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Sandra Mcgee Deutsch Home Address: Department of History 240 Clairemont Dr Sandra McGee Deutsch Home Address: Department of History 240 Clairemont Dr. University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX 79912 El Paso, TX 79968 (915) 833-7193 (915) 747-7066 [email protected] Academic Background Newberry Library Summer Institute in Quantitative Methods, 1980. University of Florida, Ph.D. History, Certificate in Latin American Studies, 1979. University of Vienna, summer courses in European history and German, 1974. University of Florida, M.A. Latin American Studies, 1973. Beloit College, B.A. History, Summa Cum Laude, 1972. Academic Appointments Full Professor 1995- present, University of Texas at El Paso. Visiting Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug.-Nov. 2000. Visiting Professor, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina, Summer 1998. Associate Professor 1988-95, University of Texas at El Paso. Assistant Professor, 1984-88, University of Texas at El Paso. Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of Latin American Studies, DePaul University, 1981-84. Assistant Professor, Manchester College, 1979-81. Visiting Lecturer, Indiana University, Spring 1979. Selected Awards University of Texas at El Paso, College of Liberal Arts, Outstanding Faculty Award in the Humanities, 2016. University of Texas at El Paso Arts and Humanities Career Enhancement Award, 2013. (research in Argentina) Latin American Jewish Studies Association, 2011 Book Award, for best book on Latin American Jewish Studies published between 2008 and 2010 (for Crossing Borders, 2010). Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Timmons Professorship of Borderlands History, University of Texas at El Paso, 2008-2013. (Endowed Chair) (research trips to Argentina) NEH Faculty Research Award for Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving and Tribal Colleges and Universities, 2005-06. (writing Crossing Borders) Littauer Foundation Grant, 2001. (London, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem) University of Texas at El Paso Faculty Development Leave, 2000-2001. (Argentina, London, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem) Fulbright Researcher/Lecturer Grant, 2000. (Argentina) University of Texas at El Paso Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence, 2000. University of Florida Library Travel Grant, Summer 1999. University of Texas at El Paso University Research Grant, Summer 1997. (Argentina) NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, 1993. (writing Las Derechas) American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1989-90. (Chile and Brazil) 1 Social Science Research Council Grant, 1989-90. (I had to turn this down because one could not hold it and an ACLS grant simultaneously.) Fulbright American Republics Research Grant, 1989-90. (Chile and Brazil) NEH Travel to Collections Grant, Summer 1988. (Library of Congress) University of Texas at El Paso University Research Grant, Summer 1988. (Library of Congress) American Historical Association Beveridge Grant, Summer 1987. (Argentina) American Philosophical Society Research Grant, Summer 1987. (Argentina) University of Texas at El Paso University Research Grant, Summer 1985. (U.C.L.A. Library) University of Texas at El Paso-U.T. Austin Faculty Exchange Program, Summer 1985 (U.T.- Austin Library). NEH Summer Stipend Fellowship, 1981. (Argentina) Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Grant, 1977. (Argentina) Ph.D. Qualifying Exams passed with honors, 1976. N.D.E.A Title VI Fellowship, 1974-76. University of Florida Graduate Council Fellowship, 1972-73. Phi Kappa Phi Phi Sigma Iota Phi Beta Kappa Beloit College History Department Award, 1972. Selected Publications (* indicates peer reviewed) Monographs Cruzar fronteras, reclamar una nación. Historia de las mujeres judías argentinas, 1880-1955. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018.* Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2010.* Winner of Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Prize, 2011. Las derechas. La extrema derecha en la Argentina, el Brasil y Chile, 1890-1939. Buenos Aires: Univ. Nacional de Quilmes, 2005. Contrarrevolución en la Argentina, 1900-1932. La Liga Patriótica Argentina. Buenos Aires: Univ. Nacional de Quilmes, 2003. Las derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1999.* Counterrevolution in Argentina, 1900-1932: The Argentine Patriotic League. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1986.* Edited Collections Co-editor (with Kathleen M. Blee). Women of the Right: Comparisons and Interplay across Borders. Univ.Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2012.* Co-editor (with Ronald H. Dolkart). La derecha argentina. Nacionalistas, neoliberales, militares y clericales. Buenos Aires: Javier Vergara, 2001. (Expanded ed. of The Argentine Right.) Co-editor (with Ronald H. Dolkart). The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins, 1910 to the Present. