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This interview is a life history with Katy Kole de Peralta. Katy is a professor of History living in Arizona. In the interview, she discusses working in academia, and her life with her family. She discusses her work Latin American History across different universities, and compares the advantages of tenured positions compared to non-tenure. She recalls meeting her husband who is from another country, and the experience of building a family and having two children across geographic and national boundaries. Katy also talks her love of Chicago, and living in Idaho and Arizona.This interview may be of interest to those who want to learn about working conditions in academia; international relationships.
Oral history is an iterative process. In keeping with oral history values of anti-fixity, interviewees will have an opportunity to add, annotate and reflect upon their lives and interviews in perpetuity. Talking back to the archive is a form of “shared authority.”