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Jocelyn Olcott, Assistant Professor, History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	314 Classroom Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-3014
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• HISTORY 121.01, INTRO CONTEM LATIN AMER Synopsis

  Class Bldg 137, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as ICS 121.01, LATAMER 121.01)

Office Hours:

Weds. 2:30-4:30 or by appointment.

Education:

Ph.D.	Yale University	2000
M.A.	Yale University	1996
AB	Princeton University	1992
B.A.	Princeton University	1992

Specialties:

Gender
Labor and Working Class History
Comparative Colonial Studies
Global Transnational History
Latin America and the Caribbean
Global and Comparative

Research Interests:

Current projects: UN International Women's Year, Concha Michel, 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:

Latin America • Mexico • U.S. • History • Gender

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Robert Franco  
• Jes Malitoris  
• Yuri Ramirez  
• Paola Reyes  
• Corinna H Zeltsman  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Olcott, J, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005), Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php]  [abs]
2. Olcott, J; Vaughan, MK; Cano, G, Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (2006), Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php]
3. Olcott, J, Empires of Information: Media Strategies for 1975 International Women’s Year, Journal of Women’s History, vol. 24 no. 4 (2012), pp. 24-48, Johns Hopkins University Press [doi]  [abs]
4. Olcott, J, Introduction: Research and Rethinking the Labors of Love, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 91 no. 1 (2011), pp. 1-27, Duke University Press [doi]  [author's comments]
5. Olcott, J, A happier marriage? Feminist history takes the transnational turn, in Making Women S Histories Beyond National Perspectives, edited by Nadell, P; Haulman, K (December, 2013), pp. 237-258, New York University Press, ISBN 9780814758908
6. Olcott, J, Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Performing Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City, Gender and History, vol. 22 no. 3 (November, 2010), pp. 733-754, WILEY [doi]  [abs]
7. Olcott, J, ‘Take Off That Streetwalker’s Dress’: Concha Michel and the Cultural Politics of Gender in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Journal of Women’s History, vol. 21 no. 3 (Fall, 2009), pp. 36-59 [repository], [doi]  [abs]