Jane M. Rausch
Professor Emerita
Telephone: (413) 253-7218
E-mail: jrausch@history.umass.edu
Research Interests and Professional Activities
All Latin Americanists are generalists to some degree for we study the history of twenty-one 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.
Professor Jane Rausch holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin.
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 my 50 years of dedication to the history of Colombia and the occasion of my first visit to Colombia in 1964.
