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Professor, Mt. Holyoke College
Office: Skinner Hall, Room 303
Telephone: (413) 538-2378
E-mail: lgudmund@mtholyoke.edu
Degree: Ph.D., University of Minnesota (1982)
Field(s) of interest: Central America; contemporary Central American politics; Costa Rica
Graduate Courses Offered:
Agrarian Americas (Not Online)
Latin American Historiography 1823-Present
Research Interests and Professional Activities:
Lowell Gudmundson has served as chair of Mount Holyoke's Latin American Studies Program since coming to the College in 1992. A promoter and product of the dramatic developments within social science research and the historical profession in Costa Rica during the 1970s, Gudmundson teaches the introductions to the field of Latin American studies as well a variety of courses in the social and economic history of the Americas. His comparative and interdisciplinary interests have led to such courses as Slavery in the Americas; Agrarian America: Sugar, Coffee, Cotton, Wheat; The Original Other: Postmodernism and Latin America; and Literature and Revolution in Central America. Prior to coming to Mount Holyoke, he taught for seven years at the Universidad Nacional and the Universidad de Costa Rica, followed by appointments at Florida International University and the University of Oklahoma.
A leading figure in the fields of agrarian and social history in Latin America in general, and in Central America in particular, Gudmundson has held editorial board appointments with major journals in the field, such as the Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, and the Revista de Historia. He has also been elected to the General Committee of the Conference on Latin American History of the American Historical Association. His research and training have won support from the Ford and Tinker Foundations, the Social Science Research Council, the Howard Heinz Endowment, and (three times) from the Fulbright Program. His books include: (as coeditor and contributor) Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America (1995); (with Hector Lindo-Fuentes) Central America, 1821–1871 (1995); Costa Rica before Coffee (in both English and Spanish editions, 1986, 1990); and three edited collections on social history topics published in Costa Rica in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Gudmundson is currently pursuing research in both Guatemala and Costa Rica. |
