Senior Lecturer, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Jo’s research interests include Chilean cultural history, nationalism and nation building, and indigenous Mapuche history, intellectuality and politics. Her new research project investigates the production and circulation of ideas about race and indigenous cultures in twentieth-century Latin America, focusing specifically on Chilean-Peruvian collaborations and exchanges. She has a monograph on this subject forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, entitled Itinerant Ideas: Race, Indigeneity, and Cross-Border Encounters in Latin America.
Jo is also co-leading a digital public history project with Dr Allison Ramay at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. This has brought together Mapuche education specialists, teachers, the Ministry of Education in Chile, museum practitioners, creative technologists and graphic designers to create an educational toolkit, that makes visible and accessible the complex social worlds of some of the most prominent Mapuche political activists of the early twentieth century. The toolkit includes an interactive website in English and Spanish, which is currently being updated.
Recent publications:
- Crow, J, 2019, ‘Photographic Encounters: Martín Chambi, Indigeneity and Chile-Peru Relations in the Early Twentieth Century’. Journal of Latin American Studies 51: 1, pp. 31-58
- Crow, J & Ramay, A, 2018, ‘Utilizando herramientas digitales para abrir nuevas perspectivas sobre la historia del quehacer político mapuche’. Revista de Antropologías del Sur, vol 5., pp. 187-200
- Crow, J & Ossa Santa Cruz, JL, 2018, ‘¿’Indios seducidos’?: Participación politico-militar de los mapuche durante la Restauración de Fernando VII. Chile, 1814-1825’. Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar, vol 7., pp. 39-58
- Crow, J, 2018, ‘Pensamiento político mapuche: Tensiones en torno a los conceptos de ‘estado’ y ‘nación’, siglos XIX y XX’. in: Susana Gazmuri, Ivan Jaksic (eds) Historia Politica de Chile 1810-2010. Fondo de Cultura Económica: Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, pp. 251