Prof. Meade elected officer of history association

Teresa Meade, professor of history, has been elected to the executive committee of the Conference of Latin American Historians (CLAH), an affiliate of the American Historical Association. She will serve as an officer of the CLAH-AHA committee through 2007. Also, she has published an essay, "Holding the Junta Accountable: Chile's Sitios de Memoria and the History of Torture, Disappearance and Death," in Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space, Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004). In the chapter, Meade describes former torture centers, cemeteries and gravesites in Santiago, Chile, that have been transformed into national monuments to remember victims of the Augusto Pinochet military dictatorship from 1973-90.