• Helen Delpar
  Professor of History Emerita
  Ph.D., Columbia University, 1967
  hdelpar@tenhoor.as.ua.edu
  
  

  Research Interests:

• U.S.-Latin American relations
• History of modern Mexico
• History of modern Colombia
• Women & gender in Latin America
  
  

  Courses Recently Taught:

• Colonial Latin America (HY 237)
• Modern Latin America since 1808 (HY 238)
• Literature of Latin America (HY 605)
• Women in Latin America (HY 4/500)
  

Recent and Selected Publications:

• “Lewis Hanke and Latin American History: The Legacy of an ‘Old Christian,’" SECOLAS Annals 34 (2002): 141-55.
• “Exiliados y expatriados estadounidenses en México (1920-1940),” in Pablo Yankelovich, ed., México, país refugio: La experiencia de los exilios en el siglo XX (INAH-Plaza y Valdés, 2002), 141-53.
• “Mexican Culture, 1920-1945,” in Michael C. Meyer & William H. Beezley, eds., Oxford History of Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2000), 543-72.
• “Inter-American Relations and Encounters: Recent Directions in the Literature,” Latin American Research Review 35 (2000): 155-72.
• Co-author, A Reference Guide to Latin America (M.E. Sharpe, 2000).
• The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations Between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935 (University of Alabama Press, 1992).
• Red Against Blue: The Liberal Party in Colombian Politics, 1863-1899 (University of Alabama Press, 1982).
• The Discoverers: An Encyclopedia of Explorers and Exploration (McGraw-Hill, 1980).
  

Current Project:

• The development of Latin American studies in the U.S., 1850-1970

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• A. B. Thomas Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, for The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations Between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935 (1992)