History Department Faculty

María de los Ángeles Picone

Assistant Professor

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María de los Ángeles 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.

Personal Website Curriculum Vitae

Department

History

Biography

I am 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 current book project, Landscaping Patagonia: A Spatial and Environmental History of Nation-Making in the Chilean-Argentine Borderlands, examines how explorers, migrants, authorities, and visitors constructed their versions of ‘Chile’ and ‘Argentina’ 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. This study shows how different actors – namely explorers, settlers, authorities, visitors, and bandits – 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, and Borderlands. Additionally, I am affiliated to the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. My teaching frequently includes unessay assignments and digital projects, from board games to websites.

For the Fall 2022, I am also Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

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