges of the Midwest program, "Studies in Latin American Culture and Society," San José, Costa Rica
2001 Chair of panel evaluating proposals for dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships, Ford Foundation, Washington, DC
1996-98 Evaluator of Fulbright scholar applications for study abroad in Central America and the Caribbean, Institute of International Education, Chicago
Individual.
2004-05, 1998-2002 Regional Ford Fellowship Liaison for the National Research Council
1999-2000 Mentor for Padrinos Program, Hispanic Pre-College Program, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul
1995 Mentor for Minnesota Hispanic Education Program for high school students
1994-95 Mentor for "Preparing Future Faculty" Program, Pew Foundation, University of Minnesota

OTHER WORK-RELATED ACTIVITIES
2004 Participant in Midwest Faculty Seminar on "World Hunger: Causes and Consequences," Chicago, IL
2001-03 Member of Elsa Goveia Prize Committee, to select the best book on Caribbean History published in the previous 2 years, Association of Caribbean Historians
2001 Participant in workshop for department chairs, American Council on Education, Washington, DC
1999-00 Member of Premio Iberoamericano Committee, to select the best book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities published in Spanish or Portuguese in any country, Latin American Studies Association
1991-2005 Manuscript reviewer for University of Pittsburgh Press, Duke University Press, University of North Carolina Press, University Press of Florida
1990-2005 Referee for Hispanic American Historical Review, Caribbean Studies, Journal of Caribbean History, Latin American Research Review, Journal of American History 12/05

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