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Kristin Ruggiero, Professor

Kristin Ruggiero

Office: Holton 391; Pearse Hall 173
Phone: (414) 229-4457; (414) 229-4401
E-mail: ruggiero@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vita: PDF 22K

Degree:
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1979

Current Research Interests:
Medicine and public health in Latin America
Law and criminology in Latin America

Current Teaching Interests:
Social movements in Latin America
Globalization
Human rights and peace accords
Gender issues

Other Relevant Activities:
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Recent Publications:
Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004)

The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory, editor (Sussex Academic Press, fc 2005)

"Houses of Deposit and the Exclusion of Women in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina" in Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion, eds., Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford (London: Routledge, 2003)

"Sexual Aberration, Degeneration and Psychiatry in Late Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires" in Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State and Society in Argentina, 1880-1970, ed., Mariano Plotkin (Albuquerque: New Mexico University Press, 2002)

"The Devil and Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires," The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, 59(2) (October 2002): 221-33

"Passion, Perversity and the Pace of Justice in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina" in Crime and Punishment in Latin America, eds., Carlos Aguirre, Gilbert Joseph, and Ricardo Salvatore (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001)

"Fingerprinting and the Argentine Plan for Universal Identification in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" in Documenting Individual Identity. The Development of State Practices in the Modern World, eds., Jane Caplan and John Torpey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)

"Not Guilty: Abortion and Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Argentina" in Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America, eds., Carlos Aguirre and Robert Buffington (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2000)



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