Heather Vrana
Biographic Data
| ID | 521312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Vrana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Vrana |
| SIGNATURE | VRANA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Histories of Disability in Latin America
Health in the Highlands
While some of the world's population isolated to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, others were unable or unwilling to do so. Governments and international bodies made mercurial recommendations and sometimes laid down harsh mandates that were out of step with people's conditions of life. Only the most guileful would fail to acknowledge how race, ethnicity, class, region, age, sexuality, and gender shaped how one lived through or died with COVID. Th…
Diane M. Nelson (1963–2022)
Diane M. Nelson was surrounded by her family when she died in her home in Carrboro, North Carolina, USA. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the end of January and died on April 27, 2022. Yet she remains presente among us, held close by an astounding range of comrades, friends, kin, teachers, students, and colleagues who admire her. Her life was celebrated in public ceremonies at the Carrboro Town Commons on June 12, 2022, and in Guatemal…
All the love
During El Salvador’s civil war, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) developed infrastructure and expertise to improve medical attention for combatants and rural and poor Salvadorans alike. This expansive popular health system included Salvadoran nurses, foreign physicians and community health promotors. However, hundreds of wounded combatants required more intensive rehabilitation. This article discusses the FMLN’s approach to yo…
Endemic Goiter and El Salvador’s Battle Against Cretinismo
One concern for Salvadoran and other Latin American public health researchers across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the purported link between goiter (bocio) and cretinism (cretinismo). Goiter is empirical medical condition that is inseparable from scenes of social and political inequality, neocolonialism, development, and war, however effectively the tools that measured it often obfuscated these factors. This article draws on more th…
On Our Own Terms
Journal Article On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala. By Sarah Foss Get access On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala. By Sarah Foss (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 334 pp. $29.95). Heather Vrana Heather Vrana University of Florida [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, shad021, https://do…
The Precious Seed of Christian Virtue
This article addresses the role of disability and disabled people in the construction of citizenship and nation through the ideologies and practices of charity from the 1870s through the 1940s. These periods of Guatemalan history are generally thought of as distinct: the Liberal triumph over Conservatives, Liberal dictatorship, and democratic revolution. To the contrary, practices of charity reveal the continuity of these political forms. This ar…
Iván Molina Jiménez and David Díaz Arias, editors. La inolvidable edad
Last year’s semicentennial of 1968 occasioned dozens of books, conferences, and films on youth and youth culture. On the whole, these texts and events highlighted a narrow range of themes, including class, politicization, militancy, repression, counterculture, and transnational networks. What, then, could an edited volume on Costa Rican youth contribute to this supersaturated conversation? Quite a lot, it turns out. For one, the notorious excepti…
Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983
Collects more than sixty foundational documents from student protest from the frontlines of revolutionFew people know that student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the infamous student movements of Western Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university students authored colonial agendas and anti-colonial critiques. In fact, Central American students were key actors in shaping ideas of nati…
Our ongoing fight for justice
After the abrogation of the guilty verdict against Efrain Ríos Montt, young people from the group Sons and Daughters of the Disappeared (H.I.J.O.S.) issued the following statement: ‘More than a failure, this can breathe life into our ongoing fight for justice’. While this affirmation seems at first eccentric, or incidental, this article demonstrates how H.I.J.O.S.’s claim situates the Ríos Montt verdict within a longer history of justice and geno…
The Guatemala Reader
Book Review| January 01 2016 The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Grandin, Greg, Levenson, Deborah T., and Oglesby, Elizabeth. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. $99.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.) Heather Vrana Heather Vrana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 201–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3135610 Views Icon View…
"Revolutionary Transubstantiation in "The Republic of Students
Escalation of state violence against Guatemala City's University of San Carlos (USAC) in the late 1970s compelled students to rework the politics of death. In this essay, the commemorative texts and funeral photographs of three student leaders - Mario López Larrave, Oliverio Castañeda de León, and Robin Garcia - demonstrate that political funerals acted as moments of revolutionary transubstantiation. The transubstantive funerals permitted an indi…
Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983
Collects more than sixty foundational documents from student protest from the frontlines of revolutionFew people know that student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the infamous student movements of Western Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university students authored colonial agendas and anti-colonial critiques. In fact, Central American students were key actors in shaping ideas of nati…
All the love
During El Salvador’s civil war, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) developed infrastructure and expertise to improve medical attention for combatants and rural and poor Salvadorans alike. This expansive popular health system included Salvadoran nurses, foreign physicians and community health promotors. However, hundreds of wounded combatants required more intensive rehabilitation. This article discusses the FMLN’s approach to yo…
