Rebekah Pite

WGS 262: Women, Gender and Work in the Americas

Social and Cultural History; Latin America and the Caribbean; Argentina; Uruguay; Paraguay; Rio de la Plata; southern South America; women and gender; food and drink; domestic labor; visual culture; oral history.

Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023). *Winner of Southern Cone Studies Section Social Sciences Book Prize, Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, and three U.S.-based Gourmand Book Prizes*

Inés Pérez and Rebekah E. Pite, “¿Un salto al Paraíso? Consumo y trabajo doméstico, 1928-1959,” in Historia de las Mujeres en Argentina, ed. Débora D’ Antonio and Valeria Pita (Buenos Aires: Promoteo, 2023).

“La china cebadora: género, mate e identidades nacionales en el Río de la Plata, 1869-1929,” Indicios (Buenos Aires), no. 1 (Dec. 2022): 24-48.

“The Rural Woman Enters the Frame: A Visual History of Gender, Nation and the Goodbye Mate in the Post Colonial Rio de la Plata,” Journal of Social History 54, no. 4 (Summer 2021): 1120-1159.

Rebekah E. Pite and Ana Ramirez Luhrs, “Digital Resources: Latin American Food and Food History,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (June 2020): DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.893.

La mesa está servida. Doña Petrona C. de Gandulfo y la domesticidad de la Argentina del siglo XX (Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2016).

Inés Dunstan and Rebekah E. Pite, “Mistress vs. Maid: Race, Class, Nation, and Boundaries Between Women in Argentine Fiction Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Gender & History 30, no. 2 (2018): 401-422.

“La Cocina Criolla: A History of Food and Race in Twentieth-Century Argentina,” in Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina, ed. Paulina Alberto and Eduardo Elena (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 99-125.

“Engendering Argentine History: A Historiographical Review of Recent Gender-Based Histories of Women during the National Period,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 25, no. 2 (2014): 41-62.

Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Doña Petrona, Women & Food (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

“Entertaining inequalities: Doña Petrona, Juanita Bordoy, and Domestic Work in mid-20th century Argentina,” Hispanic American Historical Review 91, no. 1 (Feb 2011): 97-128.

Southern Cone Studies Section Social Sciences Book Award Prize, Latin American Studies Association, 2024; Arthur P. Whitaker Prize from Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) for “best book published in previous two years by a MACLAS member,” 2024; Gourmand World Cookbook Prize for best book of 2023 published in the United States in the following categories: “Alcohol Free drinks,” “Digital,” and “Latin America published outside of Latin America;” Elected to the Hispanic American Historical Review Editorial Board, 2023; Elected Subsection Teaching and Teaching Materials Section Secretary for Conference on Latin American Studies, 2024-2026.

Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award, 2017; U.S. Fulbright Scholar Grant, 2016; Southern Cone Studies Section Social Sciences Book Award Prize, 2014; Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Lecture Award, Lafayette College, 2014; Gourmand Prize for the Best Latin American Cuisine Book published in the United States, 2013; R.K. Mellon Summer Research Fellowships, Lafayette College, Summers 2011, 2014, 2021; Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Argentina, U.S. Department of Education, 2003-2004.