Romina Green

Professor Green Rioja’s research interests include examining structural racism in modern Chilean history and identifying settler-colonial policies that displaced the Indigenous Mapuche.

Romina Green

Romina Green

Assistant Professor of History

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Education

  • UC Irvine, Ph.D. History, 2018
  • Tufts University, M.A. History, 2012
  • San Francisco State University, B.A. History, 2009

Research

Professor Green Rioja’s research interests include examining structural racism in modern Chilean history and identifying settler-colonial policies that displaced the Indigenous Mapuche. Her current book manuscript, To Govern is to Educate: Modeling Racial Education in Modern Chile (1879-1920), explores the relationship between state education, immigration policies, and the spread of agrarian capitalism in late nineteenth-century Chile. She also researches topics in gender history and historical memory.

Teaching

  • LACS 101: Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Fall 2026, 2027)
  • HIST 130: Colonial Latin America (Fall terms)
  • HIST 131: Modern Latin America (Winter terms)
  • HIST 237: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (Winter 2027)
  • HIST 235: Historical Memory in Latin America (Winter 2026)
  • HIST 295T: The Internet as Archive: Digital Approaches to History (Fall 2025)
  • HIST 200-level: The Beautiful Game: Class, Politics, and Soccer in Latin America (Spring 2025)
  • HIST 200-level: Comics in Latin America: The Cold War and Beyond (Spring 2026)
  • HIST 389: Seminar: Educating Otherness (Winter 2025)

Selected Publications

  • “Educating Gender: The Economic and Spiritual Battles Over Land and Mapuche Children in Araucanía, Chile (1897-1922).” Endeavour vol. 48, no. 3 (September 2024)

  • “From ‘Armies of Love’ to Demanding Legal Abortion: Piqueteras and Women Workers at the Forefront of Forging New Feminist Politics in Argentina (1990-2005).” Radical History Review 148 (January 2024)

  • “Land and the Language of Race: State Colonization and the Privatization of Indigenous Lands in Araucanía, Chile (1871-1916).” The Americas vol. 80, no. 1, January 2023

  • “In Chile, Boric’s Win Signals Victory for Social Movements and New Constitution.” The North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA). December 23, 2021

  • “Collective Trauma, Feminism, and the Threads of Popular Power: A Personal and Political Account of Chile’s 2019 Social Awakening.” Radical Americas - Special Issue: Chile’s Popular Unity at 50, June 2021

  • “‘Useful Citizens for the Working Nation:’ Mapuche children, Bavarian Capuchin Friars, and the Vocational Workshops in Making the Modern Rural Economy in the Araucanía, Chile (1896-1920).” Revista de Historia Agraria de América Latina (1), April 2020

  • “An Uprising that Changed Santiago’s Political Landscape.” Online geography journal Society and Space. January 2020

  • “‘Until living becomes worth it:’ Notes from the Chilean Uprising.” The Abusable Past from the Radical History Historical Review. November 1, 2019

Professional Appointments

  • Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University, 2022-
  • Visiting Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College, 2021-2022
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Administración y Economía. Project: The Rise of the Capitalist Agrarian Economy in the Araucania, 1883-1920