Amanda Waterhouse
Assistant Professor of History
Amanda Waterhouse researches and teaches on the political history of Latin America and the Caribbean. She focuses on state policies and urban politics, particularly through histories of design, protest, and revolution. She has worked as a history consultant and academic journal editor and taught at Indiana University and Butler University before joining the faculty at Stetson University in 2024.
- PhD, History, Indiana University (2022)
- MA, History, Indiana University (2017)
- BA, History; Hispanic Studies, Vassar College (2010)
Biography
Amanda C. Waterhouse, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stetson University, where she teaches courses in Latin American and global history. She earned her PhD and MA in History from Indiana University and holds a BA in History and Hispanic Studies from Vassar College. Born and raised in Oakland, California, she has lived and worked across the United States and Latin America. Most recently, she taught courses in Latin American and global history at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has published recent articles on Colombian urban and protest history, including articles examining the 2019-2020 national strike, which she witnessed as a Fulbright-Hays scholar in Bogota. Her current book project, Designing Development: Colombia and the Architecture of Cold War Orders, is under advance contract with Columbia University Press.
More About Amanda Waterhouse
Areas of Expertise
- Colombia
- Latin American & Caribbean History
- Global History
- International Development
Course Sampling
- Early World Civilizations
- Latin American History: Ancient and Colonial Empires
- Latin American History: The Challenges of Modern Nationhood
- The Mexican and Cuban Revolutions
- Latin American politics
- Colombian cities
- History of architecture, urban planning, design
- Global Cold War
Books
- Designing Development: Colombia and the Architecture of Cold War Orders (under advance contract, Columbia University Press).
Food & Prosperity: Balancing Technology and Community in Agriculture (New York: Rockefeller Foundation, 2013).
Articles
- Protesting Architects: Development and Dissent at Colombias University of Valle, Diplomatic History 48, no. 1 (Jan. 2024): 4876.
- A Celestial Doctrine: James Turrell, Art, & Technology in Cold War Los Angeles, Journal of American Studies 56, no. 5 (Dec. 2022): 729754.
Bogot Utopic: Urban Planning & Public Order in the Building of Colombia, 194853, Comparativ 30, no. 1/2 (2020): 87110.
Online Publications
- La esperanza de America Latina: The Ongoing Student Revolution in Colombia, Age of Revolutions, Oct. 26, 2020
- Colombia's National Protests Show that Infrastructure, Too, is Politics, NACLA, Dec. 3, 2019