PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
MA University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990
AB Dartmouth College, 1986

Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, 2018-
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park 2008-2018
Associate Professor, Syracuse University, 2002-2008
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, 1996-2002

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt is a historian of twentieth-century Latin America. She is interested in the transnational study of gender, race, ethnicity, and class and their relation to policymaking. She is the principal investigator for a five-year National Science Foundation grant aimed at promoting and coordinating research on the histories of science, technology, environment, medicine, and other knowledge practices in Latin America and the Caribbean. The project led to the creation of RECSLAC.

Rosemblatt’s most recent book is The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States. In this book, she traces the history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, revealing intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Her first book Gendered Compromisesexamined how feminists, socialists, labor activists, social workers, physicians, and political leaders converged around a shared gender ideology and how that ideology shaped labor, health, and welfare policies.

Rosemblatt has served on the Board of Editors of Historia Crítica (2023- ), History of the Social Sciences (2022- ), and the Palgrave Macmillan SeriesNew Directions in Welfare History (2021-), and the Journal of Women’s History. She has held fellowships from Fulbright and the National Endowment for Humanities and been a fellow at New York University and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Scholar Award for her work on race.

Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Appelbaum, Nancy, Anne Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, eds. Race and Nation in Modern Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Godoy, Lorena, Elizabeth Hutchison, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, and M. Soledad Zárate, eds. Disciplina y desacato: Construcción de identidad en Chile, siglos XIX y XX. Santiago: SUR/CEDEM, 1995.

Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. “Bodies, Environments, and Race: Roots and Branches of Eugenic Nationalism in the Long Twentieth Century” in Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine, Ana Barahona, ed. (Cham: Springer, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48616-7_31-1
Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. “Modernization, Dependency, and the Global in Mexican Critiques of Anthropology, 1945-1970,” Journal of Global History 9, no. 1 (March 2014): 94-121.
Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. “Welfare States, Neoliberal Regimes, and International Political Economy: The Gender Politics of Latin America in Global Context,” Journal of Women’s History 25, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 149-62.
Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. “Other Americas: Transnationalism, the Culture of Poverty, and the Politics of Scholarship in Mexico and the United States.” Hispanic American Historical Review 89, no. 4 (November 2009): 603-41. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-047