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Teresa A. Meade (born 1948) is an American historian. A specialist in Latin American history, she was Professor of History and Culture at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Life

Teresa Ann Meade was born in Iowa in 1948. She graduated with a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972. She gained her PhD from Rutgers University in 1984, with a thesis on community protest in Rio de Janeiro between 1890 and 1917.

Meade taught at Union College for many years. In 2000-2001 she was a Fulbright Lecturer in Tokyo. She became Professor of History and Culture, remaining at Union College until her retirement in 2020.

She is a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective, and has been president of the board of trustees of the Journal of Women's History.

Works

  • (ed. with Mark Walker) Science, Medicine and Cultural Imperialism. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
  • "Civilizing" Rio : reform and resistance in a Brazilian city, 1889-1930. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0271028705.
  • (ed. with Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks) A companion to global gender history. Blackwell, 2004. ISBN 0-631-22393-2 Second ed., 2020.
  • A brief history of Brazil. 2004. ISBN 9780816077885
  • A history of Latin America: 1800 to the Present. Chichester: Wiley, 2010. 2nd ed., 2016. 3rd ed, 2022, ISBN 9781119719168.
  • We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014. Springer Nature, 2021. ISBN 978-3030845278.

References

  1. "Meade, Teresa A., 1948-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  2. "History Newsletter" (PDF). University of Wisconsin. p. 13. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  3. Meade, Teresa Ann (1984). Community Protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, During the First Republic: 1890-1917 (PhD). Rutgers University.
  4. "Professor Teresa Meade Presents at International Women's Conference in Uganda". November 1, 2002. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  5. "Editorial Board". Radical History Review. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  6. "Call for proposals to edit the Journal of Women's History". Memory Studies Association. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
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