Kathryn Evans
Graduate Student
History
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact
Building & Room:
UH 1014
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About
Katy Evans has been a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern Latin American history working with Joaquín Chávez since 2018. Her project covers the creation, perception, and experience of gendered roles during the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution through to the end of Sandinista political power in 1990 via democratic election.
Courses taught:
HIST 104 (instructor)
HIST/LALS 262 (instructor)
Teaching assistantships at UIC:
HIST 262: Modern Latin American History
HIST 106: Western Civilization since 1400
HIST 105: Global Transformations and the Rise of the West Since 1000
HIST 103: United States History to 1865
HIST 104: United States History since 1865
Selected Publications
Review of Nemser, Daniel. Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017. Spring 2018, The Coordinating Council of Women in History
Education
2018 Master of Arts in History, Ball State University
2016 Bachelor of Arts in History and English Literature, Saint Mary’s College
Exam fields:
Modern Latin America
Modern Central America
The Global Cold War
Selected Presentations
“’El hombre hace valer a la mujer:’ The Perception of Women and Their Participation in the Sandinista Revolution” (February 2023) 26th Annual Ball State University Student History Conference.
“Between the Cross and the Rifle: The Religious and Revolutionary Influence on Gender in Midcentury Nicaragua” (February 2023) 19th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference.
“No Revolution without Women’s Emancipation; No Emancipation without Revolution:” A Window into the Nicaraguan Women’s Movement, 1970-1990" (February 2022) 25th Annual Ball State University Student History Conference.
“’To Serve and Not Be Served:’ The Second Vatican Council and Education in Central America, 1962-1980” (February 2021) 17th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference.
“Construyendo la Mujer Nueva: The Image and Reality of the Revolutionary ‘New Woman’” (February 2019) 22nd Annual Ball State University Student History Conference
Research Currently in Progress
Research Interests:
Modern Latin America, Nicaraguan history, gender history, the Global Cold War