Tulane University

Contact Info
ggarcia4@tulane.edu

Department Affiliation
History

• B.A., Pitzer College, Political Studies and Literature, 1997
• M.A., California State University, Latin American Studies, 2001
• Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, HIstory, 2006

• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2016-
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2009-2015
• Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida, 2006-2008
• Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill, 2001-2006

Research & Teaching Specializations: 19th and 20th century Latin America, Urban Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Caribbean, Cuba

• Associate Editor, Hispanic American Historical Review, (HAHR), 2017
• James R Scobie Memorial Award Committee, Conference on latin American History (CLAH), American Historical Association (AHA), 2015 Manuscript Reviewer, Academic Presses and Journals, 2012-2016

• John Carter Brown Library Fellowship, Short-Term, Brown University, 2016
• Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2015
• Warwick Transatlantic Fellowship, University of Warwick, UK, 2013-2014
• Honorable Mention, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2013
• Finalist, Award to Louisiana Scholars and Artists (ATLAS), Board of Regents, 2013
• Young Glick Fellow, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2013
• Lurcy Research Grant, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2013
• Latin American Studies Center Library Research Grant, University of Florida, 2006
• Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 2005
• Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, 2005
• Mowry Summer Research Grant, UNC Chapel Hill, 2003
• Waddell Memorial Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill, 2001

• Spanish
• French

• Cuba
• Spain
• Mexico

• 2016. Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• 2016. Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance. With Lisa B.Y. Calvente. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
• 2015. “‘La ciudad antigua y la ciudad nueva:’ Topographies of Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Havana.” Revista Quiroga, Revisa de patrimonio Iberoamericano, 7: 22-30.
• 2014. “The City Speaks: Dis/Articulating Revolutionary Havana, Cuba, and Global Belonging.” Cultural Studies 28(3): 438-462.
• 2011. “Urban Guajiros: Colonial Reconcentración, Rural Displacement, and Criminalization in Western Cuba, 1895-1902.” Journal of Latin American Studies 43, 2, 209-235.
• 2011. “Nuestra patria La Habana: Reading the 1762 British Occupation of the City.” Nuevo Mundo/Mundos Nuevos, “Debates.” Online Journal, URL
• 2005. “Aurora Castillo.” In Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Completing the Twentieth Century. Susan Ware, ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 5: 107-108.
• 2005. “Carnival.” In Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States. Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum, eds. Danbury, CT: Grolier, Inc.
• 2005. “Mexican American Unity Council.” In Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States. Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum, eds. Danbury, CT: Grolier, Inc.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: HISL1710: Introduction to Latin American History, HISL-2910-01: Cuba, Revolution and Cold War

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 3

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