Education MARÍA GRACIELA ABARCA Av. Francisco Beiró 3934 7 D Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina 4504-8931 15-6499-2467- mga.argentina@gmail.com Doctorate in History Department of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Thesis: Discontented, but not Inevitably Reactionary: Organized Labor in the Nixon Years, September 2001 Master s Degree in History Department of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A. May 1996 Specialization in U.S. History Instituto Nacional de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández (Teachers Training College in Foreign Languages) Thesis: Vietnam on the Home Front December 1992 Teacher of English as a Foreign Language Instituto Nacional de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández. (Teachers Training College in Foreign Languages) Teacher of English as a Foreign Language March 1990 Teaching Experience University Level - Argentina University of Buenos Aires School of Economics Master s Program in Economic History and Economic Policies Course: World Economic History Modules on Economic History of the United States Since 2007 Universidad del Salvador School of History, Geography and Tourism Extension Courses on the History of the 20 th Century Since 2008 Universidad Austral International Programs Course: Cultural Identity, Multiculturalism and Film in Comparative Perspective: Hollywood Movies and Argentine Independent Cinema Since 2011 Instituto Nacional de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández (Teachers Training College in Foreign Languages) English Teachers Training Program and English Translators Program 1
Course: History of the United States Since 1992 Centro Lincoln University College (C-LUC) Course: U.S. History II La Lucila, Buenos Aires First Semester of 2008 Universidad del Salvador School of Philosophy, History and Letters Course: The Cold War: its political and cultural impact on the History of the Twentieth Century First Semester of 2007 University of Buenos Aires School Philosophy and Letters Department of History Course: History of the United States of America 2004 2007 University of Buenos Aires School of Philosophy and Letters Department of History Seminar: U.S. Organized Labor and the New Deal: Its unraveling and collapse, 1945-1975 First Semester of 2003 Teaching Experience University Level - U.S.A. Teaching positions at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A. Department of History Teaching Assistant Course: Western Civilization 1600 to the Present Fall Semester 1997 Graduate Instructor Course: American Civilization 1876 to the Present June-August 1997 Teaching Assistant Course: The Kennedys Through Film Spring Semester 1997 Teaching Assistant Course: Western Civilization 1600 to the Present Fall Semester 1996 Teaching Experience Argentina High School Level Colegio Palermo Chico - Bilingual High School Course: Socio-Cultural Panorama of the Twentieth Century International Baccalaureate Since 2010 2
Colegio Santa Teresa del Niño Jesús - Bilingual High School Courses: English as a Foreign Language; British Literature; U.S. Literature; Modern European History International Certificate of Secondary Education 1991-1994 Professional Experience Fundación Centro de Estudios Americanos/ Center for American Studies Foundation Academic Coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Foundation s Journal, De Sur a Norte. Perspectivas Sudamericanas acerca de los Estados Unidos. Duties: *Development and coordination of seminars and special programs on the U.S. and on the U.S.- Argentine relations for local leaders. *Coordination of research projects on specific topics related to the U.S. and Argentina *Edition of all the Foundation s publications Since August 2006 International Hispanic Online University Duties: *Development of an on-line U.S. History Course in Spanish. Since August 2009. Expected end of contract: January 30 th, 2009 Fulbright Commission Educational Exchange Program between the United States and Argentina Program Officer and Educational Advisor May 1998- July 2006 Duties related to Educational Advising: *Advise Argentine grantees on study and research opportunities in the U.S. *Upon request, have an interview with Argentines interested in studying in the U.S. *Offer information sessions on the U.S. System of Higher Education for Argentines and on the Argentine System of Higher Education for Americans. *Develop informational material about higher education in the U.S. to be distributed among the general public. *Develop informational material on higher education in Argentina to be distributed at University fairs in the U.S. *Interview and select interns and coordinate their activities. Duties related to Program Coordination: *Oversee the coordination of all the Fulbright exchange programs between the U.S. and Argentina. *Participate in the selection process of the Argentine grantees. *Guide the grantees Argentine and American- in the selection of academic programs in the U.S. and Argentina respectively. *Revise admission essays and applications. *Organize orientation programs for Argentine grantees before their departure for the U.S. *Organize orientation programs for American grantees upon their arrival in Argentina. *Follow up on the activities and performance of all Argentine and American grantees. Fundación Centro de Estudios Americanos / Center for American Studies Foundation Visiting Lecturer in the Program for Argentine Leaders Topics: The American Civil War; 3
Economic Expansion and Industrial Development; The Great Depression and the New Deal; The U.S. Political System; Social Changes and Labor Relations; The U.S. as a World Power. 