Dr. Patrice Olsen
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
104.003History Of Latin America
307.002Selected Topics In Non-Western History
478.001Seminar: Topics In Global History
104.003History Of Latin America
263.001Modern Mexico
490.003Readings -- Field Of Study
291.005Undergraduate Teaching Experience In History
Teaching Interests & Areas
Professor Olsen is a specialist in Latin American history. Her manuscript, "Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940," (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) received the Lewis Hanke Prize from the Conference on Latin American History, and the Michael C. Meyer Award from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies. Other publication areas include Latin American architecture and popular culture, and U.S. national security, the Bush Doctrine, and foreign intelligence. Her teaching fields include colonial and modern Latin American history, environmental history and human rights, the Borderlands, Latin American military history, foreign intelligence and covert operations, and U.S. nuclear history and strategy. She has also been co-director of ISU's study tours to Cuba, and coordinates environmental history programs in the Peruvian Amazon. She received the University Teaching Initiative Award in 2002-2003, and the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding College Teacher Award (Social Sciences) in 2004-05. Her current research includes collective memory and monumentality in Cuba, the relationship between human and environmental rights in Peru, the atomic landscape, and foreign intelligence and hemispheric security. An avid photographer, her work has been published in various texts and multimedia forms.
Research Interests & Areas
Modern Latin American history, focusing on human rights. Foreign Intelligence and comparative military history.
Ph D Modern Latin American History
MA Modern Latin American History
Nominee, Oustanding University Teaching
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Award
Nominee, Outstanding University Teacher
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in America
Book, Authored
Book, Chapter
Oxford University Press, 2021.
Presentations
Olsen, Patrice. “Would Silence + Life? Mexican and Central American Women in the War on Drugs”. Presented at the Latin American Studies Association XXXV International Congress, Lima, Peru 29 April-1 May 2017.