Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
· _Graduate Chair_University of Pennsylvania · History
Active 1996–2020
About
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear is an Associate Professor of History and Chair of Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of History. She is also an undergraduate advisor for Latin American & Latinx Studies. Her research focuses on modern Latin America, with particular emphasis on economic and social history, gender studies, labor history, and the history of race in the Americas. She is the author of 'Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960,' which won the Allan Sharlin Prize of the Social Science History Association and the Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American History, as well as 'The Colombia Reader.' Her current research concentrates on platinum mining in the Colombian Chocó. She holds a Ph.D. from Duke University, earned in 1994, and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary. She teaches courses including Coca and Cocaine: Historical Approaches, Feminism in the Americas, Oral History, and Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Studies.
Awards & honors
- Allan Sharlin Prize of the Social Science History Associatio…
- Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American His…
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