Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Africana Studies. 3401 Walnut Street, 3rd floor
Professor Helg is an scholar of worldwide recognition in the field of Latin American History and Politics who has written extensively on issues of slave liberation movements and equal rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her works focus on questions of social hierarchies based on race and color distinctions, and the participation process of Blacks and Mulattoes in post-independent politics and governance in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, and Haiti. She also discusses issues of education and economic development in those regions in a comparative perspective. Themes such as identity, politics, social revolutions, nation building and reconstruction, and racial equality and nationalism are at the core of her scholarship.
Professor Aline Helg holds impressive credentials: She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Geneva; and her Masters, from the University College of London. She is currently a full professor at the University of Geneva. She taught in the United States at the University of Texas-Austin where she was an assistant professor of History from 1989 to 1995; and an associate professor from 1995 to 2003, when she relocated to Geneva. She also held academic appointments at the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In addition, she participated in scholarly exchange programs at the University of Havana and in Argentina; and she was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center at the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.
Co-sponsors:
Center for Africana Studies, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, department of History and LALS