Faculty Profile
Marcelo Borges
Professor of History; Boyd Lee Spahr Chair in the History of the Americas (1997)
Contact Information
Denny Hall Room 111
717-245-1186
https://blogs.dickinson.edu/borges/
Bio
Marcelo Borges teaches Latin American history and migration history. His current research focuses on the history of migration, epistolary practices in context of migration, and the history of emotions. His publications include Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective (2009), Migrant Letters: Emotional Language, Mobile Identities, and Writing Practices in Historical Perspective (with Sonia Cancian, 2018), and Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration (with Sonia Cancian and Linda Reeder, 2021). He has been a visiting researcher at the Social Science Institute of the University of Lisbon, and a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies.
Education
- Licenciado en Historia, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1988
- Profesor en Historia, 1988
- Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1997
2024-2025 Academic Year
Fall 2024
HIST 130 Early Lat Am History to 1800
Cross-listed with LALC 230-01.
LALC 230 Early Lat Am History to 1800
Cross-listed with HIST 130-01.
HIST 283 Latin American-U.S. Relations
Cross-listed with LALC 283-01.
LALC 283 Latin American-U.S. Relations
Cross-listed with HIST 283-01.
HIST 500 Japanese Migration in Brazil
Spring 2025
HIST 131 Mod Lat Am Hist since 1800
Cross-listed with LALC 231-01.
HIST 205 Public History
Public history explores the ways history is put to work in the world. Public historians–who work in a range of institutions–share a commitment to making history relevant and useful in the public sphere beyond the walls of the traditional classroom. Sites of public history include educational spaces, archives, and, at times, contested places: battlefields, museums, documentaries, historical societies, national and state parks, local oral history projects, and sites of historic preservation. Public history is firmly rooted in the methods of the discipline of history, but with an added emphasis on the skills and perspectives useful in public history practice and on the ethics of listening to multiple publics. The term “public history” emerged in the 1970s in the United States with an emphasis on ideals of social justice, political activism, and community engagement. In other parts of the world, public history is often known as “Heritage Studies”. In this course, students will learn about the evolution of the field of public history, discuss best practices and practical challenges within the field, and will culminate the learning process through work on a public history project in conjunction with the Cumberland County Historical Society.
LALC 231 Mod Lat Am Hist since 1800
Cross-listed with HIST 131-01.