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CLACS is honored to welcome Isabella Cosse as our Mellon Visiting Professor for Spring 2025! Professor Cosse is a scholar of gender, childhood, and family in late twentieth-century Argentina and Latin America. She is Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, and researcher at CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research). She has been a visiting researcher in El Colegio de México, Fulbright Fellow and Tinker Professor at Columbia University, and she has taught in different universities in Argentina and Latin America. Her books include Estigmas de nacimiento (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006), Pareja, sexualidad y familia en los años sesenta (Siglo XXI, 2010), and Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic (Duke University Press, 2020). She is finishing a collective book, The Island and the World. Global Cuba in the Cold War (coedited with M. Chase) and her own book project entitled “Love and Politics during the Cold War.”
Professor Cosse will teach two courses during her residency at Duke:
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Politics, Sexuality, and Family in Latin America during the Cold War
LATAMER 390S-01/HISTORY 390S-01/GSF 390S-01/ROMST 390S-02
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 11:45am-1:00pm
Classroom Building 125
Instructor: Isabella Cosse
Deals with the Latin American Cold War through the lens of sexuality and family with a gender perspective and a fresh angle focused on the global dynamics of a turbulent time.
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History of Humor: Sociocultural and Political Approaches
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LATAMER 590S-01/HISTORY 590S-01/ROMST 590S-01
Wednesdays, 1:40-4:10pm
West Duke 108A
Instructor: Isabella Cosse
Offers an introduction to the history of humor and an array of approaches for exploring historical and social phenomena through its unique perspective, with a focus on Latin America.
*Note: Reading proficiency in Spanish is preferred, but that for those readings, alternatives can be provided.
Please email Patrick Semmler, patrick.semmler@duke.edu, with questions for regarding either course.