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Graduate Program in History

Gillian McGillivray

Degrees:  Ph.D. Georgetown University, History, 2002; M.A. Georgetown University, Latin American Studies, 1997; B.A.(Honours) Dalhousie University, Spanish and History, 1994

 
Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of History, Glendon College, York University
 
Recent Publications:

Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and Politics in Cuba, 1868-1959. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming fall, 2009.

“Reading Revolution from Below: Cuba, 1933 and 1959,” in Latin America from the Wars of Independence to the Drug Wars. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008.

"Revolution in the Cuban Countryside:  The Blazing Cane of Las Villas 1895-1898" Cuban Studies 38 (2007): 50-81.

 

Courses taught recently:

 

HIST 5950 Class and Community in Latin America, W 2007


HIST 2200 Introduction à l’histoire de l’Amérique latine


HIST 3212 Revolutions in Modern Latin America, 2007/2008


HIST 2200 Introduction to Latin American History, 2007/2008


HIST 3670 Brazil in the Era of Globalization, XXth C., W 2007


HIST 3675 Brazil in the Atlantic World, XVI-XIXth C., F 2007


Research Interests: Social History, Revolutions, Populism, State-formation, Microhistory, Twentieth-Century Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Central America.

 

Awards/Grants: 
2007: Merit Award, Glendon College, York University


2003-2004: SSHRC, McGill University, post-doctoral (Mexico)


2003: Best Dissertation in the Humanities, Georgetown U.


2001: Coordinating Council for Women in History


2001: University of Florida, Library travel grant


1999-2001: SSHRC, Georgetown University, dissertation (Cuba)


1995-2001: Georgetown MA, PhD Merit Scholarship/Fellowship