Teresa A. Meade (born 1948) is an American historian. A specialist in Latin American history, she was Professor of History and Culture at

Union College Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...

Schenectady, New York Schenectady () is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-largest city by population. The city is in eastern New Y ...

Life

Teresa Ann Meade was born in

Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...

in 1948. She graduated with a B.A. in history from the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

in 1972. She gained her PhD from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

in 1984, with a thesis on community protest in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

between 1890 and 1917. Meade taught at Union College for many years. In 2000-2001 she was a

Fulbright Lecturer The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

. She became Professor of History and Culture, remaining at Union College until her retirement. She is a member of the ''

Radical History Review ''Radical History Review'' is a scholarly journal published by Duke University Press. The journal describes its position as "at the point where rigorous historical scholarship and active political engagement converge".

'' editorial collective, and has been president of the board of trustees of the '' Journal of Women's History''.

Works

* (ed. with Mark Walker) ''Science, Medicine and Cultural Imperialism''. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991. * ''"Civilizing" Rio : reform and resistance in a Brazilian city, 1889-1930''. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. * (ed. with

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is an American historian and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Department of History. She describes herself as wearing "... two hats, one as a historian of early modern Europe and t ...

) ''A companion to global gender history''. Blackwell, 2004. Second ed., 2020. * ''A brief history of Brazil''. 2004. * ''A history of Latin America: 1800 to the Present''. Chichester: Wiley, 2010. 2nd ed., 2016. 3rd ed, 2022. * ''We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014''. Springer Nature, 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Meade, Teresa 1948 births Living people American historians American women historians Historians of Latin America University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Rutgers University alumni Union College (New York) faculty