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Alejandra Boza

Email: alb159@pitt.edu

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Fields

Latin America / Race, Ethnicity and Gender

MA Research Topic

Nation-States, Indians, and Missionaries on Tropical Borderlands:

Talamanca (Costa Rica) and Tierradentro (Colombia), 1890-1950

My research explores how local, national, and international actors intersected in shaping the history of the indigenous areas of Latin America, by focusing on the interactions between nation-states, Catholic missionaries, and Indians during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In order to do this I will analyze the indigenous communities that inhabited the borderland areas of Colombia and of Costa Rica where priests of the Congregation of the Mission did missionary work among

Indians: Talamanca in Costa Rica and Tierradentro in Colombia.

I am interested in understanding how the relationships among nation-states, Indians, and missionaries shaped not only the indigenous communities' lives, but also the building of the nation-states and, in this way, the world that current indigenous movements across the continent are trying to change.

Teaching experience:

Teaching Assistantships
World War 2 in Asia (Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2008)

Western Civilization II (Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2008)

Western Civilization I (Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2007)

Stand Alone Courses
Taller de Investigación II (Universidad de Costa Rica, Maestría Centroamericana en Historia)

Introducción a la Historia y técnicas para su estudio I (Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Historia)

Introducción a la Historia y técnicas para su estudio II (Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Historia)

Historia de Centroamérica con énfasis en Costa Rica (Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Historia)

Historia de las Instituciones de Costa Rica (Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Historia)

Seminario de Historia de Costa Rica (Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Historia)

Género y diversidad cultural en Centroamérica (Universidad Nacional, Escuela de Historia)

Conference Presentations:

Seminario de Investigación Historia Regional de Centroamérica y el Caribe. Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central, Posgrado Centroamericano de Historia, University of Costa Rica. Department of History, University of Pittsburgh.San Jose, Costa Rica, May 14-18, 2007. Proceeding: “Indians and Missionaries on Tropical Frontiers: Vincentians in Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia, 1890-1950”

2007 Annual Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference, February 22-23. Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Proceeding: “Costa Rican Indians and the State: Indian Reservations and Indigenist Policies, 1930-1970”.

Conference: “Los movimientos campesinos e indigenistas en América Central”, part of the course “Movimientos sociales en la América Central contemporánea”, of Posgrado Centroamericano de Historia (Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine-France and Universidad de Costa Rica), May 22-26, 2006. Proceeding: “Ciudadanía y reservas indígenas en Costa Rica, siglo XX”, May 24.

Jornadas de Investigación 2005, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central, University of Costa Rica. San Jose, December 6-9, 2005. Proceeding: “El estado costarricense y los indígenas: la primera época de las reservas indígenas, 1930-1970”

V Congreso Centroamericano de Historia. San Salvador, El Salvador, July 18-21, 2000. Proceeding with Juan Carlos Solorzano: “La soberanía del estado en Talamanca y Guatuso. Costa Rica, 1821-1921”.

Publications:

Peer-reviewed journal articles

"La población indígena de la Gran Talamanca: tamaño y ubicación. Costa Rica, 1840-1927,” Revista de Historia 51-52, (enero-diciembre 2005).

"Política en la Talamanca indígena: el Estado nacional y los caciques. Costa Rica, 1840-1922,” Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos 29, no. 1-2, (2003), 113-145.

With Juan Carlos Solórzano. “El estado nacional y los indígenas: el caso de Talamanca y Guatuso. Costa Rica, 1821-1910,” Revista de Historia 42, (julio-diciembre 2000),  45-79.

Others

Tiempos de reflexión: la primera polémica historiográfica costarricense. Boza, Alejandra, David Díaz y Eugenia Ibarra (ed.). San José: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2007.

"Costa Rica, un esbozo histórico”. Dirección de Arquitectura y Vivienda de la Consejería de Obras Públicas del Gobierno Autónomo de Andalucía- Colegio de Arquitectos de Costa Rica. Guía de arquitectura de Costa Rica. (in press)

"Ser ciudadano en los tiempos de Juan Rafael Mora”. Suplemento especial "Campaña Nacional 1856-1857”, Semanario Universidad, 16-22 marzo 2006, 3.

Fellowships, Awards:

Department of History, University of Pittsburgh. C.Y. Hsu Summer Research Fellowship. Summer 2008.

Department of History, University of Pittsburgh. A&S Summer Fellowship. Summer 2008.

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Graduate Student Field Research Grant. Summer 2008.

University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

International Studies Fund. Summer 2008.

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Graduate Student Field Research Grant. Summer 2007.

University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. International Studies Fund. Summer 2007.

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Latin American Social and Public Policy Fellowship. September 2006-April 2007.

 

 

 

 
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