Carmen Kordick de Cubero
Assistant Professor of History
113 Humber White House
478-445-7380
carmen.decubero@gcsu.edu
Fields:
Modern and Colonial Latin America
Central America (National Period)
Latin American Migrations
Cultural History
Publications:
Carmen Kordick de Cubero, “Manteniendo el orden: Género, clase social, el estado y la violencia” in the University of Costa Rica’s Revista de Ciencias Sociales (forthcoming 2012)
Carmen Kordick de Cubero, "Costa Rica's First Immigrants to New York and New Jersey," in Carlos Sandoval García and Mónica Brenes, ed., The Broken Myth: Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica. Lanham, M.D.: Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books (2011)
Carmen Kordick Rothe, “La memoria del viaje: Primeros emigrantes de Costa Rica a Nueva York y Nueva Yersey,” in Carlos Sandoval García and Mónica Brenes, ed., Inmigración y emigración en Costa Rica. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2007.
Classes Taught:
“Latin America in the National Period, 1810-present”
“World Civilization & Society II: Exploration, Imperialism, Exchange, and the Creation of the Modern World”
“Imperialism, Race and Nation Building in Central America”
Current Project:
Carmen Kordick de Cubero’s dissertation is entitled “Tarrazú: Coffee, Migration, and Nation Building in Rural Costa Rica, 1824-2008.”
Her dissertation examines the historical development of Costa Rica’s most renowned coffee region, Tarrazú, from the arrival of the first colonists in the 1820s to the present. Her work not only to narrates the unique history of this rural region’s economic, social, cultural, and political development, but also serves to complicate traditional narratives of Costa Rican history, that have touted Costa Rica as an egalitarian, democratic, and white (i.e. European-American and non- indigenous) nation with nothing in common with its non-democratic, highly indigenous Central American neighbors.
Future Teaching Interests:
Revolutions in Central America
Transnational History
Methodology and Historiography
Immigration in the Americas
U.S.-Latin American Relations
Latinos in the U.S.
Mexican American History
