Lorraine Bayard De Volo

  Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Associate Professor
  Office: Hazel Gates Woodruff Cottage 207
  Telephone: 303-492-1170
   E-mail: LBDV@Colorado.edu

   Curriculum Vitae

Lorraine Bayard de Volo (PhD in Political Science, Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, 1996) joined the faculty at CU Boulder in 2006.  She was also on the faculty in Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Kansas 1998-2006.  

Areas of Interest:  Gender as it interacts with and informs war, revolution, political violence, and social movements.  Her regional area of specialization is Latin America, and she has done fieldwork in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico (Chiapas), and most particularly Nicaragua. 
She is the author of Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-1999 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) as well as articles in journals including Comparative Politics, Gender & Society, Social Politics, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Mobilizations, and PS: Political Science and Politics.  

Current Research: Based upon grants she received from the National Science Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace, she is currently working on a comparative research project on women, war, and peace processes in Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua.  Her first planned major publication out of this research will be a book on gender and the Cuban revolution. 

For more information, see Professor Bayard de Volo’s CV.

“Women and War in Latin America, 1950-2000,” History Compass. Forthcoming 2009

“Participant-observation, Politics, and Power Relations: Nicaraguan Mothers and U.S. Casino Waitresses” in Political Ethnography, edited by Ed Schatz, University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming 2009

“The Dynamics of Emotion and Activism: Grief, Gender, and Collective Identity in Revolutionary Nicaragua,” Mobilization 11:3 (2006).

“The Nonmaterial Long-Term Benefits of Collective Action: Empowerment and Social Capital in a Nicaraguan Women’s Organization,” Comparative Politics 38:2 (2006), 149-167.

“Mobilizing Mothers for War: Cross-National Framing Strategies in Nicaragua’s Contra War,” Gender & Society 18:6 (2004), 715-734.

“From the Inside Out: Ethnographic Methods in Political Research” (co-authored with Edward Schatz), PS: Political Science and Politics (April 2004), 267-271.

WMST 2600            Gender, Race & Class in a Global Context
WMST 5290            Grad Topics