Eileen Findlay

Associate Professor
Department of History

• Additional Positions at AU

  Affiliated Faculty, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  Clendenen Professor of History (2010-12)
  Interim Co-Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2008-09)
  
• Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship. Findlay's first book, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 was published with Duke University Press. In her article, “Courtroom Tales of Sex and Honor: Rapto and Rape in Late-Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico,” published in Sueann Caulfield, et al, eds., Honor, Status, and the Law in Modern Latin America, Findlay began to explore her current interest in laboring people’s artistic and political shaping of oral narratives. She has continued these investigations through her development of two oral history projects, one with Cuban ex-revolutionaries living in Miami, Florida, and the other with Nuyorican return migrants to Puerto Rico, from which she has published a number of articles. Finally, Findlay is in the midst of writing a second book manuscript entitled "'We Are Left Without a Father Here': Transnational Domesticity, Colonial Populism, and Puerto Rican Labor Migration, 1935-1960."

• Degrees

  PhD, 1995, Latin American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  BA, 1982, Religion, Oberlin College

• Languages Spoken:

  Fluent Spanish
  Proficient French
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