Globalization and Women's Grassroots Movements in
Latin America – HIS 195
OR
Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective – INS
233
Date: January 4-12, 2008 Faculty: Michael Lansing, Assistant Professor of History
Location: Nicaragua
Application deadline: Oct 1, 2007
Health care, human rights, free trade, natural resource use,
sustainable local economies, and political reform all stand as issues facing
Nicaraguans. Through conversations with Nicaraguan politicians, scholars,
activists, workers, and peasants—coupled with the close study of women’s oral
histories—students will explore the powerful role women played in Nicaragua’s
recent past and how it relates to their experiences today. The course will also
examine how we, as citizens of the United States, affect life in Nicaragua and
what our relationship with this country has to do with our own vocations. This
class fulfills the Humanites LAF requirement as well as the Augsburg Experience
requirement.
Michael Lansing
Michael Lansing teaches modern Latin American and U.S.
history at Augsburg. He earned his Ph.D. in U.S. history and comparative women’s
history at the University of Minnesota (2003). His research focuses on gender
and environmental history in the North American West. Lansing has traveled to
Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Canada, and
Nicaragua.
