Karen Racine

Campus: Guelph
Office: 2001 MacKinnon Extension
Email: kracine@uoguelph.ca

Areas of Research for Graduate Supervision

  • Latin American history
  • Atlantic World 1750-1850
  • travel, exile, national identity, patriotism, liberation

Current Research

Most of my work centers on the history and culture of the revolutionary
independence period throughout Latin America and the Atlantic World. I am
interested in issues of cross-cultural contact, national identity formation,
and the creation of patriotic civic cultures from 1780-1830. Currently, I am
completing a book on Spanish America independence leaders who lived in London
between 1808-1829. This project traces the effect of extended foreign
residence on the Spanish Americans’ sense of national identity, and also
documents the tremendous intellectual and cultural influence that Great
Britain exerted upon these men’s vision of post-independent nationhood.

Selected Publications

  • Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution 1750-1816.
    Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002.
  • Co-editor, with Ingrid E. Fey (UCLA). Strange Pilgrimages: Travel, Exile, and
    National Identity in Latin America 1800-1990s    . Wilmington DE: Scholarly
    Resources, 2000.
  • “Monitors and Moralists: James Thomson, Education Reform and Cultural Change
    in Spanish America 1810-1825″ in Connecting Continents: Britain and Latin
    America 1780-1900    , (Robert Aguirre and Ross Forman, eds.) Amsterdam: Rodopi,
    forthcoming.
  • “Anahuac’s Angry Apostle: Fray Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra (1765-
    1827)” in The Human Tradition in Mexico, (Jeffrey M. Pilcher, ed.) Wilmington
    DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002.
  • “X-Ray of the Republic: Venezuelan General Francisco de Miranda Views Boston
    Life (1783-1784)” in Wasafiri: British Journal of Travel and Cultural Studies
    34 (Fall 2001): 29-34.
  • “A Community of Purpose: British Cultural Influence During the Spanish
    American Wars of Independence (1815-1823)” in English Speaking Communities in
    Latin America    , (Oliver Marshall, ed.) London: ILAS/ St.Martin’s, 2000.
  • “Britannia’s Bold Brother: British Cultural Influence in Haiti During the
    Reign of Henry Christophe (1811-1820)” Journal of Caribbean History 30 (October 1999): 125-145.
  • “Alberto Masferrer and the Vital Minimum: The Life and Thought of a Salvadoran
    Journalist (1868-1932)” The Americas 54:2(October 1997): 209-237.