Julia Sarreal
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Mail code: 2151Campus: West
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Trained as a historian of Latin America (M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University) with a background in economics (B.A. from Swarthmore College), I have diverse interests in food, drugs, commodities, capitalism, business, and ethnohistory.
My second book, Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation (University of California Press, 2023) is the first to explore the history of this iconic beverage in Argentina from the precolonial period to the present. From yerba mate's Indigenous origins to its ubiquity during the colonial era, from its association with rural people and the poor in the late nineteenth century to its resurgence in the last years of the twentieth century, Yerba Mate documents yerba mate's consumption, production, and cultural importance over time.
My first book, The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History (Stanford University Press, 2014) integrates quantitative and qualitative analysis to expose the daily experiences of the Guaraní Indians residing in Catholic missions during the eighteenth century. Socioeconomic in focus, my work takes a new approach to ethnohistory. It was translated into Spanish and published as Los guaraníes y sus misiones: Una historia socioeconómica (Prometeo Libros, 2018).
My interest in Latin America was sparked when, as an undergraduate, I took a year off from college to live in and volunteer at the Salvation Army homeless shelter in Mexico City. After returning to Swarthmore College and completing a bachelor's degree in economics, I spent two years working in finance with Price Waterhouse LLP in New York City. I then joined the Peace Corps and moved to Curuguaty, Paraguay where I taught at a local university and worked in rural development before going to graduate school.
While conducting research for Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation, I created a personal website about work and life: http://materesearch.weebly.com/.
- Ph.D. History, Harvard University 2009
- A.M. History, Harvard University 2003
- B.A. Economics (Public Policy), Swarthmore College, 1995 (Graduated with Distinction)
- Latin American Studies
- Food
- Drugs
- Commodities
- Capitalism
- Business
- Ethnohistory
Book
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Julia Sarreal. Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation. Berkeley, University of California press, 2023.
- Julia Sarreal. The Guarani and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History. Stanford University Press, 2014.
- Reviewed in: The American Historical Review; The Hispanic American Historical Review; Journal of Latin American Studies; Ethnohistory; Journal of Jesuit Studies; Rey Desnudo: Revista de Libros; and IHS. Antiguos jesuitas en Iberamérica.
- Julia Sarreal. Los guaraníes y sus misiones: Una historia socioeconómica, trans. Thelma Andrea Fernández and Luisa Fernanda Lassaque. Forthcoming, Buenos Aires: Editorial Prometeo, 2018.
Articles
- Julia Sarreal. "The Many Meanings of Yerba Maté: Across Borders, Sharing a Guaraní Drink." ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (Spring 2015): 12-15.
- Sarreal, Julia. "Jesuit Missions and Private Property, Commerce, and Guaraní Economic Initiative.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Ed. William Beezley. New York: Oxford University Press (2015).
- Julia Sarreal. "Caciques as Placeholders in the Guaraní Missions of Eighteenth Century Paraguay." Colonial Latin American Review 23, no. 2 (2014): 224-251.
- Julia Sarreal. "Revisiting Cultivated Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Daily Life in the Guaraní Missions." Ethnohistory 60, no. 1 (2013): 101-124.
- Julia Sarreal. "Disorder, Wild Cattle, and A New Role for the Missions: The Banda Oriental, 1776-1786". The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 67, no. 4 (2011): 517-545.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for research at The Huntington Library (2021).
Scholarship, Research and Creative Activities Grant (ASU) for research in Argentina (2018).
Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellowship for research at The John Carter Brown Library (2017).
Institute for Humanities Research (ASU) Fellowship (2020-21 and 2016-17).
Institute for Humanities Research (ASU) Seed Grant (2014).
Courses
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 590 | Reading and Conference |
HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
LAS 324 | Lat Am Food: Pol,Econ,Cltr,Soc |
HST 324 | Lat Am Food: Pol,Econ,Cltr,Soc |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
LAS 376 | Modern Latin America |
HST 376 | Modern Latin America |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 375 | Colonial Latin America |
HST 375 | Colonial Latin America |
HST 305 | Studies in Latin Amer History |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 376 | Modern Latin America |
LAS 376 | Modern Latin America |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 305 | Studies in Latin Amer History |
MAS 598 | Special Topics |
LAS 441 | Latin America: World Economy |
HST 441 | Latin America: World Economy |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 305 | Studies in Latin Amer History |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
LAS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MAS 598 | Special Topics |
HST 404 | Conquest:Colonial Latin Amer |
HST 375 | Colonial Latin America |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 376 | Modern Latin America |
LAS 205 | Deep Roots: Latin America |
2018 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 375 | Colonial Latin America |