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Miami University Department of History

Elena Albarrán

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Titles

  • Assistant Professor
  • Joint appointment in the History Department and in the Latin America, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies Program

Education

  • PhD 2008, University of Arizona
  • MA, University of Arizona
  • BA, Bowdoin College

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Modern Latin America
  • Revolutions and Social Movement
  • Comparative World Childhoods

Recently taught courses

  • HST/LAS 319 Revolution in Latin America
  • HST 360T Mexico 1810-1940
  • LAS 410/510 Latin American Issues

Selected Publication

  • "Guerrilla Warplay: The Infantilization of War in Latin American Popular Culture," Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, vol. 24 (2005).

Work in Progress

Dr. Albarrán’s teaching and research interests include revolution and social movement in Latin America, popular culture, modern Mexico, kitsch and commodification of Latin American icons. Her book project, Children of the Revolution: Constructing the Mexican Citizen, 1920-1940, examines the development of cultural nationalism through children’s popular culture in revolutionary Mexico.