Professor Lessie Jo Frazier's work focuses on political culture in the Americas. She is particularly interested in the intersection of cultural studies theories of power, subjectivity, and ideology with questions of political economy. She has published on gender, nation-state formation, human rights, mental health policies, memory, poetics, activism, and feminist ethnography. Professor Frazier's teaching includes courses on transnational feminisms; gender, race and the erotics of imperialism; gender and sexuality in the Americas; theories of gender and sexuality; feminist perspectives on warfare and militarism; methodology; and gender and human rights.
Her research on political cultures of the Americas has focused on Chile and Mexico.
Professor Lessie Jo Frazier's work focuses on political culture in the Americas. She is particularly interested in the intersection of cultural studies theories of power, subjectivity, and ideology with questions of political economy. She has published on gender, nation-state formation, human rights, mental health policies, memory, poetics, activism, and feminist ethnography.
Research areas:
- Health and Medicine
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Popular Culture
- Gender and Sexuality
- Critical Ethnic Studies
Research Interests: intersection of cultural studies theories of power, subjectivity, and ideology with questions of political economy
Expertise: Latin America; Political culture; gender and sexuality
Keywords:
- 20th century
- Latin American History
- U.S. History
- Citizenship and Belonging
- Cultural History
- Politics and Constitutional History
Areas: Political cultures (radicalizations, gendering of, erotics/ssexualizations, class/capitalism); nation-state formations (social movements, human rights, prison camps, militarism, democratization); global and transnational studies
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