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First Name
Jennifer
Last Name
Hoyt
Affiliation
Berry College
Website URL
https://sites.berry.edu/jhoyt/
Keywords
Modern Latin America, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Cold War, militarism, authoritarianism, urbanism, environmentalism, cities, protest, urban planning, modernity
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About Me

Assistant Professor of History at Berry College.

Expertise: Modern Latin America, militarism and authoritarian regimes, Argentina, Buenos Aires, urban and environmental history, modernity, and the Cold War.

Courses Taught: World History Since 1550, Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, Modern Mexico, Environmental History, Introduction to Latin American Studies, and Militarism in Latin America.

Recent Publications
  • Beyond the Dirty War: Urban Reforms and Protest in Buenos Aires, 1976-1983. Manuscript in progress.
  • “U.S.-Argentine Relations,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedias in History (Fall2016).
  • “Clean, Fast, and Green: Urban Reforms in Buenos Aires and Cold War Ideologies, 1976-1983.” Urban History, Vol 42, No 4 (Nov 2015): 646-662
  • “The Other Dirty War: Cleaning up Buenos Aires during the Last Dictatorship (1976-1983),” in Beyond the Eagle’s Shadow: New Histories of Latin America’s Cold War. Mark A. Lawrence, Virginia Garrard-Burnett, and Julio E. Moreno, eds. (University of New Mexico Press, 2013).
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Latin America
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Environment, Local & Regional, Military, Urban History