Katherine Marino
Katherine Marino
Associate Professor
Email: kmarino@history.ucla.edu
Office: Bunche 5343
Phone: 310-825-4570
Biography
Katherine M. Marino’s research and teaching interests include twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American history; histories of women, gender, sexuality, and race in the Americas; human rights; U.S. empire, and transnational feminism. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Gender & History, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, among other publications.
Her first book, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (UNC Press, 2019), is a history of Pan-American feminism, a movement uniting leaders and groups throughout the Americas over the first half of the twentieth century. The book argues that Latin American and Caribbean activists were at the vanguard of global feminism and human rights. They promoted a “feminismo americano” encompassing women’s political and civil equality, social and economic justice, anti-imperialism, and in the 1930s and 40s, anti-fascism and anti-racism. At the 1945 United Nations conference in San Francisco, this movement helped enshrine women’s rights and human rights in the UN Charter. The book received the Latin American Studies Association Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award for an outstanding book on Latin American foreign policies and international relations, the WAWH Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award for best publication which illustrates the use of a specific set of primary sources, and co-won the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Prize in Transnational Women’s and Gender History from the International Federation for Research on Women’s History. It also received Honorable Mentions for the WAWH Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize for the best monograph in the field of history, and for the Organization of American Historians Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History for the most original book in U.S. women’s and/or gender history (including North America and the Caribbean prior to 1776), and was shortlisted for the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America and for the Hungtington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens’ Shapiro Book Prize for an outstanding first scholarly monograph in American political, social, intellectual, or cultural history. The book is based on her dissertation that won the Organization of American Historians Lerner-Scott Prize for the best dissertation on U.S. women’s history. She also received the 2020 Bertha Lutz Prize from the International Studies Association, awarded to a scholar conducting the highest quality public writing and research on women in diplomacy. Her work has received support from national organizations, including the Mellon Foundation, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences where she was a Visiting Scholar in 2015-2016.
Publications
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
[Spanish translation] Feminismo para América Latina: Un movimiento internacional por los derechos humanos (Grano de Sal, 2021)
“Rosa Rayside and Domestic Workers in the Fight against War and Fascism,” Pacific Historical Review 93, no 3 (Summer 2024): 332-360.
“Learning from LA: How Hospitality Workers Built Power and Changed Politics,” with Jeremy Blasi, Aaron Greenberg, and Zoe Tucker, New Labor Forum, 2023.
“‘For Peace and Freedom:’ Paulina Luisi and Global Anti-Fascist Feminism from Uruguay,” in Uruguay in Transnational Perspective, edited by Pedro Cameselle-Pesce and Debbie Sharnak (London: Routledge, 2023), 179-200.
“Feminism and Activism across Borders: A Roundtable,” with Tiffany N. Florvil and Mona L. Siegel, Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research 48, no. 4 (April 2023): 1-13.
“Inter-American Feminism’s Influence on International Law,” in The Oxford Handbook on International Law and the Americas, edited by Liliana Obregón, Laura Betancur-Restrepo, Juan M. Amaya-Castro, and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
“Felicia Santizo Henríquez: Innovadora de la educación y primera Investigadora del Congo,” in Pioneras de la ciencia en Panamá, edited by Eugenia Rodríguez Blanco, Yolanda Marco Serra, Vannie Arrocha Morán, Patricia Rogers Marciaga (Panamá: Centro Internacional de Estudios Políticos y Sociales CIEPS AIP, 2022), 112-123.
“Rethinking ‘First Wave’ Feminisms: An Introduction” with Susan Ware in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 47, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 811-816.
“New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation” with Tiffany N. Florvil, Kaiama L. Glover, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Robin Mitchell, Jacqueline-Bethel Mogoué, and Samantha Pinto in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 47, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 1013-1040.
“Latin America and the Caribbean,” in The Routledge Global History of Feminism, edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson (New York: Routledge, 2022): 271-285.
“Women’s Anti-Imperialist Political Activism,” in “Empire and Suffrage Syllabus Roundtable” with Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, Lisa Materson, Rebecca Jo Plant, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Women and Social Movements in the United States. 25, no. 1 (September 2021).
“From Women’s Rights to Human Rights: The Influence of Pan-American Feminism on the United Nations,” in Women and the UN: A New History of Women’s International Human Rights, edited by Rebecca Adami and Dan Plesch (New York: Routledge, 2021), 1-16.
“Anti-fascist Feminismo: Suffrage, Sovereignty, and Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism in Panama,” in Engendering Transnational Transgressions: From the Intimate to the Global, edited by Eileen Boris, Sandra Trudgen Dawson, and Barbara Molony, 204-220 (London: Routledge, 2020).
“Interchange: Women’s Suffrage, the Nineteenth Amendment, and the Right to Vote,” with Ellen Carol DuBois, Liette Gidlow, Martha S. Jones, Leila J. Rupp, Lisa Tetrault, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Journal of American History 106, no. 3 (December 2019): 662-694.
“A la vanguardia del feminismo global,” El Presente del Pasado, June 19, 2019. (Spanish translation by Fernando Pérez Montesinos, English version here.)
“The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement,” National Park Service Nineteenth Amendment Centennial Commemoration Project, U.S. National Park Service website, April 2019. (Republished in modified form in Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective 13, no. 7, April 2020 and in Marjorie Spruill, ed., One Woman One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement, second edition (New York: NewSage Press, 2021).
“Anita Hill Roundtable,” Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies 35, no. 3 (December, 2014): 65-74. (a published forum with Sierra Austin, Giselle Jeter, Margaret Solic, and Haley Swenson)
“Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism, and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women’s Rights in the 1930s,” Gender & History 26, no. 3 (November 2014): 642-660.
“Transnational Pan-American Feminism: The Friendship of Bertha Lutz and Mary Wilhelmine Williams, 1926-1944,” Journal of Women’s History 26, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 63-87. (Republished in Stephanie Narrow, Kim Cary Warren, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, and Vicki L. Ruiz, eds., Unequal Sisters: A Revolutionary Reader in U.S. Women’s History, 5th edition (New York: Taylor & Francis: 2022).)
“El movimiento feminista en la Zona del Canal,” La Prensa (Panama City, Panama), August 17, 2014
Awards & Grants
Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2020
Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award, Western Association of Women Historians, 2020
Co-winner, Ida Blom-Karen Offen Prize in Transnational Women’s and Gender History, International Federation for Research in Women’s History, 2020 (with Jocelyn Olcott’s International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Honorable Mention, Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians, 2020
Honorable Mention, Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians, 2020
Bertha Lutz Prize, International Studies Association, 2020
Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize, Western Association of Women Historians, 2015 (for “Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism, and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women’s Rights in the 1930s,” Gender & History 26, no. 3 (November 2014): 642-660.)
Lerner Scott Dissertation Prize, Organization of American Historians, 2014
