Victoria Langland
Victoria Langland
Assistant Professor

E: vlangland@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-1632
O: 3221 SSH
Academic Biography
Visiting Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2009; 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

Professor Langland will be on leave Fall and Winter quarters of AY 2009/2010.


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


Selected Publications

“Coming Home to Praia de Flamengo: The Once and Future National Student Union Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” in Michael J. Lazzara and Vicky Unruh, eds. Telling Ruins in Latin America, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

“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.

"Academic Anniversaries and Commemorative Conferences: History and Memory at the 40th Anniversary of 1968,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 1:2, 2008, 243-245.

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
Graduate Courses: History 201I: Twentieth-Century Latin American History (S/07); History 201 Q:Gender and Memory in Comparative Perspective (W/08); History 201I: History and Memory in Latin America (W/09)

Undergraduate Courses: History 7B: Latin America in the Middle Period, 1700-1900; History 7C: History of Latin America, 1900-Present; History 102J: The Politics of Memory in Chile and Argentina; History 159: Women and Gender in Latin American History; History 163B: History of Brazil; History 165: Latin American Social Revolutions since 1900


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