Assistant Professor Emily Wakild

Latin American and Environmental History
B-109 Tribble Hall, 758-4517
e-mail: wakildel@wfu.edu

Education:
BA Willamette University
MA University of Arizona
Ph.D. University of Arizona

Courses Offered:
HST 104: World Civilizations since 1500
HST 108: The Americas and the World
HST 284: Latin America’s Colonial Past
HST 275: Modern Latin America
HST 351: Global Environmental History
HST 390: Research Seminar: The Culture of Poverty in Mexico
FYS: The Dirt on Development

Professional and Research Interests: The social and environmental history of Latin America; the history of the Mexican Revolution; the history of conservation and national parks; climate history

Selected Publications:
“Border Chasm: International Boundary Parks and Mexican Conservation 1935-1945” Environmental History,14:3(July 2009).

“Purchasing Patagonia: The Contradictions of Conservation in Free Market Chile” in Bill Alexander, ed.  "Lost in Transition" in Chile: A Critique of Neoliberalism from Pinochet to "The Third Way," Lexington Books, 2009.

“Naturalizing Modernity: Urban Parks, Public Gardens, and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City,” Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies, 23.1 (Winter 2007).

“Big Bend National Park” and “Natural Protected Areas/Parks” in Andrew G. Wood, ed., The U.S.-Mexico Border: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics (New York: Greenwood Press, 2008).