BARBARA GANSON, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History Florida Atlantic University Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of History 2912 College Avenue Davie, FL 33431 (954) 236-1114 (office) (954) 236-1150 (fax) E-Mail: [email protected] I am a social and cultural historian who specializes in the native cultures of South America with an emphasis on the region of the Rio de la Plata. I have recently been working in the field of gender and technology; more particularly, the history of women in aviation from a global and comparative perspective. EDUCATION: Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin, August, 1994. Master of Arts, Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, August, l984. Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in History, San José State University, May, 1980. Academic Employment: Associate Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University, 1999-Present. Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University, 1994-1999 (promoted and tenured in 1999). Curriculum Director, in conjunction with Gustavus “Gus” McLeod’s Round the World Pole to Pole World Aviation Record Attempt and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, 2002-Present. Teaching Assistant for U.S. History and Race Relations in the U.S., Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1987-l990, l99l-l993. Dr. George Wright. Research Assistant to U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay and Panama, Arthur H. Davis, 1982-1985, National Archives and Library of Congress, Washington DC.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Undergraduate Courses: Colonial Latin American History Independence of Latin America Modern Latin American History Women in Latin American History Gender, Race, and Empire The Birth of Aviation and its Impact on the Twentieth Century, 1903-1945 Introduction to Historical Methods: Aviation History Senior Seminar: America in the 1920s and 1930s Explorations in Ethnohistory: The Indian in the Americas Graduate Seminars: Explorations in Ethnohistory: The Indian in the Americas. Comparative Frontiers and Spanish Borderlands AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS: 2003 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title for The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata (Stanford University Press, 2003). 1999 Latin American/African History Prize for the best paper presented at the Southwestern Historical Association Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 1-3, l999. l996-l997, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Florida Atlantic University, one of eight teaching awards granted university-wide. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS: 2005 NEH/AHA Summer Stipend to attend seminar at the Library of Congress, “Rethinking United States History from a Global Perspective,” June-July 2005. 2005 Summer research stipend, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, to conduct research on book project on Women in the Golden Age of Aviation, 1919-1939. 2003-2004, Scholarly and Creative Activities Award from the Division Sponsored Research and Graduate Studies, Florida Atlantic University, for a new book project in the field of gender history and technology and to assist with Pole to Pole Flight. 2003 Wolf Aviation Fund 2001 Sabbatical Fellowship Florida Atlantic University, International Travel Grant to Quito, Ecuador, July 711, l997.

Florida Atlantic University, Curriculum Development Award to participate in a NEH-sponsored weekly faculty seminar on "Women in Twentieth-Century Latin America," 1996-1997, to improve FAU programs in Women's Studies and Latin American Studies. Florida Atlantic University, Summer Supplemental Research Grant, l995. Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Saint Louis University, Vatican Film Library, May 1995. Florida Atlantic University, International Travel Grant to Mexico City, April 1995. National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Award, 1993-1994. University of Texas Graduate School Fellowship (Department of History nomination only), l992. U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship to Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, l990-l99l. University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Latin American Studies FacultySponsored Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants, 1989 and l990. Dora Bonham Award, Department of History, University of Texas, l990. University of Texas Graduate School Professional Development Award, 1988. Department of History, Centennial Graduate Student Support Grant, 1988. LISTINGS: Who’s Who in America Contemporary Authors Outstanding Academics of the 21st Century PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE: American Historical Association. Conference on Latin American History. President, Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies Committee, 1999-2000. Secretary, Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies Committee, l998-l999. Member, Lewis Hanke Prize Committee 2003. Southwestern Historical Association, President, 2002-2003. Vice President and General Program Chair, 2001-2002 Vice President in charge of the Latin American and African History program, 2000-2001 Southwestern Social Science Association, Member, Nominations Committee 2003-Present. UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, 1994-Present, Davie Campus. Coordinator, Latin American Studies Certificate Program, 1999-Present President, University Chapter, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2001-2003 Vice President, University Chapter, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1999-2001 Member, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, By-Laws Committee, 2002-2003. Member, History Awards Committee, Department of History, 1997, 2003Present Member, History Curriculum Committee, 2004-2005 Chair and Elected Member, University Teaching Awards Committee, 1998-1999. Elected College Representative to the University Research Committee, 19982000 Chair and elected at large member, Awards Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1998-2000 Chair, Salary Compression/Inversion Committee, 1995-1996, College of Liberal Arts Search Committee Member for U.S. History position, 1996. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: Books: The Guaraní Under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). Current Project: “Women in the Golden Age of Aviation, 1919-1939.” A booklength study of women in the aviation industry. Planned chapters include discussion of women aviators from the United States, Great Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Japan, China, Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and other countries; women in the manufacturing of aircraft, women aircraft executives in business and government, women mechanics, flight attendants, women passengers, and women aerospace engineers. Articles: “Paraguayan Women in the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870,” in Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, ed. Reina Pennington (Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003) l:333-335. "Our Children are Now in the Forest: Guaraní Responses to the Expulsion of the Jesuits from the Río de la Plata, 1767-1770," in O Espaço Jesuítico-Missioneiro:

Aspectos da colonizaçao ibero-americana e seu impacto na sociedade contemporãnea, (Sáo Paulo, l999): 41-54. "'Like Children Under Wise Parental Sway': Passive Portrayals of Guaraní Indians in European Literature and The Mission," Colonial Latin American Historical Review 3 (Fall 1994): 399-422. "Following Their Children into Battle: Women at War in Paraguay, 1864-1870." The Americas 46 (January 1990): 335-7l. "Contacto intercultural: Un estudio de los payaguaes del Paraguay, l528-l870." Suplemento Antropológico Centro de Estudios Antropológicos, Universidad Católica de Asunción 24 (June l989): 79-l2l. "The Evueví of Paraguay: Adaptive Strategies and Responses to Colonialism, 1528-1811." The Americas 45 (April 1989): 461-88. "Las consecuencias demográficas y sociales de la Guerra de la Triple Alianza, l864-l870." Instituto Paraguayo de Investigaciones Historicas, Asunción, Paraguay, 1985. Book reviews and occasional reviewer of manuscripts for: American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, Colonial Latin American Review, Latin American Indian Literatures Journal, Revista Interamericana de Bibliografía/InterAmerican Review of Bibliography, International Historical Review, History: Review of New Books, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Australia), Gender, Place, and Culture, Colonial Latin American Historical Review, and Ethnohistory.