Achievements
Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2025Bridget María Chesterton, Professor, History and Social Studies Education
Bridget María Chesterton, professor of history and social studies education, recently published a blog post for the Recipes Project special Spring 2025 edition on "War and Food." Her post considers how a Paraguayan cookbook helped form ideas about the nation following the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870).
In June 2025, she will also publish new book chapter in the text volume A Violent Peace: A Global History of the Interwar Period (University of Kansas Press) entitled "The Chaco War, 1932–1935."
She is also currently editing a special dossier on Paraguay, Dictatorship, and Everyday Life for the Middle Atlantic Journal of Latin American Studies (MARLAS). The edition is scheduled for publication in June and will contain her article entitled: "Cooking Up 'Peace:' White Middle-Class Paraguay Women in the Kitchen’s during the stronato."
