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Telephone: (413) 253-7218
Degree: PhD, University of Wisconsin
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.
Research Areas
Colombia, Latin American frontiers
Publications
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)
Awards and Accolades
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.