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1993.* Editor. “Women in Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Special issue of Studies in Third World Societies 15 (1982). 2 Selected Articles and Book Chapters “’La liberación de la mujer.’ Conflictos, (des)encuentros, y paralelismos entre mujeres derechistas y progresistas en América Latina durante las décadas de 1920 y 1930.” In Las derechas ibero-americanas entre la Gran Guerra y la Gran Depresión, ed. Ernesto Bohoslavsky, David Jorge, and Clara E. Lida. México, D.F.: El Colegio de México, in press.* “’An Army of Women’: Communist-Linked Solidarity Movements, Maternalism, and Political Consciousness in Argentina, 1930s-1940s.” The Americas 75, no. 1 (2018): 1-31.* “Hands Across the Río de la Plata: Argentine and Uruguayan Antifascist Women, 1941-1945.” Revista Contemporánea (Montevideo, Uruguay) 8 (2017): 29-54.* “Mujeres comunistas de Latinoamérica y España: temas y reflexiones.” In Queridas camaradas. Historias iberoamericanas de mujeres comunistas, 1935-1975, ed. Adriana María Valobra and Mercedes Yusta Rodrigo, 255-274. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila, 2017.* “Insecure Whiteness: Jews between Civilization and Barbarism, 1880s-1940s.” In Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina: Shades of the Nation, ed. Eduardo Elena and Paulina Alberto, 25-52. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2016.* “Argentine Women Against Fascism: The Junta de la Victoria, 1941-1947.” Politics, Religion and Ideology, Special Issue on Fascism, 3, no. 2 (2012): 221-236.* “Fascismo, Neo-Fascismo, ou Pos-Fascismo? Chile, 1945-1988.” Diálogos (Univ. Estadual de Maringá, Brazil) 12, no. 3 (2009): 19-44. “Volviéndose argentinas: mujeres judías, educación y formación del estado en el campo, 1889- 1945.” In Historia social e historia oral. Experiencias en la historia reciente de Argentina y América Latina, ed. Laura Pasquali, 25-46. Rosario, Argentina: Homo Sapiens, 2008. “Argentine Jewish Women and the Revision of History.” In Rethinking Jewish Latin Americans, ed. Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein, 161-186. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2008.* “Argentina.” In Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer. Tel Aviv: Shalvi, 2007. (CD-Rom) “Contra ‘el gran desorden social’: Los nacionalistas y la sexualidad, 1919-1940.” Sociohistórica (Cuadernos del CISH) (La Plata, Argentina) 17/18 (2006): 127-150.* "A Journey Through My Life and Latin American Jewish Studies." In Memory and Oblivion in Modern Jewish Culture in Latin America, ed. Marjorie Agosín, 61-74. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. “Christians, Homemakers, and Transgressors: Extreme Right-Wing Women in Twentieth- Century Brazil.” Journal of Women’s History 16, no. 3 (2004): 124-137.* “Verso un’internazionale nazionalista: le relazioni internazionali della Liga Patriótica Argentina, 1919-1922.” Ricerche di Storia Politica (Milan, Italy) 5, no.2 (2002): 193-212.* “Spartan Mothers: Fascist Women in Brazil in the 1930s.” In Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists around the World, ed. Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power, 155- 167. New York: Routledge, 2002.* “Spreading Right-Wing Patriotism, Femininity, and Morality: Women in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1900-1940.” In Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right, ed. Victoria González and Karen Kampwirth, 223-248. Univ. Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2001.* “What Difference Does Gender Make? The Extreme Right in the ABC Countries in the Era of 3 Fascism.” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe (Tel Aviv) 8, no. 2 (1997): 5-21.* “Women: The Forgotten Half of Argentine Jewish History.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 15, no. 3 (1997): 49-65.* “Anti-Semitism and the Chilean Movimiento Nacional Socialista, 1932-1941.” In The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America, ed. David Sheinin and Lois Baer Barr, 161-182. New York: Garland Press, 1996.* (With Sergio González Miranda and Carlos Maldonado Prieto). “Las Ligas Patrióticas: un caso de nacionalismo, xenofobia y lucha social en Chi1e.” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism 21 (1994): 57-69.* “Afterword." In "Changing Images of the Brazilian Woman: Studies of Female Sexuality in Literature, Mass Media, and Criminal Trials, 1884-1992." Special issue of Luso-Brazilian Review 30, no. 1 (1993): 107-117.* “La mujer y la derecha en Argentina, Brazil y Chile, 1900-1940.” In Historia y género, ed. Dora Barrancos, 98-126. Buenos Aires: CEAL, 1993. “The Right under Radicalism, 1916-1930.” In The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins, 1910 to the Present, ed. Sandra McGee Deutsch and Ronald H. Dolkart, 35-64. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1993.* “The Catholic Church, Work, and Womanhood in Argentina, 1890-1930." Gender and History
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