Sep 9, 2020
In this week’s episode we have a very special guest in this 2 part episode!
We are handing off the mic to scholar Melanie Peinado who is going to give us a inside scoop on her PHD dissertation: The Sexual Problem: Sodomy, Sexual Inversion and the Nature of Male Sexuality in Modern Chile, 1900-1960, which investigates the conceptual shift from sodomy to homosexuality in Chilean contemplations of male same-sex desire.
Melanie Peinado is a PhD candidate in Latin American History at the University of California, Davis where she works on the history of science and medicine and gender and sexuality in 20th century Chile. Her dissertation, looks at how doctors and scientists challenged colonial concepts of gender and sexuality in order to establish a modern social order in Chile that was secular and scientific in nature. Outside of her work at UC Davis, Melanie is a researcher at the American Historical Association in Washington DC where she works on research projects that are part of the NEH CARES grant-funded initiative “Confronting a Pandemic: Historians and COVID-19.”
Look out for part two of this episode! For our next episode we will sit down with Melanie for cocktails to discuss her juicy dissertation.
Slide into our DM's @lavalentinapodcast with any questions you'd like us to ask Melanie!