Liz Shesko

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Ph.D program in History (Expected April 2012)
Certificate in Latin American Cultural Studies (2008)
Examination Fields (April 2008): Colonial and Modern Bolivia (John D. French, Chair), Modern Latin America (Jocelyn Olcott), Colonial Latin America (Pete Sigal), Cultural Anthropology (Orin Starn)
Dissertation entitled: "Conscript Nation: Authority and Belonging in the Bolivian Barracks, 1900-1958."

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
A.B., Spanish and English, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Departmental Honors in Spanish for thesis entitled "Fusionando dos mundos: El diálogo con la oralidad en Sula y Cien años de soledad" (Enrique Yepes, Advisor)

2010

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2010

Book Review: Kathryn Burns. "Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru," Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists 8:2 (Winter, 2010): 59-63.

"Hijos del inca. El congreso indígenal de 1945", en Fuentes. Revista de la Biblioteca y Archivo Histórico de la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional 4, no. 6 (2010): 5-10 ( La Paz, Bolivia).

"Conscripción, exención y ‘nuestro aporte de sangre’: El potencial de las fuentes militares." desArchivando ( La Paz, Bolivia)

Instructor (Duke) for “Introduction to Contemporary Latin America,” an interdisciplinary course on Latin America. Responsible for designing course syllabus, conducting class sessions, and assessing student work. Course was cross-listed in History, Latin American Studies, and International and Comparative Studies.

Assistant (Duke) for Caribbean - 18th Century, taught by David Barry Gaspar.

American School of Guatemala, Guatemala City
First Grade Teacher: Taught all academic subjects in English to Guatemalan students at bilingual school. Assisted in development of report card and curriculum

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Spanish Teaching Assistant: Planned and instructed mandatory weekly conversation sessions.

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Writing Assistant: Completed a semester of intensive training in tutoring. Assisted students with the revision of papers for content, organization and style. Worked individually with an ESL student.

2011-2012

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1998-2002
1998

Hartman Center Special Collections Reference Intern Fellowship

William R. Perkins Library Archival Processing Intern Fellowship
Franklin Humanities Institute Dissertation Working Group Fellow
Duke International Fellowship
Foreign Language and Areas Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Research in Spanish
Summer Foreign Language and Areas Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Aymara
Duke Summer Research Fellowship
James B. Duke Fellowship (competitive University-wide grant that supplements departmental stipends for four years)
Duke Graduate School Travel Grant for International Research
Tinker Graduate Student Research Grant
Summer Foreign Language and Areas Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Portuguese
Duke History Department Summer Travel Grant
Phi Beta Kappa, Bowdoin College
Philip C. Bradley Spanish Prize, Bowdoin College (awarded yearly to one outstanding student in Spanish language and literature)
Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar
National Merit Commended Student

2011

Co-organizer of an interdisciplinary international research conference held at Duke University, “Beyond the Battlefield: The Labor of Military Service in Latin American and the Caribbean,” which focused on states’ uses of military labor and soldiers’ work both on and off the battlefield, bringing together scholars of the military and of labor to provoke a dialogue to move both fields forward. Raised $7400 to support the conference.

2011

Designer and developer of “Boots, Guns, and Tractors: United States Civic Action Programs in 1960s Latin America,” a multimedia exhibit containing video, maps, and text displayed on the LINK MediaWall at Duke University’s Perkins Library.

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“‘With Skin the Color of Copper’: Reading Race in Bolivia’s Military Archives.” To be presented at the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 5-8, 2012.

“‘Our Sons who Defend the Honor and Integrity of the Patria’: Using Military Sources to Rethink the ‘Indian Problem’.” To be presented at the American Historical Association, Boston, MA, January 6, 2011.
“Conscripting the State: Contributions of Obligatory Military Service to the Bolivian Economy.” Presented at the Latin American Studies Association in Toronto, Canada, October 6, 2010.
Archivos paraguayos para el estudio de la Guerra del Chaco.” Presented at the Biblioteca y Archivo Histórico del Asamblea Legislativo Plurinacional, La Paz, Bolivia, May 6, 2010.
“El potencial de los archivos militares.” Presented to the Encuentro Latinoamericano de Bibliotecarios, Archivistas y Museólogos, La Paz, Bolivia, September 15, 2009.
“Deserters, Traitors, and Izqueridistas: How the ‘Bad Sons of Bolivia’ Strengthened the State.” Presented at the Latin American & Caribbean Graduate Student Workshop, Duke University, April 3, 2009.
“Exploring Gendered Citizenship in Bolivia through Obligatory Military Service.” Presented to the UNC/Duke Working Group in Feminism and History, Durham, North Carolina, November 11, 2008.
“La historia del servicio militar obligatorio en Bolivia.” Presented to the History Department, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia, June 27, 2008
“Children of the Inca and of the Patria: Representations of Indigeneity at Bolivia’s 1945 Indigenous Congress.” Presented at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum Conference on Origins, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 29, 2008
“‘Who Will Speak for the Indian’?: Representations of Indigeneity at Bolivia’s 1945 Indigenous Congress.” Presented at the Carolina and Duke Consortium Conference: The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 9, 2008 and at the North Carolina History Graduate Student Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 16, 2008

2009

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Fall 2008

2008-2009

Faculty Mentor for student service project to Argentina through DukeEngage

Member of History Graduate Admissions Committee

Chair of Duke History Graduate Student Association

Member of Duke History Graduate/Faculty Committee

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2003-2005

Research assistant for transnational historian Dominic Sachsenmaier ( Duke University)

American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
Program Committee Assistant for the 2008 AHA Annual Meeting

Lynch, Brewer, Hoffmann & Fink, LLP, Boston, Massachusetts
Paralegal: Assisted in the defense of an $8 million corporate fraud case.

American Historical Association (AHA)
Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Bolivian Studies Association (BSA)

Spanish: advanced command; passed graduate language exam in October, 2005
Portuguese: intermediate ability; passed graduate language exam in October, 2007
Aymara: intermediate ability