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    Margaret Power

    Associate Professor, History; Pre-Law Advisor

    Humanities

    Office: SH 211
    Office Hours:
    Phone: 312.567.6921
    Fax: 312.567.5187
    Email: power@iit.edu
    Web: Margaret Power's webpage

    Expertise

    • Latin America (Chile and Puerto Rico); women; gender; human rights.

    Education

    • BA Georgetown University;
    • MA San Francisco State;
    • PhD University of Illinois at Chicago.

    Curriculum Vitae

    Research & Major Accomplishments

    Current Projects

    • Current Project: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; Members of the Chilean military who opposed Pinochet.

    Awards/Honors

    • Julia Beveridge Award.

    Patents

    Books

    • Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973; Right-Wing Women around the World: From Conservatives to Extremists.

    Selected Publications

    The Engendering of Anti-Communism and Fear in Chiles 1964 Presidential Election, Diplomatic History. Forthcoming.

    Is Democracy in the Classroom Possible? Radical History Review, Forthcoming.

    Repression and Resistance, Hatred and Hope: Civilian Life during the Military Dictatorship, in Daily Life of Civilians during Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America, ed. Pedro Santoni, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008.

    Right-Wing Women's Movements and Gender Ideologies. In Battleground: Women and Gender. Ed. Amy Lind.Greenwood Publishing, 2008.

    The Most Revolutionary Figure in Chile is La Mujer: Narratives of the Anti-Allende Women's Movement,” in Revolucionaraias.  Conflict and Gender in Latin American Narratives by Women.  Eds.  Par Kumaraswami and Niamh Thornton, Oxford, England and Bern, Switzerland:  Peter Lang, 2007.

    “La mujer conservadora en Brasil y Chile,” in Historia de las Mujeres en España y America Latina, Madrid: Editorial, Catedra, 2006.

    “Right-Wing Men in Chile,” in Third World Men:  An Anthology, ed. Adam Jones, London: England, Zed Press, 2006.

    “U.S. Foreign Policy,” in The Red Scare After 1945, in the History in Dispute Series.  Manly, Inc. 2006

    “La mujer de la derecha en América Latina y en el mundo: Una perspectiva comparativa,” Revista de Estudios Historicos, vol. 2, no. 1, August 2005, www.estudioshistoricos.uchile.cl

     “Gender, Modernity, and Technology: Chile under Four Regimes,” Rockefeller Archives Research Reports, January 2005, http://archive.rockefeller.edu/publications/resrep/rronlinenew.php

    "More Than Mere Pawns: Right-Wing Women in Chile," Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 16,No. 3, 2004.

    “Gender and Chile's Split Culture:  Continuing Contradictions in Women’s Lives,” ReVista, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard, May 2004.

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    Editorial Board Service

    Professional Society Service

    Grants

    Community Service

    Lauren Joyce
    B.S. in Professional and Technical Communication, 2006

    Lauren Joyce earned her bachelor's in Professional and Technical Communication in 2006 specializing in web design and minoring in sociology and psychology. more...

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