Margaret Power
- Professor Emeritus
Margaret Power is a professor of history who focuses on Latin America, women, and gender. Her earlier work explored why a large number of Chilean women opposed the socialist government of Salvador Allende (1970-73) and supported the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). She also explored various expressions of the global and transnational Right. She recently co-authored a book on Norvelt, a New Deal community in southwest Pennsylvania named for Eleanor Roosevelt. She is currently writing a book titled Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party vs. U.S. Colonialism.
Seeking Ph.D. students with interests in:
Learning about and doing historical research
Utilizing digital humanities methods in research and producing online materials to publicize and communicate their research
Speaking Spanish
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at 电车无码
M.A., San Francisco State
B.A., Georgetown University
Research Interests
Latin America (Chile and Puerto Rico)
Women
Gender
Human Rights
The Right
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
Puerto Rican Studies Association
Congress on Latin American History
Awards
Julia Beveridge Award
Dean's Award for Teaching, May 2014
College of Arts and Sciences Award for Teaching, December 2013
January 2010 Congress on Latin American History (CLAH) Honorable Mention for "The Engendering of Anti-Communism and Fear in Chile's 1964 Presidential Election," Diplomatic History.
Publications
Books
Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression. Co-written with Timothy Kelly and Michael Cary. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2016.
New Perspectives on the Transnational Right. Co-edited with Martin Durham. New York: Palgrave/McMillan, 2010.
La mujer de derecha: El Poder Femenino y la lucha contra Allende, 1964-1973, Santiago: DIBAM (the National Library of Chile), 2008.
Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973. Penn State University Press, 2002.
Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists around the World, co-edited with Paola Bacchetta. Routledge Press, 2002.
Journal
Co-editor, 鈥淧uerto Rico: A Colony in a Post-Colonial World,鈥 Radical History Review No. 128, May 2017.
Co-editor, 鈥淣orth American Solidarity with Latin America,鈥 Latin American Perspectives, November 2009.
Articles and Chapters
鈥淒iscursos anticomunistas y antisocialistas de mujeres conservadoras en Brasil y Chile en las d茅cadas de 1960 y 1970,鈥 El pensamiento conservador y derechista en Am茅rica Latina, Espa帽a y Portugal, siglos XIX y XX, Fabio Kolar, Ulrich M眉cke, eds., Madrid: Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2019.
鈥淭rump, the Republican Party, and Westmoreland County,鈥 Political Research Associates, August 4, 2018.
鈥淲omen, Gender, and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party,鈥 in Gendering Nationalism. Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality, eds. Jon Mulholland, Nicola Montagna, Erin Sanders-McDonagh, London, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
鈥淩ise of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, 1922-1954,鈥 50 Events that Shaped Latino History. An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic, vol. 1, Lilia Fern谩ndez, ed., Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2018, pp. 295-312.
鈥淓ditors鈥 Introduction鈥; "If people had not been willing to give their lives for the patria or there had not been the political prisoners, then we would be nothing鈥'; 鈥淔rom an early age, I had this idea about Puerto Ricanness: Interview with Jos茅 E. L贸pez". Radical History Review. No. 128, May 2017.
鈥淧uerto Rico Nationalism in 电车无码,鈥 Centro Journal vol. XXVIII, No 11, Fall 2016.
鈥淎蹿迟别谤飞辞谤诲,鈥 Pensar las derechas en Am茅rica Latina en el siglo XX, Paris, France: Nuevos Mundos/Mundo Nuevo, January 2016;
鈥淧uerto Rico: The United States鈥 Unacknowledged Colony in the Caribbean,鈥 In Achankeng Fonkem (Ed.). Nationalism and Intra-State Conflicts in the Postcolonial World (pp. ?-?). Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015
鈥淲ho but a Woman? The Transnational Diffusion of Anti-Communism among Conservative Women in Brazil, Chile and the United States during the Cold War,鈥 Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 47, Issue 01, February 2015, pp. 93 鈥 119.
With Alison Bruey, Jessica Stites Mor, and Molly Todd, 鈥淎uthors鈥 Response to comments on Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America,鈥 H-Diplo, Vol. xv, No. 32 2014, .
"Transnational Connections among Right-Wing Women: Brazil, Chile, and the United States," Varia Historia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, vol. 30, no 52, p. 67-83, Jan/Apr 2014.
鈥淗ow Right-Wing Women Enabled Military Dictatorships: Chile, 1973,鈥 in Women and Gender in Modern Latin America. Historical Sources and Interpretations, ed. Pamela S. Murray, New York: Routledge, 2014.
鈥淲omen Lead the Opposition to Allende: Interview with Carmen Saenz,鈥 in The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics, eds. Elizabeth Quay Hutchinson, Thomas Miller Klubock, Nana R. Milanich, and Peter Winn, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014.
鈥淣ationalism in a Colonized Nation: The Nationalist Party and Puerto Rico,鈥 Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueolog铆a Desde el Caribe Colombiano, Vol. 10, No. 20, May-August 2013.
鈥淔rom Freedom Fighters to Patriots: The Successful Campaign to Release the FALN Political Prisoners, 1980-1999,鈥 Centro Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 2013.
鈥淭he Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Transnational Solidarity: Latin American Anti-colonialism vs. the United States during the Cold War in Latin America,鈥 in Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America, ed. Jessica Stites Mor, University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
鈥淧uerto Rican Women Nationalists vs. U.S. Colonialism: An exploration of their conditions and struggles in jail and in court,鈥 电车无码 Kent College of Law Review, 2012.
鈥淏razil, Chile, and the United States: Transnational Connections among Right-Wing Women,鈥 in Women of the Right: Comparisons and Exchanges across National Borders, Eds. Kathleen Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch, University Park: Penn State University Press, 2012.
鈥淭he First National Congress of Scientists in Chile: The Popular Unity Government, Technology, Science, and Development,鈥 SudHistoria Vol 2, No. 2, January 鈥 June 2011.
鈥淟ast but Not Least: The Fight to Release Oscar L贸pez Rivera,鈥 NACLA Report on the Americas Vol. 44, No. 1, January/February 2011.
鈥淭he U.S. Movement in Solidarity with Chile in the 1970s,鈥 Latin American Perspectives, November 2009.
鈥淭he Engendering of Anti-Communism and Fear in Chile鈥檚 1964 Presidential Election,鈥 Diplomatic History, November 2008.