Chavez, Meghann

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PhD Student

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Education: : M.A. Florida International University, Public History. B.A. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, History and Economics

Area and Thematic Fields/Interests

Modern Latin America; politics and economy; gender; Cold War. My dissertation looks at the development of beauty salons in Chile between 1959 and 1998 – the women who owned them, the women who worked there, and the women they served – in order to explore the ways in which changes in political and economic structures affected small businesses, female labor, and the national economy.

Estudio los salones de belleza en Chile entre los años 1959 y 1998 – las dueñas, las trabajadoras, y las clientas – para explorar cómo los cambios económicos y políticos afectaron a las pequeñas empresas, el trabajo de las mujeres y la economía nacional.