Jocelyn H Olcott
| Title: | Associate Professor and Associate Chair |
| Office Location: | 201 Carr |
| Office Phone: | (919) 668-5298 |
| Email Address: | olcott@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- On sabbatical 2009-2010.
Education
- PhD Yale University, 2000
- MA Yale University, 1996
- AB Princeton University, 1992
Research Interests
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.
Current Projects
UN International Women's Year, Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Top Young Historian, History New Network, April, 2007
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professorship, Duke University, September, 2006 - August, 2007
Representative Publications
Books- Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Duke University Press, 2005). [abs]
- Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano. eds., "Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico" (Duke University Press, 2006).
- 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 63 (December, 2003).
- Jocelyn Olcott. "'Worthy Wives and Mothers': State-Sponsored Women's Organizing in Postrevolutionary Mexico." The Journal of Women's History 13:4 (Winter, 2002): 106-131.
- "Review Essay: Exploring Identity in Latin American History". Latin American Perspectives 30:4 (2003): 107-119.