Jimena Perry, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Clinical Lecturer, History Department
- Office:
- 10 President Street
- Email:
- jperry@iona.edu
Degrees:
- Ph.D., History - The University of Texas at Austin
- MA, History - The University of Texas at Austin
- MPhil, Social Anthropology - Cambridge University, United Kingdom
- BS, Anthropology - Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Dr. Jimena Perry teaches Emergence of Modern Latin America and Tradition and Modernity: the Challenges of the Non-Western World. Her research interests are memory, human rights, public history, and museums in Latin America. She has served as an assistant instructor at The University of Texas at Austin, East Carolina University, and has also taught at universities in her hometown of Bogotá, Colombia.
- “Official Memories of Violence at the National Museum of Colombia, 1980-2000: Cocktails, Art or Social Criticism?” A Contracorriente: Una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. North Carolina State University. Vol. 18 No. 1 (2020): Fall 2020.
- “Are there any Indians left in Colombia? The indigenista movement from 1940 to 1950.” Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, AIBR. Vol. 11, No, 3 September – December 2016. Pp. 363 – 381.
- "La exposición arqueológica y etnográfica de 1938 en Colombia: un primer intercambio cultural." Arqueología y Etnología en Colombia. La creación de una tradición científica (p.79-95). University of Los Andes, Social Sciences Faculty, Department of Anthropology. Center of Sociocultural and International Studies. Bogotá, 2009.
- Caminos de la antropología e Colombia: Gregorio Hernández de Alba. University of Los Andes. Center of Sociocultural and International Studies. Bogotá, 2006.