Christine T. Ehrick
Department of History 1331 Highland Ave.
University of LouisvilleLouisville, KY 40204
Louisville, KY 40292502-568-1758
Phone: 502-852-3973
Fax: 502-852-0770
Email:
Education:
Ph.D. HistoryUniversity of California, Los Angeles1997
M.A. HistoryUniversity of California, Los Angeles1991
B.A. History/French LiteratureUniversity of California, San Diego1989
Recent Employment History:
2006-Present: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Louisville
2008 -2011: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Louisville
2001-2006: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Louisville
2000-2001: Instructor, University of California and California State University
1996-1999: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Northern Iowa
Publications:
Works in Progress/Press:
Radio and the Gendered Soundscape in Latin America: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930-1950. Under contract with Cambridge University Press. Expected publication Spring 2015.
Co-editor with Alejandra Bronfman of research forum “Sound and New Media in Latin America” forHispanic American Historical Review. Expected publication Spring 2015.
“Comedy and the Soundscape of Immigration in Buenos Aires: Tomas Simari’s ‘Un viaje en ómnibus.’” Research note and audio samples included in forum section of “Sound and New Media in Latin America” special issue of Hispanic American Historical Review, Alejandra Bronfman and Christine Ehrick, eds.
Review, Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943:Transmitting Nationhood. By Lauren Rea.Hispanic American Historical Review. Forthcoming 2014.
“Voice, Gender and Comedy in the Films of Niní Marshall, 1938-1955.” Article selected for inclusion in Locating the Voice in Film, Tom Whittaker and Sarah Wright, eds. Article manuscript due January 2015.
Book:
The Shield of the Weak: Feminism and the State in Uruguay, 1903-1933. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
This book is an extremely important contribution to political history and women’s studies in twentieth-century Latin America.
-Heidi Tinsman, American Historical Review
Ehrick has captured the underlying ambiguity of Batllista Uruguay, and, to her credit, she refuses to settle for a more simplistic interpretation.
-Peter Winn, Hispanic American Historical Review
Articles and Book Chapters:
“The Duty of the Moment.” Edited translation of radio speech by Paulina Luisi with brief introduction. nWomen and Gender in Modern Latin America, Pamela Murray ed. Routledge, 2014, pp.129-131.
“Radio Transvestism and the Gendered Soundscape in Argentina, 1930s-1940s.” In Sound Cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman and Andrew G. Wood, eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, pp.18-34.
“Il femminismi ispanici, pan-americani e atlantici, fra le due guerre.” [Hispanic, Pan-American, and Atlantic Feminism between the Wars]. Published in Genesis: Revista Della Società Italiana della Storiche. Vol. VIII No. 2, 2009 (Published November 2010). Special issue: Femminismi senza frontier [Feminism without borders]. pp. 41-64.
“Savage Dissonance”: Gender, Voice, and Women’s Radio Speech in Argentina, 1931-1941.” In Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, David Suisman and Susan Strasser, eds. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.Pp. 69-91.
“Sirvientas, asistencia pública y formación del estado en el Uruguay, 1910 á 1930.” InGénero y asistencia social en Latinoamérica, Yolanda Eraso, ed. Córdoba, Argentina: Ferreyra Editor. 2009.
“Beneficent Cinema: State Formation, Elite Reproduction and Silent Film in Uruguay 1910s-1920s”. Part of a special issue of The Americas on film and nation in Latin America. The Americas 63(2) October 2006, 205-224.
“To Serve the Nation: Domestic Servants, Social Assistance, and State Formation in Uruguay, 1910-1930”. Social Science History, Volume 29 No. 3 (Fall 2005), 489-518.
“Affectionate Mothers and the Colossal Machine: Feminism, Social Assistance and the State in Uruguay, 1910-1932". The Americas, Volume 58 No.1 (July 2001), 121-139.