1998 to 2006 Publications Editorial coordination, De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos. Los Estados Unidos Latinos, Nro. 18, Vol. 10, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. El Destino Manifiesto y la construcción de una nación continental, en Fabio Nigra y Pablo Pozzi (comps.), Invasiones Bárbaras en la Historia Contemporánea de los Estados Unidos, Maipue, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 43-54. La descendencia equivocada : la comunidad japonesa de los Estados Unidos y los campos de detención durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos 17, Vol. 9, 2008, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 91-112. Editorial coordination, Las elecciones presidenciales de los Estados Unidos.Renovación del liderazgo en 2008. Fundación Centro de Estudios Americanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008. Entrevista, "La gran pregunta es: Estados Unidos está preparado para tener un president afroamericano?" Viernes de 16 de mayo de 2008. www.telam.com.ar URL:http://www.telam.com.ar/vernota.php?tipo=N&idPub=104623&id=227794&dis=1&sec=1 El Destino Manifiesto y la construcción de una nación continental, 1820-1865, en De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos 16, Vol. 8, 2007, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 41-53. Publicitando fábulas de abundancia en una tierra de deseo, en De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos 16, Vol. 8, 2007, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp.175-187. El sindicalismo norteamericano en el siglo XXI, en De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos 15, Vol. 8, 2007, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 199-213. Unemployment, Insecurity, and the Decline of Labor: 1970s, en Eric Arnesen, ed. Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, Volumen 3, Nueva York, Routledge, 2007, pp. 1403-1407. El Fin de la Ilusión: los trabajadores estadounidenses en la era de Vietnam, Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005. Editor, El Impacto Reagan, Fundación Centro de Estudios Americanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006. El destino manifiesto y la construcción de una nación continental, 1820-1865, en M. Graciela Abarca, et. alia (comp.) La Idea Americana. Fundación Centro de Estudios Americanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005. 4
Teaching U.S. History in Argentina, en OAH Newsletter. Organization of American Historians, Número 32, Volumen 4, noviembre 2004. Publicitando fábulas en una tierra de deseo. El surgimiento de una cultura consumista en los Estados Unidos, en Pablo Pozzi y Fabio Nigra (comp.)huellas Imperiales. Historia de los Estados Unidos de América. De la crisis de acumulación a la globalización capitalista, 1929-2000, Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003, pp. 51-63. El movimiento por los derechos civiles. Origenes y periodización, en Pablo Pozzi y Fabio Nigra (comp.)huellas Imperiales. Historia de los Estados Unidos de América. De la crisis de acumulación a la globalización capitalista, 1929-2000, Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003, pp. 267-277. Los orígenes del fascismo: una perspectiva historiográfica, en Taller: Revista de Sociedad, Cultura y Política 18, Vol. 6, 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 124-134. El movimiento documental en la era de la Gran Depresión: un desafío para los historiadores, en De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos 6, Vol. 4, 2001, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 93-104. Publicitando fábulas en una tierra de deseo. El surgimiento de una cultura consumista en los Estados Unidos, en Taller: Revista de Sociedad, Cultura y Política 7, 1998, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 187-201. La opinión pública y la guerra de Vietnam, en De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos, Vol., abril 1998, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 61-72. Cuál es la importancia de la clase trabajadora hoy en día? Entrevista con David Montgomery, New Haven, 18 de enero de 1997. Taller: Revista de Sociedad, Cultura y Política 4, 1997, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 30-43. Las causas de la Guerra Civil norteamericana: una perspectiva historiográfica, en De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos 1, 1996, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 71-78. Book Reviews: Work And Revolution In France: The Language Of Labour From The Old Regime To 1848, de William H. Sewell, Jr, Taller: Revista De Sociedad, Cultura y Política 18, Vol. 6, 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 236-238. Carl E. Schorske and Jacques Le Rider: Dos visiones de Viena a fines de siglo ; en Taller: Revista de Sociedad, Cultura y Política 2, 1996, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 161-168. Research Projects Research Project for the publication of the book Argentina y Estados Unidos: Dos Siglos de Historia, 1810-2010, edited and published by the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Public Affairs Office Grant July 2010-November 2010 Research Project on the Bilateral Relations between Argentina and the United States Funded by the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires 5
October 2006-July 2007 Research trip to the U.S. National Archives, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A. Funded by the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires February de 2007 Title: On Words and Silences. The creation of an Oral History Archive. University of Buenos Aires, Secretariat of Science and Technology Research Projects, 2004-2007 Doctoral Dissertation: Discontented but not Inevitably Reactionary: Organized Labor in the Nixon Years. Director: Dr. Kevin Boyle. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1996-1998 Title: Labor in the Sixties: The GE Strike. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. February May 1997 Title: Labor Unions and the Consumer Revolt. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. February May 1997 Title: Making a New Deal: The Workers, the Unions and the State. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September- December 1996 Title: Unraveling Consumer Culture: Problems of Definition, Periodization and Causality. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September December 1996 Title: The Congress of Industrial Organizations in the Postwar Era. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September-December 1996 Title: Advertising Fables of Abundance in a Land of Desire: The Emergence of American Consumer Culture. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September December 1996 Title: The Documentary Movement in the Depression Era: A Challenge to Historians. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September- December 1996 Title: Unraveling the Second Awakening: Religion and Labor Protest in Antebellum America. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September- December 1995 Title: Nineteenth-Century Yankee Reformers: Humanitarians or Social Controllers? University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September-December 1995. Title: The Knights of Labor: A Historiographical Perspective. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. June-August 1995 Title: Labor History in the United States: An Evaluation. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June-August, 1995 6
