Marian Schlotterbeck
I am a second-year student in Latin American history, specializing in 20th century Chile. My primary interests center on themes of memory, violence, popular culture, and state-formation in Modern Latin America; specific interests include the USIS and other U.S. cultural diplomacy efforts in Chile in the 1950s, and the relationship between U.S. Cold War policy and Leftist politics and movements for social change in Latin America. I look forward to continuing research in Chile on competing forms of labor organizing and the rise of popular mobilizations in Concepción province from 1960 to 1973. At Yale, I work with Gil Joseph, Lillian Guerra, Seth Fein, and Stuart Schwartz.
Born and raised in Indiana, after graduating from Oberlin College in 2005 with majors in history and Latin American studies, I spent 2006 as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the Universidad de Concepción (Chile), where I studied with Alejandra Brito Peña. Before and after Chile I worked with Peter Kornbluh on the Chile & Cuba Documentation Projects at the National Security Archive in Washington DC. In 2007, I published "Gender, Order, and Femicide: Reading the Popular Culture of Murder in Ciudad Juárez," co-authored with my undergraduate mentor, Steven Volk, in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. My work has also appeared in The Nation.
Please feel free to contact me with questions about the program.
