History Department Faculty

Mar铆a de los 脕ngeles Picone

Assistant Professor

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Mar铆a de los 脕ngeles Picone

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall S309

Telephone: 617-552-1196

Email: angeles.picone@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Emory University

Research Interests

Nation-making, border regions, spatial history, and the environment.

Curriculum Vitae

Department

History

Biography

I am a historian of Modern Latin America specializing in the southern cone. I am interested in the intersection of nature and nation-making in border regions. Particularly, I am drawn to questions on how people experienced a shared sense of community through their spatial practices.

My forthcoming book,聽Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina, examines how explorers, migrants, authorities, and visitors constructed their versions of 鈥楥hile鈥� and 鈥楢rgentina鈥� in the Northern Patagonian Andes. I argue that between the 1890s and 1940s, these groups created shared versions of nationhood through regional, often cross-border, interpretations and transformations of the natural environment.聽This study shows how different actors 鈥� namely explorers, settlers, authorities, visitors, and bandits 鈥� sought to make Patagonia their own by transforming a collection of geographical sites into a landscape that evoked a shared past and a common future.

At Boston College, I teach courses on Modern Latin America, Spatial History, Environmental History, Sports History, and Borderlands. My teaching frequently includes聽聽and digital projects, from board games to websites.

Beginning in the Fall 2024, I will be co-director of the聽Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. I am also affiliated faculty in the聽Environmental Studies Program聽and the聽CloughCenter for the Study of Constitutional Democracy听(2023-2025).

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