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

Contact Info:

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

Teaching (Fall 2008):

• HISTORY 105S.01, GATEWAY SEMINAR Synopsis

  Carr 242, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

• HISTORY 155.01, MEXICO SINCE BEFORE CORTES Synopsis

  Carr 103, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

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

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.