Title: Community Studies: A Comparative Perspective. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. June - August 1995 Title: Press Coverage of Auto and Steel Strikes, 1936-1937. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. February May 1995 Title: Anglo-American Racialism in the late Nineteenth Century. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. February- May 1995 Title: Populism: An Assessment. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. February-May 1995 Title: Cheap Amusements and the New Cultural History. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. February May 1995 Title: The Civil Rights Movement: An Assessment beyond trailblazers and torchbearers. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September-December 1994 Title: The Church in Antebellum America. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September- December 1994 Title: Civil War Causation. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September-December 1994 Thesis: Vietnam on the Home Front. Director: Prof. Cristina García Fernández. Instituto Superior del Profesorado en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1990-1992 Distinctions Diploma of Appreciation for Excellence in Teaching Awarded by the University of Massachusetts for the course American Civilization 1876 to the present August 1997 Fulbright Grant to pursue a Master s Program in History University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A 1994-1996 United States Information Agency Grant to participate in a summer seminar at Temple University, Philadelphia, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities June-July 1993 Specialization Courses The 1995 Fulbright Foreign Student Enrichment Seminar Participation in the seminar funded by the United States Information Agency 7
Topic: Government in Transition, New Perspectives and Challenges Washington DC., U.S.A, March 22 nd - 24 th, 1995. Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Study of the United States Funded by the United States Information Agency Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities Topic: The American Documentary Movement of the Thirties Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A June-July 1993. Conferences Annual Conference of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (NAGAP) Las Vegas, April, 2006. Academic Advisors Conference, Dartmouth College New Hampshire, May, 2005. Fulbright Program Peer Review Workshop Invited by the U.S. Department of State Presentation: Recommendations on the Selection of U.S. professors that apply to educational and cultural exchange programs. Washington, DC, October 2004. Annual Conference of the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) Topic: Charting New Visions Panel Presentation: The Advantages of Study Abroad in Latin America Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., May 2004 Professional Leadership Advising Program Professional Training Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Project I: The offer of graduate programs in the humanities and social sciences in the Washington DC area. Project II: Writing for Results, Washington DC. October 2003 Fulbright Program - Western Hemisphere Conference Meeting of U.S. diplomats, Fulbright program directors and program officers of the Americas Panel Presentation: The evolution and impact of exchange programs in Argentina. Punta del Este, Uruguay, 2003. U.S. Based Training Program U.S. Department of State grant to participate in a special training program for program officers and educational advisors. Panel Presentation: The Historic Development of U.S. Higher Education Washington D.C. and University of Alabama October November, 2001. Fulbright Commission Staff Workshop Meeting of Fulbright Program Officers from the 150 participating countries Panel Presentation: Higher Education in Argentina Washington D.C., June 3-7, 2001. 8
Annual Conference of the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) Developing a Creative Climate for International Education Panel Presentation: Trends in the Educational Exchanges between Argentina and the US. San Diego, California, U.S.A. May 2000 South American Conference of Educational Exchange Program Officers Professional Development: Path to Leadership Panel Presentation: Barriers to Intercultural Communication: The Experience of Argentine Students. Lima, Peru. April 2000 Annual Conference of the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) Emerging Frontiers for International Education Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. May 1999 Annual Conference of the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) Building Global Leadership Washington D.C., U.S.A. May 1998 Participation in Congresses X Congress of History Departments National University of Rosario School of Humanities and Arts, Department of History Title: Poverty, Reformism, and Social Control in the United States of the 19 th Century: The case of Worcester, Massachusetts. September 2005 VI National Congress of Oral History: A View from the Twenty-First Century Oral History Program, Institute of Anthropology, School of Philosophy and Letters University of Buenos Aires October 2003 IX Congress of History Departments National University of Cordoba School of Philosophy and Humanities, Department of History Title: La Vietnam War and Organized Labor September 2003 Argentine Association of American Studies, Foreign Languages Section, School of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires. Title: Public Opinion and the Vietnam War November 1993 9
Activities of University Extension Research Methodology Workshop Oral History Program University of Buenos Aires November 2003 Lecture Topics: What is social history? Social History and Social Theory Class, race and gender Tradition and culture History of Social Movements Evolution and Development of Social History Social History Methods and Techniques Social History Sources Member of Thesis Committee Member of Master s Thesis Committee Graduate Student: Leandro A. Morgenfeld, Argentina and the United States in the first eight Pan American Conferences Master s Program in Economic History and Economic Policies University of Buenos Aires July de 2007 10