Participant Info
- First Name
- María de los Ángeles
- Last Name
- Picone
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- angeles.picone@bc.edu
- Affiliation
- Boston College
- Website URL
- www.mapicone.com
- Keywords
- Spatial history, Border Regions, Environmental History, Modern Latin American History, Chile, Argentina, Nation-Making, Geography, Space and Place.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of Modern Latin America with an interest in nation-making, border regions, spatial history, and the environment.
I am currently Assistant Professor of History at Boston College.
My book project examines how explorers, settlers, authorities, visitors, and bandits in the Northern Patagonian Andes, a border region between Chile and Argentina, created new understandings of the nation through their regional, often cross-border experiences of a space. This study shows how these different actors sought to make Patagonia their own by transforming a collection of geographical sites into a landscape that evoked a shared past and a common future. I examine the changing ways that people imagined the Northern Patagonian Andes and how they depicted it to others. My project analyzes written, visual, and geospatial sources to reveal multiple understandings of the border region that generated different interpretations of the nation.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @mdlapicone
- Country Focus
- Chile, Argentina
- Expertise by Geography
- Latin America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Environment, Migration & Immigration, Museums, Science
