Victoria Langland
Victoria Langland
Assistant Professor

E: vlangland@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-1632
O: 3221 SSH
Academic Biography
Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Lecturer in History, Princeton University, 2005-2006; Assistant Professor of History, Lafayette College, 2004-2005; Lecturer in History, Lafayette College, 2003-2004


Research Interests
Latin American social, cultural, political and gender history; history of Brazil; history and memory; transnational American history


Selected Publications

“Birth Control Pills and Molotov Cocktails: Reading Sex and Revolution in 1968 Brazil,” in In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.

“Il est Interdit d’Interdire: The Transnational Experience of 1968 in Brazil,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 17:1 (Jan-June 2006).

‘Neste Luto Começa a Luta’: La muerte de estudiantes y la memoria,” in Elizabeth Jelin and Diego Sempol, eds. El pasado en el futuro: los movimientos juveniles, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2006; 21-64.

Co-Editor (with Elizabeth Jelin), Monumentos, memoriales y marcas territoriales. Series edited by Elizabeth Jelin, Memorias de la represión. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2003.



Courses Taught
I have taught courses on Colonial and Modern Latin America; race and gender in Latin America; the politics of memory in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; gender and sexuality in Modern Latin America, the cultural history of US-Latin American relations; and the Cuban Revolution.


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