Jocelyn H Olcott, Faculty of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Associate Professor of History

Contact Info:

On leave 2009-2010. Please contact via e-mail.

Office Location:	315 Carr Bldg., Box 90719
Office Phone:	(919) 668-5298
Email Address:

Education:

PhD	Yale University	2000
MA	Yale University	1996
AB	Princeton University	1992

Specialties:

Latin America
19th and 20th Centuries
Gender
Labor
Politics
Social
Women

Research Interests:

Current projects: UN International Women's Year, Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Mexico

I work on feminist history of modern Mexico. My first book, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, explores questions of gender and citizenship in the 1930s. I am currently working on two book-length projects: a history of the 1975 UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City (under contract with Oxford University Press), and a biography of the activist and folksinger Concha Michel. I am also developing a long-term project on the labor, political, and conceptual history of motherhood in twentieth-century Mexico.

Keywords:

Mexico • gender • feminism • labor

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Katharine E. French-Fuller  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005), Duke University Press  [abs]
2. Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano. eds., Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (2006), Duke University Press
3. Jocelyn Olcott, Miracle Workers: Gender and State Mediation among Textile and Garment Workers in Mexico's Transition to Industrial Development, International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 63 (December, 2003)
4. Jocelyn Olcott, 'Worthy Wives and Mothers': State-Sponsored Women's Organizing in Postrevolutionary Mexico, The Journal of Women's History, vol. 13 no. 4 (Winter, 2002), pp. 106-131
5. Review Essay: Exploring Identity in Latin American History, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 30 no. 4 (2003), pp. 107-119

Recent Grant Support

• The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History: International Women’s Year and the Birth of Postmodern Feminism, 2007/09-2008/06.      
• Freedom Fighters: Regime Change and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2008/01.      
• Duke University Arts and Sciences Council Faculty Research Grant, 2007/07.