Jane M. Rausch

All Latin Americanists are generalists to some degree for we study the history of 21 different countries from pre-Columbian times to the present. Between 1969 and 2010, I taught undergraduate and graduate survey courses on Latin America and the Caribbean during the colonial and national eras.  Since my retirement in 2010 I have focused my energies upon my ongoing research specializations: the history of Colombia and comparative Latin American frontiers. In 2014 I published a book dealing with Colombia’s role as a neutral country in World War I.  My current project is an examination of the impact on Colombia of the influenza pandemic of 1918.

• Colombia and World War I: The Experience of a Neutral Latin American Nation during the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-1921 (Lexington Books, 2014)
• Territorial Rule in Columbia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales (University of Florida Press, 2013)
• From Frontier Town to Metropolis: A History of Villavicencio, Colombia, since 1842 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)
• Colombia: Territorial Rule and the Llanos Frontier (University Press of Florida, 1999)
• The Llanos Frontier in Colombian History, 1830-1930 (University of New Mexico Press, 1993)
• Co-Editor, People and Issues in Latin American History (Markus Wiener Publishers, 1990)
• A Tropical Plains Frontier: The Llanos of Colombia 1531-1831 (University of New Mexico Press, 1984)
• Co-Editor, Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History (Scholarly Resources, 1994)

On August 15, 2014 Fulbright Colombia organized a special ceremony to mark Prof. Rausch's 50 years of dedication to the history of Colombia and the occasion of her first visit to Colombia in 1964.