Associate Professor - Department Chair
Office Location: WT 222
Phone Number: (262) 472-1103
Email Address: meisels@uww.edu

Degrees:

B.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D. 1998 Stanford University.

Areas of Teaching:

Latin America, Comparative Race Relations, Atlantic History, Historical Methods, Senior Seminar.

Courses Taught:

Conquest and Colonialism in Latin America, Modern Latin America, Modern Latin America in Film, History of Mexico, Revolutionary Change in Latin America, Atlantic World, Western Civilization, Historical Methods, Senior Seminar.

Select  Presentations/Publications:

" 'Worthy of the Fruit of Freedom': Argentine Slaves and Military Service in the Early Nineteenth Century," in Jane Landers, ed. Slaves, Subjects and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006):  273-305. 

 

"Petitions and Political Participation in Early Republican Argentina,"  Center for Latin American Studies, University of Maryland, 2003.  Working Paper No. 7.

 

"The Politics of Seduction:  Mutiny and Mass Desertion in Early Independence Argentina," in Jane Hathaway, ed., Rebellion, Repression and Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Contexts (Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press, 2001), pp. 131-143.

 

 

Website:

 

http://facstaff.uww.edu/meisels/meiselhomepage.htm