Assistant Professor
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., History, 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 3732 Popular Culture in Latin America
WOH 1030 World Civilization 1815 to the Present
WOH 3221 Women in World History

Recent and upcoming publications and major conference papers:

• “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.
• War, Protest and Identity: Military Struggle and the Formation of Race, Community and Nation in Latin America during the Liberal Period. Edited collection with Rene Harder Horst, under contract with University of Florida Press.
• “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.
• "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.

Service to the profession:

• Member, editorial board, Journal of International Women's Studies
• Chair, Gran Colombia Studies Committee, American Historical Association