Context14 Mar 2024

Cultivating the Spirit of the Masses: How the Buenos Aires Zoo Shaped Society in Argentina

Johanna is joined by Dr. Ashley Kerr to learn about how the Buenos Aires Zoo was used to shape the debates around immigration, women’s rights, and labor unions in Argentina in the early 20th century.

Ashley Kerr is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. As an undergraduate, Kerr spent a year living in Chile. After graduation she taught English in Argentine Patagonia as a Fulbright English teaching assistant. She has also taught abroad in Valencia, Spain; Montevideo, Uruguay; and sailed around the Atlantic as a faculty member on Semester at Sea. At the University of Idaho, she teaches upper-level courses on Latin American culture, literature and film. Her research focuses on race and gender in Argentina and Uruguay in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Her first book, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910), was named the 2020 Best Book by the Nineteenth Century Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association.

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