Patricia Harms

B.Th. – (Canadian Mennonite)
B.A. – (University of Manitoba)
M.Div – (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Ph.D. – (Arizona State)

Assistant Professor
Office: Clark Hall 300
Telephone: (204) 727-7495
Email: harmsp@brandonu.ca

I was born and lived in Manitoba my entire childhood. I have lived in Winnipeg, northern and southern Manitoba.

Teaching Interests: Gender and Transnational History.

Research Interests: Latin American History, women’s History, comparative Indigenous history.

Publications:

• “Gott es hiea uck:  Gender and Identity in an Immigrant Family,” in The Journal of Mennonite Studies, 22 (2004).  Which explores the history of one of my great-aunt’s who immigrated to Paraguay. It was a very pivotal and painful moment for my extended Family and it was deeply moving to explore that story and than have it published.
• “God Doesn’t Like the Revolution: The Archbishop, the Market Women and the Economy of Gender, 1944-1954,” Explores the role of poor women in the anti-revolutionary movement in Guatemala.

Courses Taught:

• 36:253 Gender in Transnational Perspective
• 36:296 The Global Experiences of Gender
• 36/54:397 Women in Twentieth-Century Revolutions
• 36/54:398 Women, Gender, and Family in Latin America
• 36/54:371 European Women’s History

Developed for the 2009-2010 calendar year include:

• 36.3XX, “Masculinities and Men”
• 36/54.3XX, “Gender, Race and Empire: Women in the non-western World since 1700”