Faculty
Jordana Dym
Professor of History 
Jordana Dym's research and teaching interests include Latin America, the history of
cartography, book history, and public history. She teaches a Latin American survey,
regional courses on Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico, and topics courses
on the history of travel and travel writing, war and peace, maps, and publics. Engaging
with written, visual, and aural sources, her classes encourage students to present
findings in papers, newspaper articles, sound stories, websites, and exhibitions.
She offers a first-year seminar on maps in the world and enjoys building international
connections for and with students in travel programs in France, Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala,
and Puerto Rico. She has twice directed 麻豆果冻传媒's Latin American studies minor program,
and was the inaugural director of the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative
() (2014-2018), developing the DocLab, , and Storytellers' Institute.
Jordana's publications include From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central
America, 1759-1839 (2006) and (2021), articles in French, English and Spanish, and an exhibition catalog, Declarando Independencias (Archivo General de la Naci贸n, Mexico, 2010). She has collaborated with colleagues
in the Americas, Europe, and beyond as editor of 惭别蝉辞补尘茅谤颈肠补 (2008-2013), guest editor of special issues for Araucaria and Colonial Latin America Review, and co-edited four books: Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America (with C. Belaubre, 2007), Napol茅on et les Am茅riques (with C. Belaubre and J. Savage, 2009; English edition, 2010), Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader (with K. Offen, 2011); Las declarations de independencia: Los textos fundamentals de las independencias americanas (with A. 脕vila and E. Pani, 2013); Centroam茅rica durante las revoluciones atl谩nticas: el vocabulario pol铆tico, 1750-1850 (with S. Herrera Mena).