Teresa Prados-Torreira

Teresa Prados-Torreira, Ph.D. is Professor of History and Cultural Studies. She received her B.A. in History from the Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Intellectual History from the University of Missouri at Columbia. She has taught at Columbia College since 1990. He classes include: Cartoons and Satire in American History, Women in U.S. History, Family and Community History and Introduction to Cultural Studies. She is the creator and organizer of the annual Paula Pfeffer and Cheryl Johnson-Odim Political Cartoon Contest for Columbia College students. Currently, she is the Women and Gender Studies Minor Director. Her areas of study are the United States and Cuba. Her research interests include women’s history, cultural history and political satire. She is the author of Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth Century Cuba (University Press of Florida, Fall 2005.)

Other Publications:
"Adios Hemingway" Introduction and translation. Raritan, A Quarterly Review. (Fall 2004): 159-167.

"Cubans Divided" In These Times (April 3, 2000):19

With Barbara Iverson, “Liberal Ed meets High Tech: Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Improve Instruction” in Creative Interactive Teaching. Case Method and Other Techniques . Hans E.Klein ed. Omni Press, Madison , WI , 2000.

"Desatando las Alas: La Mujer Cubana en las Guerras de Independencia" Revista Santiago, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba (Mayo-Septiembre, 1998): 249-275.

With Barbara Iverson, “Integrating Digital Technology into Classrooms: The Making of Warp & Weft, Might & Magic, Mettle & Motherhood: An Electronic Exploration of American Women's History: 1600 to 1870s.” Sigraph 98. Conference Abstracts and Applications. Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series. New York , 1998.

"Women and the Spanish-American War" in Understanding the Past. Cultural Resource Management, U.S. Department of Interior. (Vol. 21, No.11, 1998): 30-31

"Chicago , de la Pasion a la Apatia." El Pais (Agosto 27, 1996): 4

"Canada , Hoy." Historia 16 Cuadernos de Historia Actual 34 (Abril, 1994)

"La Infanta Eulalia de Borbon en la Exposicion Universal de Chicago." Historia 16, 202 (Febrero, 1993): 26-34.