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Katharine S. Bjork Manor Office 33C Education University of Chicago, Ph.D., Latin American History, 1998; M.A., Latin American History, 1989 University of California, Berkeley, A.B., English Literature, 1985 Dartmouth College, English Major, 1981-1983
Dissertation Incorporating an Empire: from Deregulating Labor to Regulating Leisure in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines, 1898-1909
Current Position Assistant Professor, History Department, Global Studies and Latin American Studies programs, Hamline University
Other Teaching Experience Community Faculty, History, Religious and Women’s Studies Department, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis-St. Paul, 2000 to 2002 Visiting Lecturer, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Winter 2001 Visiting Lecturer, University of Minnesota Department of History; I taught courses in colonial and modern Latin American history on an occasional basis from 1996 to 2000 Visiting Lecturer, Open University of Sri Lanka, Department of Language Studies, Spring 1999; taught course on Drama in English and developed course materials for literature program Visiting Lecturer, Macalester College, Department of History, Fall 1995; taught two courses in Latin American history Preceptor, University of Chicago, Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, 1994-95; led discussion section for the program's core social theory course, advised 19 first-year graduate students and supervised the research and writing of their masters theses
Grants and Fellowships Humanities Grant for "Brer Rabbit in the Philippines: Race and Empire in the Career of Robert Lee Bullard," 2009-2010 Dean’s Faculty Development Grant for "Prairie Imperialists," 2008-2009 Dean’s Faculty Development Grant (with Susan Myster): Bicentennial Lewis & Clark Expedition Field Course Development, 2005-2006 Dean’s Faculty Development Grant for ongoing research on “Charles Magoon: A Minnesotan Governor for Cuba, 1906-1909,” 2004-2005 Dean’s Faculty Development Grant (with Brian Hoffman and Barbara O'Connell): "Digging the Past: Capitalizing on Hamline's Sesquicentennial to Develop Interactive, Interdisciplinary, Community-Oriented research and Teaching for 2004 and Beyond, Summer, 2003 Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship in Sri Lanka, University of Peradeniya , January to June 2002 Visiting Junior Fellowship, University of Iowa Obermann Center for the Advanced Studies “Legacies of 1898: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines,” Iowa City, June-July, 1998 Ford Foundation-Johns Hopkins University Cuban Studies Program Research Fellowship for dissertation research in Cuba, July, 1993 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Cuban Ministry of Higher Education Research Grant, dissertation research in Cuba, July, 1993 Mellon Foundation Research Grant for dissertation research in Washington, D.C., April-June, 1993
Publications Book:
Articles: “Manila-Acapulco Trade,” in The Oxford Companion to Exploration, David Buisseret, ed., Oxford University Press, 2006 Review of Eileen J. Findlay, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 (Duke University Press, 2000), The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, Vol. 61, No. 1 (July, 2004) “Race and the Right Kind of Island: Immigration Policy in Hawaii and Cuba, 1899-1912,” in Studies in Pacific History: Social, Economic and Political History, Dennis Flynn, Arturo Giráldez, and James Sobredo eds., Burlington: Ashgate, 2002 “Protectorates and Dependencies of the United States,” and "Puerto Rico,” in The Oxford Companion to United States History, Paul Boyer, ed., Oxford University Press, 2001 "The Link that Kept the Philippines Spanish: Mexican Merchant Interests and the Manila Trade, 1571-1815,"Journal of World History, vol. 9, no.1, March 1998
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