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Dr. Adriana Novoa

Hi, I'm Dr. Adriana Novoa, your teacher for the History of Sports from National to Global Contexts. I'm originally from Argentina, and I’d love to share a bit about myself. Argentina is a large country in South America, and I’m from Buenos Aires, which I believe is the best city in the world! As for sports, I grew up a passionate fan of Huracán, one of Argentina’s oldest soccer teams. My family has been loyal supporters for generations. If you're choosing a team, Huracán is a great pick! (Just teasing, of course!)I didn’t always take sports seriously, but over time, I began exploring how historians and philosophers view sports as a reflection of society. This led me to create this course, where we'll explore how sports connect us to important historical events and their significance in today's world. I hope you enjoy the course, and I look forward to getting to know you through your work!

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I received my BA in History from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. I did graduate work at the Instituto Di Tella under the Supervision of Torcuato di Tella before going to the University of California, San Diego, where I completed my MA and PhD in Latin America History. I am a cultural historian whose specialty is science in Latin America, and with Alex Levine I have written two books about Darwinism in Argentina (From Man to Monkey, The University of Chicago Press, 2010; and Darwinistas!, Brill 2012). I am currently completing another manuscript on this topic, which treats the politics of evolutionism and its relationship to gender and race: Unclaimed Fright: Race, Masculinity and National Identity in Argentina, 1850-1910, and is also in the process of researching a new project about the cultural history of the idea of disappearance in Argentina. My articles have been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Science in Context, The Latinoamericanist, and Revista Hispánica Moderna, among others. My classes deal with cultural conflict and identity formation in post-independence Latin America.

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My courses cover a wide variety of historical subjects, ranging from national formation to present globalization, as well as such thematic complexes as gender, sports, science, film, and revolutionary politics. I am trained as a cultural historian, but my work is interdisciplinary in nature. I created several courses that concentrated on the two crucial historical periods that offered students the clearest opportunity to establish connections with the more familiar paths of European and US historical development. One set of courses deals with the period of nation formation in the nineteenth century, the other with the culture of the 1960s, when revolutionary anti-imperialism produced an extraordinary number of artistic and literary works addressing such issues as cultural agency and nationalism. Tracing the legacy of the sixties, the latter courses examine events leading to the present, following the trajectories of such ideological forces as populism. By studying the process of identity formation, modernism, or the different conceptions of national culture,

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students are able to conceptually absorb the study of a new area at an appropriate upper division level, in spite of their diverse disciplinary interests and lack of background in Latin America. Approaching the understanding of Latin America through concepts with which most students were familiar (identity, revolution, modernism, modernization, globalization, etc.), helped them to transcend their perceived distance from the subject. My goals in undergraduate teaching are: (first) to provide students with a conceptual approach that helps them to view Latin American history and culture in a wider perspective favoring comparisons with other areas, such as Europe and the United States, and (second) to provide students with analytical and writing skills that will serve them beyond their college years. My courses encourage and facilitate discussion through daily opportunities to exchange ideas as well as designated exchanges over historiographical debates.

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Email: ainovoa@usf.edu Office Location: SOC 207Office Hours: By appointment

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