“De Delmira a Paulina: erotismo, racionalismo y la emancipación femenina en el Uruguay, 1890-1930," in Delmira Agustini y el modernismo: nuevas propuestas de género, Tina Escaja ed. Buenos Aires: Editorial Beatríz Viterbo, 2000, 228-243.
“Madrinas and Missionaries: Uruguay and the Pan-American Women’s Movement,” Gender and History Vol. 10 No.3 (November 1998), 406-424. Republished in Mrinalini Sinha et al (eds.), Feminisms and Internationalisms. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 62-80.
Recent Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Other Publications:
Review, Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television and Radio Comedy, by John Mundy and Glyn White Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Vol. 34 Issue 1, 2014, 128-129.
Review,Children of Fate: Childhood, Class and the State in Chile, 1850-1930, by Nara B. Milanich. American Historical Review, June 2011, 849-850.
Review Intimidad, divorcio y nueva moral en el Uruguay del Novecientos. By José Pedro Barrán. Hispanic American Historical Review. May 2010.
“República Oriental del Uruguay,” in World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties, 4th ed. Miami FL: Schlaeger Group, 2006.
Review A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral, by Licia Fiol-Matta. Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 12 No. 1 (2003): 137-139.
Review of Labors Appropriate to Their Sex, by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison. Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 33 No. 4 (2003): 680-681.
“Uruguay: Radio Panamericana,” in Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, Derek Jones ed. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
“República Oriental del Uruguay,” in World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties, 3rd ed. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
Selected Conference Papers and Participation:
“Five Minutes of Love” in Argentina: Peronist Romance in Nené Cascallar’s Radio Columns, 1948-1949.” Paper presented at the 127th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2013, andat The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum,” University of Bedfordshire, UK, July 9-12, 2013.
“Voices in Space: Radio and the Gendered Soundscape in the Río de la Plata, 1930s-1940s.” Paper presented at at the 2013 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington DC, May 29-June 1, 2013.
“Gender, Voice and Sound on Rioplatense Airwaves, 1930s-1940s.” Participant in Roundtable, “Latin America Listens: Sound, Archives and the Production of Knowledge” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, California, May 23-26, 2012.
“Getting the Joke: Niní Marshall and Comedy as History in Argentina, 1930s-1940s.” Paper presented at Latin American and Caribbean Graduate Student Workshop, Duke University, March 30, 2012.
“Airing Clean and Dirty Longing: Nené Cascallar and 1940s Argentine Radio.” Paper presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Boston, Massachusetts 17-20 November, 2011.
“Chaplin in Skirts”?: Niní Marshall and the Female Comic Voice in Argentina, 1937-1945.” Paper presented at the 2010 meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, November 5-7, 2010, and at the 125th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston Massachusetts, January, 6-9, 2011, and at Vanderbilt University, March, 2011.
“Challenging Vocal Heteronormativity: Radio and the (Trans)gendered Soundscape in 1930s Argentina.” Paper presented at Broadcasting in the 1930s: New Media in the Time of Crisis Symposium, July 6-9, 2010, Madison Wisconsin.
“Embodied Voices and the Gendered Soundscape: Argentine Radio, 1930s-1940.” Paper presented at Gender, Bodies, and Technology Conference, organized by Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech University. April 22-24, 2010, Roanoke, Virginia.
“Feminism and Populism on the Airwaves: Eva Duarte and Paulina Luisi.” Paper read at the 124th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, January 7-10, 2010.
“Corporeal Voices and Gender Ventriloquism on Rioplatense Radio, 1930s-1940s.” Paper presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, New Orleans, LA, April 16-18, 2009.
“Atlantic Feminism between the World Wars”. Paper presented at "Globalization, Diversity, and Peace in the Women's Movement between the World Wars. Restoring the Heritage of Rosa Manus, Co-Founder of the IIAV." Amsterdam, October 22-24, 2008.
