Karen Robert

Department of History
Associate Professor, (2000)
Honours BA (Queen's), MA and PhD (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)

email: robert@stu.ca

Courses Taught

History 1006 - World History
History 2406 - The Making of the Atlantic World
History 2613 - Colonial Latin America
History 2623 - Modern Latin America
History 3613 - Gender and Power in Latin American History
History 4606 - Twentieth Century Latin America

Research Interests

Latin American History, Urban History, Colonialism and Imperialism

Selected Publications

"New Year in Cuba: Mary Gardner Lowell's Travel Diary, 1831-1832", Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.

"Les aides familiales au Québec: Pour des conditions de travail justes" Montreal: Association des aides familiales du Québec, 2001.

"Fair Trade : Citizens' Groups Bartering their Way to Better Communities" Hour (Montreal) Vol. 7, no. 5 (Feb. 4-10, 1999), p. 8.

"The Argentine Babel: Space, Politics, and Culture in the Growth of Buenos Aires, 1852-1890" PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 1997.

" Crime and Punishment : Review of Horacio Verbitsky's The Flight : Confessions of a Dirty Warrior" In these Times (Jan. 1997), p. 24.

"Argentina : The Unofficial Story" NACLA Report on the Americas 27 : 5 (March/April 1994), pp. 11-14. Co-authored with Rodrigo Gutiérrez Hermelo.

"Slavery and Freedom in the Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1868-1878," Slavery and Abolition 13:3 (Dec. 1992): 181-200. [refereed]

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