Chair and Associate Professor
Department of History
St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
St. John Hall, Room 244I
Queens Campus
8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439
Tel (718) 990-6229
Fax (718) 990-2644
careye@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., 1999, University of New Mexico, Latin American History,
Women’s History
M.A., 1992, Florida State University, Latin American History,
European History
B.A., 1989, Florida State University, International Affairs
Profile
Elaine Carey is an Associate Professor at St. John's University in
Queens, NY. Her research and teaching interests include Latin
America, Borderlands, Mexico, history of crime and drugs, human
rights, and gender. Elaine has received numerous grants,
including Fulbright-García Robles fellowships 1996-97 and 2007-2008
and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is
the author of Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in
1968 Mexico (2005). Her work has also appeared in
History Compass, Journal of Women’s History, NACLA Report on
the Americas, and Post-Identity. From
1998-2002, she taught Latin American and women’s history at the
University of Detroit Mercy. While at UDM, Elaine co-founded
the James Guadalupe Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive
(CLASA), an activist and teaching archive on Latin American
solidarity and human rights movements. Continuing her work on human
rights, she serves as an expert witness for gender-based violence
asylum claims from Mexico and Central America. Currently, she
is completing a book entitled Selling is more of a Habit: Women
and Drug Trafficking in North America, 1900-1970 and an
edited volume with Andrae Marak, Transnational Contraband and
Vice in North America.