Compensation Feminism?: Women, Gender, and the Law in Batllista Uruguay, 1910s-1930s. Paper presented at the 2008 meeting of the Conference on Latin American History, Washington DC, January 3-5, 2008
“Savage Dissonance: Women’s Radio Speech and Gendered Constructions of the Public Sphere.” Paper presented at “Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction” Conference, Hagley Library, Wilmington Delaware, November 29-30, 2007
“Buenas Vecinas?: Latin American Women and US Radio Propaganda During World War II”Paper presented at the 2007 meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta Georgia, January 2007.
“Radio Femenina: Feminists, Fascists, and Radio in 1930s Uruguay”. Paper presented at the XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan Puerto Rico, March 2006.
“La Onda Femenina: Women and the Politics of Radio in 1930s Uruguay”. Paper presented at the 13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont California, June 2005.
“Beneficent Cinema: State Formation, Elite Reproduction and Silent Film in Uruguay 1910s-1920s”. Paper presented Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, Santa Fe New Mexico, March 2004 and read at the Women and the Silent Screen Conference, Concordia University, Montreal Canada, May 2004.
“To Serve the Nation: Juvenile Mothers and State Formation in Uruguay, 1915-1930”. Paper presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Ill, January 2003.
“National Mothers and Public Servants: State Formation, Social Assistance, and
Female Citizenship in Uruguay, 1910-1930”. Paper presented at the 2002 Annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, St. Louis MO, October 2002
Awards and Honors:
National Awards and Honors:
National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007 Summer Stipend. Award to conduct research on “Women and Radio in Uruguay and Argentina, 1930-1950”.
Conference on Latin American History. 2006 Vanderwood Prize, Honorable Mention for “To Serve the Nation: Domestic Servants, Social Assistance, and State Formation in Uruguay, 1910-1930”. Published in Social Science History, Volume 29 No. 3 (Fall 2005).
Fulbright Scholar, Institute for International Education: Uruguay, March 1994-May1995.
Tinker Travel Grant for preliminary doctoral research; Summer 1993
James Scobie Memorial Award, Honorable Mention; May 1992
Selected College and University Awards and Honors:
Research on Women Grant, University of Louisville, College of Arts and Sciences, Summer 2011.
Nominee, President’s Multicultural Teaching Award, University of Louisville, Spring 2010.
Research on Women Grant, University of Louisville, College of Arts and Sciences, Summer-Fall 2007.
Lewis Fellowship, Program in Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Louisville, 2007
Research on Women Grant, University of Louisville, College of Arts and Sciences, Summer 2006.
Research Completion Grant, University of Louisville College of Arts and Sciences, 2002-2003.
Appleby Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA History Department; 1995-96
Armin Rappaport Prize (Outstanding History Student, University of California, San Diego); 1989
Teaching:
Courses Taught (University of Louisville, 2001-Present):
Graduate/advanced undergraduate courses:
Graduate Research Methods
History of Radio
Mass Media, Politics and Culture in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Revolution and Reform in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Race, Class, and Identity in Latin America
History of Mexico
Undergraduate courses:
Colonial Latin America
Latin America, 1820-Present
Women and Gender in Latin America (cross-list with Women’s and Gender Studies)
Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
Introduction to Latin American Studies
History of Civilizations II: World History 1500-Present
History of Civilizations II (Honors): World History 1500-Present
Selected Community and Professional Service:
Committee Chair, 2013 MacLeod Book Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern Historical Association.
National Endowment for the Humanities. Reviewer for 2009 Summer Stipends (Fall 2008).
“Radio Femenina : Women, Radio and World War II in Uruguay.” Interview on “Talking History” radio program. Recorded May 11, 2008. Broadcast May 22, 2008.
Available at:
Conference of Latin American History (CLAH), American Historical Association; 2006 Program Committee; 2008 Lewis Hanke Award Committee
Pacifica Radio: Local reporting KPFK Radio, Los Angeles, January 1990- January 1991; International reporting for Pacifica Radio News, Washington DC, from Montevideo Uruguay, August-November 1994.
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