Assistant Professor / History Graduate Program Coordinator
Phone: (239)590-7368
E-Mail: nfoote@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1 - Office 36

Assistant Professor, Latin American History
nfoote@fgcu.edu

Ph.D., History, University College London, 2004
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 Offered:

HIS  3064  Intro to Historical Studies
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

Recent and upcoming publications:

Editor, The Caribbean History Reader and Sourcebook, under contract with Routledge.

Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation and Community, 1850-1950. Edited collection with Rene Harder Horst, under contract with University Press of Florida.

"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.

"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.

"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.

Recent major conference papers:

"Claiming Atahualpa: The Nationalization of the Inca Past in Postcolonial Ecuador." To be 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.

Service to the profession:

Member, editorial board, Journal of International Women's Studies

Chair, Gran Colombia Studies Committee, American Historical Association