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Tamera L. Marko, Mellon Lecturing Fellow

Contact Info:
Office Location:  Art Building, East Campus, Room 200-T
Office Phone: +1 919 660 7095, 919 660 4368
E-mail Address:  send me a message

Typical Courses Taught:

  • Writing 20, Cell phones to designer babies: technologies and social relations in our everyday lives Synopsis
  • Writing 20, Cell phones to designer babies Synopsis
Office Hours:

Wed & Fri 2:15-3:30 & by appointment
Drop-ins welcome
Education:
  • PhD, University California, San Diego, 2006
  • MS, University California, San Diego, 1996

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  • "Mothers and Doctors, Wet-Nurses and Pediatricians: Childhood Medicine and Cultural Legacies of slavery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1874-1939." Women, Ethnicity, and Medical Authority: Historical Perspectives on Reproductive Health in Latin America 21 (July, 2004). July, 2004
    <http://repositories.cdlib.org/cilas/papers/21>
  • with James E. Wadsworth. "Children of the Pátria: Representations of Childhood and Welfare State Ideologies at the 1922 Rio de Janeiro International Expositions." The Americas: A quarterly review of Inter-American Cultural History 58.1 (July, 2001). [htm]
  •  "Julyan G. Peard's Race, Place and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine". Luso-Brazilian Review 38:2 (Winter, 2001).
  •  ""This Journey's Hour"."  University California, San Diego entry selection for the 2001 Poet Laureate Competition, 2001.  [abs]

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