Rebekah Pite, Ph.D.
Division of Humanities
History
Education
Ph.D., History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
M.A., History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
B.A., Political Science and English, Amherst College
Research Interests
- Argentina and the Southern Cone, 19th-20th c.
- Social and Cultural Histories of Everyday Life in Latin America
- Intersectional Women's and Gender History
- Interdisciplinary Food Studies
- Community and Identity Formation
Publications and Media Placements
Books
Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023).
La mesa est谩 servida. Do帽a Petrona C. de Gandulfo y la domesticidad en la Argentina
del siglo XX (Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2016).
Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Do帽a Petrona, Women, and Food (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters
"La china cebadora: g茅nero, mate e identidades nacionales en el R铆o de la Plata, 1869-1929,"
Indicios (Buenos Aires), no. 1 (Dec. 2022): 24-48.
Rebekah E. Pite and Ana Ram铆rez Luhrs, "Digital Resources: Latin American Food and
Food History," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (June 2020): DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.893.
"The Rural Woman Enters the Frame: A Visual History of Gender, Nation, and the Goodbye
Mate in the Post-Colonial R铆o de la Plata," Journal of Social History 54, no. 4 (Summer 2021): 1120-1159. *Winner of the Harold Eugene Davis Prize from
the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American History
In茅s Dunstan and Rebekah E. Pite, "Mistress vs. Maid: Race, Class, Nation, and Boundaries
Between Women in Argentine Fiction Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century," Gender & History 30, no. 2 (2018): 401-422.
"La Cocina Criolla: A History of Food and Race in Twentieth-Century Argentina," in
Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina, ed. Paulina Alberto and Eduardo Elena (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016),
99-125.