Bridget M. Chesterton
Bridget M. Chesterton
Assistant Professor
(716) 878-5412
Campus Address: Classroom Building C205
chestebm@buffalostate.edu
Ph.D., SUNY, Stony Brook
Latin American History, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay, Food and Commodities History, Borderland and Frontier History
Publications
Book
The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay 1904-1935. University of New Mexico Press (September 2013).
Articles
“Antecedentes históricos sobre el nacionalismo paraguayo y el problema del agua a comienzos del siglo XX,” Book on the Terceras Jornadas de Historia Paraguay. Asunción: Tiempo de Historia (Forthcoming).
“Composing Gender and Class: Paraguayan Letter Writers during the Chaco War, 1932-1935.” Journal of Women’s History (Forthcoming)
“Making it Legitimate: Misappropriation of the Paraguayan Past During and After the June 2012 Golpe Parlamentario.” Tempo Exterior (Forthcoming, June 2013).
Co-Authored with Carlos Gomez Florentín. “El centenario en la construcción del Paraguay moderno.” Chapter in Reto del Futuro Asunción, 2012.
“Tensiones y ansiedades en las cartas de madrina de guerra.” Chapter in Actas de las II Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del Paraguay, Thomas Whigham, Barbara Potthast, Luc Capdevila, and Juan Manuel Casal, eds. Asunción, Paraguay: Tiempo de Historia, 2012.
“El nacionalismo científico paraguayo en la frontera del Chaco, 1927-1934.” Chapter in Paraguay: El nacionalismo y la guerra. Juan Manuel Casal and Thomas L. Whigham, eds., Asunción, Paraguay: Servilibro, 2009.
“Chickens Need Hot Ovens: Doña Petrona and the Making of the Argentine Middle Class.” Latin Americanist. Spring 2008.
Book Reviews
Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942, by John Mckieran-Gonzalez. Canadian Journal of History (Forthcoming).
The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics, by Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson. A contracorriente (Forthcoming)
Dignifying Argentina: Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption, by Eduardo Elena. A contracorriente (Winter 2013).
El fin de la colonia: Paraguay 1810-1811, by Jerry W. Cooney. The Americas (April 2011)
The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay, by René D. Harder Horst. Hispanic American Historical Review (February 2010)
The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930, by Rebecca Earle. Canadian Journal of History (Spring/Summer 2009)
Francisco Solano López and the Ruination of Paraguay: Honor and Egocentrism, by James Schofield Saeger. The Americas (October 2008).
Future Project
Book: The Generation of Itaipú: Stroessner and Urbanization in Asunción, 1973-1989
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate
History and Culture of Argentina
History of Paraguay
Food and Global History
Methods of Research and Writing
History of the Caribbean
Modern Latin American History
Colonial Latin American History
Global History since 1500
Graduate
Latin America in the Twentieth Century
Food and Global History
Frontier and Borderlands in North and South America
The Atlantic World
