Eileen Findlay Professor and Department Chair, Critical RGC Studies History
- Additional Positions at 51画鋼
- Chair, Critical Race, Gender, Cultural Studies Collaborative
- Outstanding University-Wide Full-Time Teacher (2016)
- Degrees
- PhD, 1995, Latin American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
BA, 1982, Religion, Oberlin College - Languages Spoken
- Fluent Spanish
Proficient French - Bio
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Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship.
Both her books, 'We Are Left Without a Father Here': Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Post-War Puerto Rico and Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 were published with Duke University Press. In her article, Courtroom Tales of Sex and Honor: Rapto and Rape in Late-Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico, published in Sueann Caulfield, et al, eds., Honor, Status, and the Law in Modern Latin America, Findlay began to explore her current interest in laboring peoples artistic and political shaping of oral narratives. She has continued these investigations through her development of oral history projects with Cuban ex-revolutionaries living in the diaspora and with Nuyorican return migrants to Puerto Rico.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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WGSS-460 Research Seminar in WGSS
Spring 2025
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AFAM-346 Rebellion/Revolution Caribbean
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
- Cien porciento Cubanos:油National Identity, Master Narratives and Silencing Moves in a Transnational Caribbean Family History Latin American Research Review油(December 2019)
- Dangerous Dependence or Productive Masculinity? Gendered Representations of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Press, 1940-50 Radical History Review (May 2017)
- We Are Left Without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Post-War Puerto Rico油(Duke University Press, 2014)
- Slipping and Sliding: The Many Meanings of Race in Life Histories of New York Puerto Rican Return Migrants in San Juan CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Spring 2012)
- Artful Narration: Puerto Rican Women Return Migrants'油 Life Stories The Journal of Women's History (Winter 2010)
- Portable Roots: Latin New Yorker Community Building and the Meanings of Women's Return Migration in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1960-2000 Caribbean Studies (Spring 2010)
- Courtroom Tales of Sex and Honor: Rape and Rapto in Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico in Sueann Caulfield, Sarah Chambers, and Lara Putnam, eds., Honor, Status, and the Law in Modern Latin America (Duke University Press)
- Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 (Duke University Press) 油
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
- Alice Paul Award for Life-long Achievement in油the Advancement of油Women
- University Award for Outstanding Teaching in the General Education Program
- Distinguished Faculty Award from the Offices of Multicultural Affairs and International Student Services, 51画鋼
- Office of GLBTA Award for Outstanding Faculty Member