Teresa A. Meade (born 1948) is an American historian. A specialist inLatin American history, she was Professor of History and Culture atUnion College inSchenectady, New York.

Teresa Ann Meade was born inIowa in 1948.^[1] She graduated with a B.A. in history from theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972. She gained her PhD fromRutgers University in 1984,^[2] with a thesis oncommunity protest inRio de Janeiro between 1890 and 1917.^[3]

Meade taught at Union College for many years. In 2000-2001 she was aFulbright Lecturer inTokyo.^[4] She became Professor of History and Culture, remaining at Union College until her retirement in 2020.^[when?]

She is a member of theRadical History Review editorial collective,^[5] and has been president of the board of trustees of theJournal of Women's History.^[6]

• (ed. with Mark Walker)Science, Medicine and Cultural Imperialism. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
• "Civilizing" Rio : reform and resistance in a Brazilian city, 1889-1930. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.ISBN 978-0271028705.
• (ed. withMerry E. Wiesner-Hanks)A companion to global gender history. Blackwell, 2004.ISBN 0-631-22393-2 Second ed., 2020.
• A brief history of Brazil. 2004.ISBN 9780816077885
• A history of Latin America: 1800 to the Present. Chichester: Wiley, 2010. 2nd ed., 2016. 3rd ed, 2022,ISBN 9781119719168.
• We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014. Springer Nature, 2021.ISBN 978-3030845278.

• 1948 births
• Living people
• American historians
• American women historians
• Historians of Latin America
• University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
• Rutgers University alumni
• Union College (New York) faculty

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