Interim 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
American social movements, international human rights,
globalization, history of narcotics, and gender studies.
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.