Yovanna Pineda, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor
E-mail

• 407-823-2225
• Office Hours: Spring 2013: Tuesdays 3:00-5:00pm
• Campus Location: CNH551
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Education

• Ph.D. from University of California Los Angeles (2002)

Research Interests

History of Argentina and South America (19th and 20th centuries), environment and technology history, economic history

Recent Research Activities

Yovanna Pineda is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Central Florida.  She specializes in the social, economic, and environmental history of Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Her first book Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy, 1890-1930 (Stanford, 2009) analyzed Argentina’s first phase of modern industrialization from 1890-1930, with an emphasis on the key roles played by the economic elite and policymakers in developing the industry that they envisioned politically essential for the country’s progress.  Currently, she is working on a book-length manuscript tentatively entitled “Plowing toward Modernity:  Agricultural Landscape, Technology, and Environment in Argentina, 1880-1940.” In the book, she analyzes state-sponsored research programs for the development of agriculture. Specifically, she examines technology transfer of machinery, agricultural science, meteorology and water management. A primary goal of the book is to show the transnational influence in developing Argentina’s Pampas grasslands into an international breadbasket over a sixty-year period. She gratefully acknowledges research support from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Central Florida.

Selected Publications

Books

• Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy: The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890-1930, Stanford University Press, 2009

Articles/Essays

• “Financing Manufacturing Innovation in Argentina, 1890-1930,” Business History Review, Vol. 83 (Autumn 2009), 539-562
• “Manufacturing Profits and Strategies in Argentine Industrial Development, 1904-1930,” Business History, Vol. 49, no. 2 (March 2007), 186-210
• “Sources of Finance and Reputation: Merchant Finance Groups in Argentine Industrialization, 1890-1930,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 41, no. 2 (June 2006), 3-30

Awards

2008-2013:

• 2013, Pauley Endowment Travel Award, History Department, University of Central Florida 
• 2012, Research Incentive and Development, Type 1 Award, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Central Florida
• 2011-2012, In-House Research Grants, Office of Research and Commercialization, University of Central Florida
• Summer 2011, Library Fellow Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
• Spring 2011, Equipment and Software Support Grant for Research, Center for the Humanities and Digital Research, University of Central Florida
• 2009-2010, Santander Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
• Summer 2008, Summer Visiting Library Scholars Fellowship, University of Illinois-University of Chicago Consortium on Latin American Studies

Courses

Updated: Mar 24, 2013