Julyana G. Peard

Education

1981-90 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
Ph. D. Latin American history

1979-81 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
M.A. Latin American history

1968-71 DURHAM UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND
B.A., Joint Hons., Politics & Sociology

Papers

1996 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Queen's College, Oxford
"Medicine and Politics in the Torrid Zone: The Pre-Cruz Era in Brazilian Medicine, 1860-1890"

1995 XIX LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
"Aspects of Disease, Health, and Society in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, 1840-1940," Chair and Discussant

1992 COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
Francis C. Wood Institute for History of Medicine
"Tropical Medicine, Race, and Nation: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Brazil"

1991 MADRID QUINCENTENNIAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY
"The Escola Tropicalista of Brazil in National Context" Paper given on a panel entitled: "The New Social History of Medicine in Latin America"

1991 XVI LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
"Tropical medicine, society and race: the case of the Escola Tropicalista Bahiana"

1990 BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE OF WOMEN HISTORIANS
"Race, gender and 'tropicalism:' An historical re-interpretation of a medical concept"

Publications

1995 "Tropical medicine in national context: the case of Brazil," David Arnold, ed., "Warm Climates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500-1900". Amsterdam: Wellcome Institute, History of Medicine Series, 1995.

1995 "Medicine in Latin America," "The Escola Tropicalista Bahiana" in Barbara Tenenbaum, ed., Scribner's Encyclopedia of Latin American History. (Forthcoming)

1994 "Medicina Tropical en el Brasil del siglo XIX: el caso de la Escuela Tropicalista de Bahia, 1860-1890." ed. Marcos Cueto, Medicina y Sociedad en America Latina Lima, Peru: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Forthcoming

1992 "Tropical Medicine, Society and Race: The Case of the Escola Tropicalista Bahiana, Brazil, 1860-89" A. Lafuente, A. Elena, and M.L. Ortega, eds., Mundializacion de la ciencia y la cultura nacional. Madrid: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Ediciones Dos Calles, 1992.

Academic Honors

1996 American Council of Learned Societies
Stipend

1995 National Endowment of the Humanities
Summer Stipend

1992 Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
Stipend.

1992 National Endowment of the Humanities
Travel grant for research at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda.

1992 San Francisco State University
Research and Creative Activity Program
Summer Stipend for Travel

1991 History of Science Society.
Fellowship

History Teaching

1991-SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Assistant-Professor in Latin American history

1989-91 KEAN COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY
Assistant-Professor in Latin American history

1986-88 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
Adjunct-Professor in Latin American history

Teaching Interests

Colonial Latin America
Modern Latin America
Tropical medicine, race and nationalism
Women's History in Latin America