Faculty in History
Dr. Wiebke Ipsen
Assistant Professor of History
200A Stevens Hall
207-581-1963
E-mail:
wiebke_ipsen@umit.maine.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of California-Irvine,
2005
M.A., San Francisco State University, 1996
Undergraduate work at Johann Wolfgang
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and
University of San Francisco
Courses Currently Taught
HTY 109 - Introduction to Early Latin
American History
HTY 199 - Introduction to Modern Latin America
HTY 452 - History of Women and Gender in Latin America
HTY 499 - Cultural History of Brazil
My research focuses on the connections
between gender and nation-building in Brazil from the Paraguayan War,
1865-1870, to the country's first republican constitution, 1891. I am
most interested in the themes of female patriotism and women's
participation in the public sphere. Currently, I am working on a
book manuscript tentatively titled Delicate Citizenship - Gender and
Nationbuilding in Brazil, 1865-1891.
