Professor Jo Crow
B.A.(Leeds), M.A.(Lond.), PhD(Lond)
Current positions
Professor of Latin American Studies
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Contact
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Research interests
Previously, Professor Crow’s research focused on indigenous Mapuche cultural and political activism, and nationalism and nation-building in modern Chile. More recently, she has been investigating the cross-border circulation of ideas about race and indigenous cultures in twentieth century Latin America, focusing specifically on Chilean-Peruvian intellectual networks.
Teaching'Indigenous Histories in Modern Latin America' (Y4); 'A People's History: Twentieth-Century Latin America' (Y2); ‘Novels, Poetry and Politics in Twentieth-Century Latin America’ (Y2); 'The Making of the Hispanic World, 1492 to the present' (Y1); 'Critical Concepts in the Study of the Hispanic World' (Y1)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Mapping Intercultural Connections and Conversations of the Past
Principal Investigator
Description
Funded by UoB's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, this project aims to create an educational toolkit, to make visible and accessible the complex social worlds of three prominent Mapuche political activists…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/06/2019 to 31/12/2020
Race, Citizenship and Education in Peru: Connecting the Past and the Present
Principal Investigator
Description
I have received £1800 from the Global Challenges Ad-Hoc support scheme to cover the costs of a two-week visit to Peru, which seeks to deepen existing connections with the Pontifical…Managing organisational unit
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesDates
18/03/2019 to 02/04/2019
Addressing Culture and Inequality in Latin America
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
ACILA will build research partnerships investigating the role of culture in addressing development challenges around inequality.Managing organisational unit
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesDates
01/03/2018 to 31/07/2018
Mapping Intercultural Connections and Conversations of the Past (in Order to Encourage More Connections and Conversations in the Present)
Principal Investigator
Description
In collaboration with Mapuche intercultural educators in Chile and an expert in digital story-telling, 'Mapping Intercultural Connections' explores innovative and exciting ways of representing the social networks of most prominent…Dates
01/03/2017 to 31/07/2017
Interconnected Histories
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Modern LanguagesDates
02/03/2015 to 02/03/2016
Thesis supervisions
Financing a Revolution
Supervisors
'Obras que unen Chilenos'
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
31/01/2024Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World
Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World
Contesting representations of indigeneity at the First Inter-American Indigenista Congress, 1940
Placing Internationalism
Itinerant Ideas
Itinerant Ideas
Indigenous Politics and Education in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century Chile
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
A Complicated Game of Friendship
A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America
