The Program in Sexuality Studies at Duke

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

Curriculum Vitae

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

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

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 .
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].