Rate My Professor Mark Healey

Mark Healey serves as Associate Professor and Department Head of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Born in Germany and raised in New Jersey, Minnesota, and Argentina, he graduated with honors from Princeton University. After studying at the University of Barcelona on a Rotary Fellowship, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American History from Duke University. Healey completed a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University and taught at the University of Mississippi and the University of California, Berkeley before joining the University of Connecticut as Assistant Professor of History in 2011, promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at El Instituto: Institute for Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies.

Healey's research specializes in modern Latin America, with particular attention to Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. His academic interests encompass environment, cities and citizenship, architecture and urbanism, the history and politics of natural disasters and rebuilding, labor, race, nationalism, and state-formation. His research has been funded by fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. Major publications include the monograph The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake (Duke University Press, 2011) and its Spanish edition El peronismo entre las ruinas: el terremoto y la reconstrucción de San Juan (Siglo XXI Argentina, 2012). He edited and translated Blood, Ink, and Culture: Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition by Roger Bartra (Duke University Press, 2002) and Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation, 1788-1853 by Brian Connaughton (University of Calgary Press, 2002). Key articles feature “Planning, Politics, and Praxis at Colombia’s Inter-American Housing Lab, 1951–1966” in Itineraries of Expertise (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), “Boom, Echo, and Splinter: Citizenship and Growth in Greater Buenos Aires” in New World Cities (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), and “The Superstition of Adobe and the Certainty of Concrete: Power, Shelter and Technical Knowledge after the 1944 Earthquake in Argentina” in Aftershocks (University of New Mexico Press, 2009). In 2026, Healey received the Academic Leadership Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for exemplary leadership in enhancing departmental climate, transparency, and academic success.