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About Bethany Wade

Bethany Wade, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of History in the College of Arts & Sciences at Sacred Heart University. Dr. Wade received her Ph.D. in Latin American and Caribbean History from the University of Pittsburgh after earning a B.A. in Cultural Studies and an M.A. in Latin American and Iberian Studies from UBC. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Bethany has several peer reviewed publications on public health, burial, and pandemics in the 19th-century Caribbean. She engages Digital and Public Humanities in her research and classrooms and has a background teaching World History. Along with several sections of the Western Civilization survey, Bethany will teach an elective course on Latin America which will explore how material resources and material culture have shaped the region in the post-independence period.

Positions

August 2022 - Present Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University ‐ History, College of Arts and Sciences
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2020 - 2022 Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
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2014 - 2020 Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
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Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2015 - 2015 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant
University of Pittsburgh
2015 - 2015 CLAS Field Research
University of Pittsburgh
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Honors and Awards

  • Teaching Fellow- University of Pittsburgh
  • University of British Columbia Graduate Fellowship

Education

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2014 - 2020 Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh ‐ History
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2014 M.A. Latin & Iberian Studies, University of British Columbia
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2009 - 2012 B.A. Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis, University of British Columbia
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Contact Information

College of Arts & Sciences
History Department
Martire Center BUCM*W329
203-371-7770

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Presentations (2)

Theses & Dissertations (2)