Jeane DeLaney
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. Stanford, 1990
Latin America
x3738
delaney@stolaf.edu
Jeane DeLaney earned her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies in International
Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her
first contact with Latin America occurred when a favorite professor
encouraged her to "get some Third World experience"
before graduating. Since UNC had no suitable international programs,
she dutifully left the university and traveled to Colombia where
she studied Spanish, political science and economics, and taught English
to support herself. After a year, she returned to the UNC to finish
her degree. Upon graduation, she worked for the Population Institute
in Washington, D.C., then returned to Colombia on a Fulbright Scholarship
to continue her studies in international development at the Universidad
de Los Andes in Bogota and to conduct research on agricultural cooperatives.
Upon her return to the U.S., DeLaney entered a Masters program
in Latin American Studies at Stanford University, then continued on
for a Ph.D. in Latin American History. As a doctoral student, she specialized
in Latin American intellectual history with a special focus on Argentina.
Her most recent publications include “Imagining ‘el ser
nacional’ Cultural Nationalism and Romantic Concepts of National
Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina," 1810-1930,"
(Journal of Latin American Studies) and "Imagining ‘la raza
argentina,’” which appeared in a Nationalism in
the New World (U.
of Georgia Press). She is currently completing a book on changing
conceptions of national identity and nationhood in Argentina from independence
to 1945. Her courses include: History 242 (Modern Latin
America), History 242 (Environmental History of Latin America),
History 243 (Twentieth-Century Cuba), History 125 (The Maya), and Hispanic
Studies 333.
