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About Elena McGrath
Elena McGrath is an Assistant Professor of History at Union College
NBN Episodes hosted by Elena:
April 5, 2023
The Rural State
On the eve of the twentieth century, Peru seemed poised for prosperity and development. Both foreign capitalists and local elites imagined that the hi…
November 2, 2022
Water for All
Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivians d…
August 26, 2022
Nationalizing Nature
In Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Cambridge UP, 2021), Frederico Freitas uncovers the crucial r…
August 26, 2021
No Globalization Without Representation
Paul Adler's No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) is a history of the hardworking…
August 9, 2021
Fields of Revolution
Fields of Revolution: Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964, published in 2021 by the University of Pittsburgh Press is a gr…
August 2, 2021
La Paz's Colonial Specters
La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of …
April 23, 2021
Uncertain Citizenship
Megan Ryburn’s Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile (University of California Press, 2018) is a multi-sited ethnogr…
November 9, 2020
Our Time is Now
Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is an ambitious exploration of modernity, history, an…
July 23, 2020
Conscript Nation
Elizabeth Shesko’s Conscript Nation: Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) is an intimate and rich …
June 23, 2020
An Open Secret
Natalie Kimball is the author of An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia, out this year from Rutgers Universi…
June 2, 2020
Mexico in the Time of Cholera
Donald F. Stevens offers us a portrait of early republican life in his new book, Mexico in the Time of Cholera, published in 2019 by the University of…
May 28, 2020
Landscape of Migration
Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present (UNC Press, 2020), traces the entwined h…
April 23, 2020
Itineraries of Expertise
Emerging out of a 2016 conference, Andra Chastain and Timothy Lorek have brought together Environmental History, Latin American Studies, and Science a…
April 22, 2020
Before the Flood
Jacob Blanc’s Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019) tells the story of the the Itaipu dam,…
July 23, 2019
Domesticating Democracy
Susan Ellison’s Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2018) explores the world of foreign-fu…
July 8, 2019
Now Peru is Mine
Now Peru is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist (Duke University Press, 2016) tells the remarkable story of a campesino and indigenous po…
May 30, 2019
The Polyphonic Machine
What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence? This is the questi…