Mary Roldan
Associate Professor
Office: 452 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 254-4999
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: mjr8@cornell.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1992
A.M. Harvard University, 1985
A.B. Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1981
Courses
| Fall 2008: | 3331 |
Contemporary Latin America |
|---|---|---|
4240 |
Art & Politics in 20C Latin America | |
| Spring 2009: | On Leave |
Recent Publications and Awards
Books
A Sangre y Fuego: la Violencia en Antioquia, 1946-1953 (Bogotá: Banco de La República e ICANH, 2003).
Blood and Fire: la Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia 1946-1953. (Duke University Press, 2002).
Articles
“The Local Limitations to a National Political Movement: Gaítin and Gaitanismo In Antioquia,” in Nils Jacobson and Cristobál Aljovín, eds., Political Cultures in the Andes (Duke University Press, 2004.)
“Wounded Medellín: Narcotics Trafficking against a Background of Industrial Decline,” in Jane Schneider and Ida Susser, eds., Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World (London and New York: Berg Publishers, 2003).
“La Violencia in Historical Perspective: Implications for an Analysis of the Contemporary Conflict in Colombia.” The Center for Latin American Studies Spring 2002 Newsletter, University of California, Berkeley: 8, 10-12 and 23.
“Plan Colombia’: From Intent to Execution,” Radical Historians Newsletter (84) June 2001: 4, 16.
“Museo Nacional, Fronteras de la Identidad y el Reto de la Globalizacion.” In Gonzalo Sanchez y Maria Emma Wills, eds., Museo, Memoria, y Nación, Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (IEPRI) and the United Nations Development Program (PNUD), June 2000: 99-116.
“Limitaciones locales de un movimiento nacional: Gaitán y el gaitanismo en Antioquia.” Análysis Político, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 39 (Jan-April) 2000: 17-35.
“Cocaine and the Miracle of Modernity in Medellín” in Paul Gootenberg, ed., Cocaine: Global Histories (Routledge, July 1999): 165-181.
“History and ‘Narco-Guerrillas’ in Colombia.” Radical Historians Newsletter (81) December 1999.
“Violencia, coloinzación, y la geographía de la diferencia cultural en Colombia” in Análysis Político, Universided Nacional de Colombia 35 (September/December) 1998:3-25.
Awards
Fundación Alejandro Angel Escobar Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities for A Sangre y Fuego: la Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953, ($9000), 2003.
Robert and Helen Appel Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research in the Humanities (paid semester of leave), 2000.
Fellowships
Dean of Arts and Sciences Subsidy for Translation costs of A Sangre y Fuego: la Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953, 2002.
Society for the Humanities Research Grant, 2001.
Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellow, Spring Semester 2001 (declined).
Cornell Arts and Sciences Research Fellowship.
Society for the Humanities Summer research Grant, Cornell University.
Colciencias, 1997.