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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Woman To Earn a PhD in Latin American Studies" Lillian Fisher Hand Written Greeting Card. 

1 May 1891, Selinsgrove, PA, died 4 May 1988, Moraga CA) was one of the first women to earn a doctorate

in Latin American history in the U.S. She published important works on Spanish

colonial administration; a biography of Manuel Abad y Queipo,

reform bishop-elect of Michoacan; and a monograph on the Tupac Amaru rebellion in Peru. As distinguished colonial

Latin American historian John J. TePaske put it in 1968, "At least three

generations of graduate students have studied the works of Lillian Estelle

Fisher."  Fisher is

included as an example of sexual/gender discrimination in the historical

profession. Fisher

was born in Pennsylvania to farmers George P. Fisher and Etta R. Fisher in

1891. She attended Susquehanna University for

her B.A., earning highest honors in 1912. She briefly taught at a Methodist

normal school (teacher-education training school) in Puebla, Mexico

(1913–1916). Fisher moved to California and earned her M.A.

at the University of Southern

California in 1918, then attended the University of California,

Berkeley for her doctorate, which she completed in 1924 under Herbert I.

Priestley. She remained for a time in California, teaching at Whittier College. She taught for 15 years at the Oklahoma

College for Women (1926–1942), and returned to Berkeley, where she taught for a

time at the extension of the University of California. As Fisher was one a very

small number of women earning doctorates in history, her mentor was concerned

that as a woman she would face discrimination in the field; however, Priestley

did not support the entrance of women in major history departments. In

keeping with the intellectual trends in Latin American history at the time,

Fisher pursued institutional history, with one work on the viceregal

administration and the other on the eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms establishing the intendancy system. In

1955, she published the first full-length biography of reform bishop-elect of

Michoacan, Manuel Abad y Queipo. This

remains the main work on this important figure of the late colonial period in

Mexico. She also wrote a monograph on the background to Mexican independence,

and her research on Masons in that era continues to be cited. She also wrote an

important early article on women in the Mexican Revolution, "The Influence

of the Present Mexican Revolution on the Status of Women,"[7] which has been included in an anthology on

women in Latin American history.[8] Her final monograph on the Tupac Amaru revolt

was published in 1966, when she was 75.

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