Teresa Meade

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Teresa A. Meade (born 1948) is an American historian. A specialist in Latin American history, she was Professor of History and Culture at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Life

Teresa Ann Meade was born in Iowa in 1948.[1] She graduated with a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972. She gained her PhD from Rutgers University in 1984,[2] with a thesis on community protest in Rio de Janeiro between 1890 and 1917.[3]

Meade taught at Union College for many years. In 2000-2001 she was a Fulbright Lecturer in Tokyo.[4] She became Professor of History and Culture, remaining at Union College until her retirement.[when?]

She is a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective,[5] and has been president of the board of trustees of the Journal of Women's History.[6]

Works

  • (ed. with Mark Walker) Science, Medicine and Cultural Imperialism. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
  • "Civilizing" Rio : reform and resistance in a Brazilian city, 1889-1930. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
  • (ed. with Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks) A companion to global gender history. Blackwell, 2004. ISBN 0-631-22393-2 Second ed., 2020.
  • A brief history of Brazil. 2004.
  • A history of Latin America: 1800 to the Present. Chichester: Wiley, 2010. 2nd ed., 2016. 3rd ed, 2022.
  • We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014. Springer Nature, 2021.

References

  1. ^ "Meade, Teresa A., 1948-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  2. ^ "History Newsletter" (PDF). University of Wisconsin. p. 13. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  3. ^ Meade, Teresa Ann (1984). Community Protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, During the First Republic: 1890-1917 (PhD). Rutgers University.
  4. ^ "Professor Teresa Meade Presents at International Women's Conference in Uganda". November 1, 2002. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  5. ^ "Editorial Board". Radical History Review. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  6. ^ "Call for proposals to edit the Journal of Women's History". Memory Studies Association. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
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