Associate Professor of History

B.A. (1985) Northwestern University

A.M. (1989) Stanford University

M.A. (1990) University of Wisconsin, Madison

Ph.D. (1997) University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Roger.A.Kittleson@williams.edu

Stetson B23

413.597.2537

 

Office Hours

Wednesdays 10:00-12:00 and by appointment.

 

Courses

HIST 148: The Mexican Revolution: 1910 to NAFTA

HIST 242: Latin America from Conquest to Independence

HIST 243: Modern Latin America

HIST 342: Creating Nations and Nationalism in Latin America

HIST 346: History of Modern Brazil, 1822 to the Present

HIST 443: Slavery, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

HIST 492T: History of Revolutionary Thought in Latin America

 

Research

Gender, race, and region in modem Brazil

Sport and sexual identities

History of ideas in Latin America

Political cultures of Brazil

 

Thesis Students

Christine Emily Rodríguez, ’06, “Apathy Revisited: Claim to Place by Puerto Rican Housing Organizations in Manhattan and Philadelphia, 1968-1985”

Joel Hebert, '04, "Un-American Pastime:  International Scouting in Major League Baseball"

Adriel Cepeda-Derieux, '05, "Sister Flags:  Cuban and Puerto Rican Independence Movements in New York City"

 

Selected Publications

Books:

The Practice of Politics in Post-Colonial Brazil: Porto Alegre, 1845-1895 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).

Race, Region, and Masculinity in Brazilian Futebol, 1950-1994 (in progress)

Essays:

"Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism," in Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World, ed. Diana Paton and Pamela Scully (Duke University Press, 2005)

"The Paraguayan War and Political Culture in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1865-80," in I Die With My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, ed. Thomas Whigham and Hendrik Kraay (University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

"Jacobina Maurer, German-Brazilian Mystic," in The Human Tradition in Modem Brazil, ed. Peter Beattie (Scholarly Resources, 2004)

'"Campaign All of Peace and Charity': Gender and the Politics of Abolitionism in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1879-1 888," Slavery and Abolition (December 2001)

"'Ideas Triumph Only After Great Contests of Sorrow': Popular Classes and Political Ideas in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1889-1893," in Liberals, Politics, and Power: State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, ed. Vincent C. Peloso and Barbara Tenenbaum (University of Georgia Press, 1996)