Silvia Arrom

Professor Emerita of History

Departments/Programs

History

Degrees

Stanford University, Ph.D.
Stanford University, M.A.
Bryn Mawr College, B.A.

Expertise

Latin America. Women's history. Social history. Specializes in Mexican history. Teaches on Latin American history, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latinos in the United States.

Profile

Currently studying how 19th-century philanthropic organizations provided social services for the indigent, then formed the basis of civil society.

Awards and Honors

Who's Who in American Education (2006)

Who's Who of American Women (2006)

Honorable Mention, New England Council of LAS, Best Book in Latin American Studies for Containing the Poor (2001)

Whos Who in America (2001 - 2002)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (1996)

President, New England Council of Latin American Studies (1996)

Listed in Who's Who in America (still included) (1991)

Bunting Institute Fellow (1990 - 1991)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1988 - 1989)

Honorable Mention, Bolton Prize for best book in Latin American History, Women of Mexico City (1986)

Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Research Grant (1981)

Foreign Area Fellowship (Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies) (1974 - 1976)

Scholarship

Arrom, Silvia. La Güera Rodríguez: Mito y Mujer. Mexico City: Editorial Turner México, 2020.

Arrom, Silvia M. Volunteering for a Cause: Gender, Faith, and Charity in Mexico from the Reform to the Revolution. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016.

Arrom, Silvia M. Para contener al Pueblo: El Hospicio de Pobres de la Ciudad de México, 1774-1871. Mexico City: CIESAS, 2011.

Arrom, Silvia M. ""Filantropía católica en el siglo XIX; las asociaciones de voluntarios de San Vicente de Paul"." Filantropía y acción solidaria en la historia de México. Ed. Jorge Villalobos Grzywobica. Mexico City: Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía, 2010. 59-85.

Arrom, Silvia M. ""Las Señoras de la Caridad: pioneras olvidadas de la asistencia social en México, 1863-1910"." Historia Mexicana 226. (2007): 445-490.

Arrom, Silvia M. "Mexican Laywomen Spearhead a Catholic Revival: The Ladies of Charity, 1863-1910." Religious Culture in Modern Mexico. Ed. Martin A. Nesvig. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. 50-77.

Arrom, Silvia M, with Jose J. Arrom and Judith Weiss. De donde crecen las palmas. Havana: Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello, 2005.

Arrom, Silvia M. Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871. Duke University Press, 2000.

Arrom, Silvia M (with Servando Ortoll). Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America 1765-1910. Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1996.

Arrom, Silvia M. The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857 (Spanish edition, 1988). Stanford University Press, 1985.

Arrom, Silvia M. La mujer mexicana ante el divorcio eclesiçstico (1800-1857). Mexico City, SepSetentas, 1976.