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Paula Alonso

Visiting Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

Phillips 313
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Telephone: (202) 994-6233
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: palonso@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Oxford University

Expertise:

Latin American History

Background:

Paula Alonso is Visiting Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, currently on leave from the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires and from the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET). She obtained her first degree in Politics from the Catholic University of Buenos Aires and received her doctorate (D.Phil.) from Oxford University in 1992. Her previous academic appointments include Assistant Professor at Bristol University and Researcher at the University of Warwick (both in the UK), Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland (2003; 2005-06) and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia (2007). She was also the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (2004). Dr. Alonso has also been the recipient of significant research grants from The Leverhulme Trust, from the Fundación Antorchas and from the CONICET.

Dr. Alonso's research has centered on Argentine political and intellectual history. She is the author of Between Revolutions and the Ballot Box. The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party (Cambridge University Press, 2000), with a revised version published in Spanish by Ed. Sudamericana/Universidad de San Andrés, 2000; Jardines privados, legitimaciones públicas. El Partido Autonomista Nacional y la política Argentina de fin de siglo XIX, (Ed. Edhasa, forthcoming, April 2008); and is the editor of Construcciones impresas. Panfletos, diarios y revistas en la formación de los estados nacionales en América Latina, 1820-1920, (FCE, 2004). She has also published in top-ranking journals including the Journal of Latin American Studies (1993); the Hispanic American Historical Review (2007); and the leading journals in Argentina, including Desarrollo Económico, Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani", and Entrepasados. She has also contributed to several edited works.

Courses Taught:

Anth 158 Art and Culture
Anth 159 Symbolic Anthropology
Anth 172 Cultures of Central and South America
Anth 191 Anthropology in Performance
Anth 202 Proseminar: Sociocultural Anthropology
Anth 258 Anthropology of Art, Aesthetics, and Symbolism
Anth 259 Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology
Anth 272 Anthropology of Latin America

Last update: 09.28.07