Jordana Dym
Jordana Dym is Professor of History whose research and teaching interests include
Latin America, the history of cartography, book history and public history. She teaches
a Latin American survey, regional courses on Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico,
and topics courses on the history of travel and travel writing, war and peace, maps,
and publics. Engaging with written, visual and aural sources, her classes encourage
students to present findings in papers, newspaper article, sound stories, websites
and exhibits. She offers a first-year seminar on maps in the world, and enjoys building
international connections for and with students in travel programs in France, Mexico,
Cuba, Guatemala and Puerto Rico. She has twice directed Skidmore's Latin American
Studies minor program, and was the inaugural director of the John B. Moore Documentary
Studies Collaborative (MDOCS) (2014-2018), developing the DocLab, and Storytellers' Institute.
Jordana's publications include From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central
America, 1759-1839 (2006) and (2021), articles in French, English and Spanish, and an exhibit catalog, Declarando Independencias (Archivo General de la Naci贸n, Mexico, 2010). She has collaborated with colleagues
in the Americas, Europe and beyond as editor of 惭别蝉辞补尘茅谤颈肠补 (2008-2013), guest editor of special issues for Araucaria and Colonial Latin America Review, and co-edited four books: Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America (with C. Belaubre, 2007), Napol茅on et les Am茅riques (with C. Belaubre and J. Savage, 2009; English edition, 2010), Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader (with K. Offen, 2011); Las declarations de independencia: Los textos fundamentals de las independencias americanas (with A. 脕vila and E. Pani, 2013); Centroam茅rica durante las revoluciones atl谩nticas: el vocabulario pol铆tico, 1750-1850 (with S. Herrera Mena).