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Historian with a focus on the political economy of care, particularly in Latin America

Jocelyn Olcott is Professor of History and of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Duke UP, 2005) and International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History (Oxford UP, 2017). She edited a special issue of Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) on paid and unpaid domestic labor and co-edited Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (Duke UP, 2006; in translation with Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2009), The Academic’s Handbook (2020) and a special issue of Azimuth entitled “Critical Care.” She has published numerous articles and chapters in edited collections and served as a senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review (2012-17). She is the founding director of Revaluing Care in the Global Economy and currently working on two book projects: one on the Mexican folksinger and activist Concha Michel and the other on the cohort of activist intellectuals in the Global South who came of age amid the implementation of a formal measured economy that largely elided women’s labor.

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Governance, Latin America/Caribbean, Metrics

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