2127 Talliaferro
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4286
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: karosemb@umd.edu

          Karin Rosemblatt studies the relation between gender, racial/ethnic, and class identities and governance and social policy. She is the author of Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), which won the Berkshire Prize for the best first book by a woman historian. The book examined how feminists, socialists, labor activists, social workers, physicians, and political leaders converged around a shared gender ideology and how that ideology shaped labor, health, and welfare policies. With Nancy Appelbaum and Anne MacPherson she edited the anthology Race and Nation in Modern Latin America (University of North Carolina Press, 2003). She is currently at work on a book that considers how scholarship on race and poverty have shaped discourses of social mobility, cultural difference, and national development in Mexico and the United States from 1920 to 1970. This transnational study examines the biographies and writings of influential sociologists and anthropologists to understand when and how ideas about race change as they move across national borders

           Rosemblatt has held fellowships from Fulbright and the National Endowment for Humanities and been a fellow at New York University and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She served as Director of Latin American Studies Syracuse University, where she taught from 1995 to 2008. Rosemblatt received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996.

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