Endemic Goiter and El Salvador’s Battle Against Cretinismo
One concern for Salvadoran and other Latin American public health researchers across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the purported link between goiter (bocio) and cretinism (cretinismo). Goiter is empirical medical condition that is inseparable from scenes of social and political inequality, neocolonialism, development, and war, however effectively the tools that measured it often obfuscated these factors. This article draws on more th…
The Precious Seed of Christian Virtue
This article addresses the role of disability and disabled people in the construction of citizenship and nation through the ideologies and practices of charity from the 1870s through the 1940s. These periods of Guatemalan history are generally thought of as distinct: the Liberal triumph over Conservatives, Liberal dictatorship, and democratic revolution. To the contrary, practices of charity reveal the continuity of these political forms. This ar…
"Revolutionary Transubstantiation in "The Republic of Students
Escalation of state violence against Guatemala City's University of San Carlos (USAC) in the late 1970s compelled students to rework the politics of death. In this essay, the commemorative texts and funeral photographs of three student leaders - Mario López Larrave, Oliverio Castañeda de León, and Robin Garcia - demonstrate that political funerals acted as moments of revolutionary transubstantiation. The transubstantive funerals permitted an indi…
Our ongoing fight for justice
After the abrogation of the guilty verdict against Efrain Ríos Montt, young people from the group Sons and Daughters of the Disappeared (H.I.J.O.S.) issued the following statement: ‘More than a failure, this can breathe life into our ongoing fight for justice’. While this affirmation seems at first eccentric, or incidental, this article demonstrates how H.I.J.O.S.’s claim situates the Ríos Montt verdict within a longer history of justice and geno…
The Guatemala Reader
Book Review| January 01 2016 The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Grandin, Greg, Levenson, Deborah T., and Oglesby, Elizabeth. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. $99.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.) Heather Vrana Heather Vrana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 201–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3135610 Views Icon View…
Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983
Collects more than sixty foundational documents from student protest from the frontlines of revolutionFew people know that student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the infamous student movements of Western Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university students authored colonial agendas and anti-colonial critiques. In fact, Central American students were key actors in shaping ideas of nati…
Iván Molina Jiménez and David Díaz Arias, editors. La inolvidable edad
Last year’s semicentennial of 1968 occasioned dozens of books, conferences, and films on youth and youth culture. On the whole, these texts and events highlighted a narrow range of themes, including class, politicization, militancy, repression, counterculture, and transnational networks. What, then, could an edited volume on Costa Rican youth contribute to this supersaturated conversation? Quite a lot, it turns out. For one, the notorious excepti…
The Precious Seed of Christian Virtue
This article addresses the role of disability and disabled people in the construction of citizenship and nation through the ideologies and practices of charity from the 1870s through the 1940s. These periods of Guatemalan history are generally thought of as distinct: the Liberal triumph over Conservatives, Liberal dictatorship, and democratic revolution. To the contrary, practices of charity reveal the continuity of these political forms. This ar…
Diane M. Nelson (1963–2022)
Diane M. Nelson was surrounded by her family when she died in her home in Carrboro, North Carolina, USA. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the end of January and died on April 27, 2022. Yet she remains presente among us, held close by an astounding range of comrades, friends, kin, teachers, students, and colleagues who admire her. Her life was celebrated in public ceremonies at the Carrboro Town Commons on June 12, 2022, and in Guatemal…
All the love
During El Salvador’s civil war, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) developed infrastructure and expertise to improve medical attention for combatants and rural and poor Salvadorans alike. This expansive popular health system included Salvadoran nurses, foreign physicians and community health promotors. However, hundreds of wounded combatants required more intensive rehabilitation. This article discusses the FMLN’s approach to yo…
Endemic Goiter and El Salvador’s Battle Against Cretinismo
One concern for Salvadoran and other Latin American public health researchers across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the purported link between goiter (bocio) and cretinism (cretinismo). Goiter is empirical medical condition that is inseparable from scenes of social and political inequality, neocolonialism, development, and war, however effectively the tools that measured it often obfuscated these factors. This article draws on more th…
On Our Own Terms
Journal Article On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala. By Sarah Foss Get access On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala. By Sarah Foss (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 334 pp. $29.95). Heather Vrana Heather Vrana University of Florida [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, shad021, https://do…
Health in the Highlands
While some of the world's population isolated to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, others were unable or unwilling to do so. Governments and international bodies made mercurial recommendations and sometimes laid down harsh mandates that were out of step with people's conditions of life. Only the most guileful would fail to acknowledge how race, ethnicity, class, region, age, sexuality, and gender shaped how one lived through or died with COVID. Th…
New Histories of Disability in Latin America
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