Faculty Profile
Marcelo Borges
Professor of History; Boyd Lee Spahr Chair in the History of the Americas (1997)
Contact Information
on sabbatical 2025-26
Denny Hall
717-245-1186
Bio
Marcelo Borges teaches Latin American history and migration history. His current research focuses on the history of migration, epistolary practices in context of migration, and the history of emotions. His publications include Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective (2009), Migrant Letters: Emotional Language, Mobile Identities, and Writing Practices in Historical Perspective (with Sonia Cancian, 2018), and Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration (with Sonia Cancian and Linda Reeder, 2021). He has been a visiting researcher at the Social Science Institute of the University of Lisbon, and a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies.
Education
- Licenciado en Historia, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1988
- Profesor en Historia, 1988
- Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1997
2026-2027 Academic Year
Fall 2026
HIST 130 Early Lat Am History to 1800
Cross-listed with LALC 230-01.
HIST 204 Intro Historical Methodology
Local archives and libraries serve as laboratories for this project-oriented seminar that introduces beginning majors to the nature of history as a discipline, historical research techniques, varied forms of historical evidence and the ways in which historians interpret them, and the conventions of historical writing.
Prerequisite: one previous course in history.
LALC 230 Early Lat Am History to 1800
Cross-listed with HIST 130-01.
LALC 490 Lat Am/Latinx/Carib St SR Rsch
Research into a topic concerning Latin America directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students must successfully defend their research paper to obtain course credit. The paper is researched and written in the fall semester for 1.0 credit and then defended and revised in the spring semester for .50 credit.
Prerequisite: senior majors.
Spring 2027
HIST 131 Mod Lat Am Hist since 1800
Cross-listed with LALC 231-01.
LALC 231 Mod Lat Am Hist since 1800
Cross-listed with HIST 131-01.
HIST 283 Latin American-U.S. Relations
Cross-listed with LALC 283-01.
LALC 283 Latin American-U.S. Relations
Cross-listed with HIST 283-01.
LALC 490 Lat Am/Latinx/Carib St SR Rsch
Research into a topic concerning Latin America directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students must successfully defend their research paper to obtain course credit. The paper is researched and written in the fall semester for 1.0 credit and then defended and revised in the spring semester for .50 credit.
Prerequisite: senior majors.