Associate Professor
Phone: (239) 590-7368
E-Mail: nfoote@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1 - Office 36

Associate Professor, Latin American History
nfoote@fgcu.edu

Ph.D., History, University College London, 2005
M.A., Area Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2000
B.A., History, University College London, 1999

Research and Teaching Interests

Latin America and the Caribbean; race, racism and racial theory; women and gender; nationalism and national identity; migration and Diaspora. 

Courses Ooffered

• HIS  3064 Theories and Methods in History
• HIS  3930 Special Topics: Women and Gender in Latin America
• LAH 3100 Colonial Latin America
• LAH 3200 Modern Latin America
• LAH 3470  Caribbean History
• LAH 3724 Race in Latin America
• LAH 3732 Popular Culture in Latin America
• LAH 6306 Modern Latin America
• LAH 6915 Research in Latin American History
• LAH 6939 Seminar in Latin American History
• WOH 1030 World Civilization 1815 to the Present
• WOH 3221 Women in World History
• WOH 6915 Research in World History
• WOH 6939 Seminar in World History

Books

• Editor, The Caribbean History Reader and Sourcebook (Routledge 2011).
• Co-editor with Rene Harder Horst, Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation and Community, 1850-1950 (University Press of Florida, 2010).

Articles

• "'We Must Civilize Our Cayapa Indians': Father Antonio Metalli's Assessment of Race and Gender in Coastal Ecuador," in Erin O'Connor and Leo Garofalo, eds., Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race and Nation (New York: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2010), pp. 131-138. 
• "Luchando por la inclusión: la participación de la gente afro-esmeraldeña en la revolución de Concha," Europa & America Latina, Vol. 5 (2010), pp. 101-120.
• “Reinventing the Inca Past: The Kingdom of Quito, Atahualpa and the Creation of Ecuadorian National Identity,” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Vol. 5, no. 2 (July 2010), pp. 109-130. 
• "Manuela Saenz and the Independence of South America,” World History Connected, Vol. 7, no. 1 (2010)
•  "Mapping the Foundations of a Modern Social Movement," A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, Vol. 6, no. 3 (Spring 2009), pp. 337-347.
• “New Perspectives on Indigenous Peasantries in Ecuador,” Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 35, no. 1 (2008), pp. 133-147.
• “State, Race, and Nation in Early Twentieth Century Ecuador," Nations and Nationalism, Special Edition on Latin America, Vol. 12, no. 2 (April 2006), pp. 261-278.
• “Rethinking Race, Gender and Citizenship: Black West Indian Women on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica, c.1920-1940,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 23, no. 2 (April 2004), pp. 198-212.
• Book reviews in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Canadian Journal of History, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Teachers College Record
• Encyclopedia entries in The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences and Culture (California: ABC-Clio Inc/African New World Studies, 2008).

Conference Presentations

• “International Discourses of Domesticity in Ecuador: Race, Gender and the Home in Missionary Work and Modernization Projects, 1900-1960,” paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 2011.
• “West Indian Migration and National Identity Formation in Ecuador and Costa Rica,” paper presented at the Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Bristol, UK, April 2010
• “Claiming Atahualpa: The Nationalization of the Inca Past in Postcolonial Ecuador,” paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, San Diego, January 2010.        
• "Creating the 'Model Indian': Representations of Amazonian and Highland Indians in Ecuadorian Nationalist Discourse, 1900-1950," paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, New York, January 2009.
• "Race, Intellectuals, and Indigenous Heritage in Ecuador 1830-1960," paper presented at the Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, October 2008.
• "Macheteros and Monteneros: Black and Indigenous Experiences of Military Struggle in Liberal Ecuador," paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, Washington, January 2008.
• "Indigenistas, Afro-Centrics and Scientists: Intellectuals, the State and the Racialisation of the Ecuadorian Nation 1925-1950," paper presented at the annual conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
• "A Moralising Endeavour?: Education and Nation-Building in Liberal Ecuador," paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007.