Posted on Jan 28, 2005

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.