DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
1 University Station B7000 • Austin, TX 78712 • (512) 471-3261 • FAX (512) 475-7222
CURRICULUM VITAE Ann Twinam
FALL, 2021
Basic Information:
Home Address: 116 Paragon Court Lakeway, Texas 78734 University Address: Department of History University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78734 Phone: 512-608- 9579 E-Mail: [email protected]
Academic Degrees:
Ph.D. (History): Yale University (December 1976) M.Phil. (History): Yale University (June 1972) B.A. (History): Northern Illinois University (June 1968)
Inducted Fellow October 2018: American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Title: “Miners, Merchants, and Farmers: The Roots of Entrepreneurship in Antioquia, 1763-1810”
Field: Colonial Latin American History
Research Specialties:
Latin American History, (Colonial--eighteenth century) Social, Race, Family History, Women and Gender, Spanish Atlantic World, Spanish History (sexuality and illegitimacy 15-18th centuries.)
Teaching Experience:
2017 Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History 2004- Present Professor, University of Texas at Austin 1998-2004 Professor, University of Cincinnati 1981-98: Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati 1974-81: Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati 1971-72: Teaching Assistant, Yale University
CURRENT RESEARCH
“Gender, Sexuality, Illegitimacy, and Family in the Hispanic Atlantic World: 1476-1800.” Based on 5139 Spanish petitions for legitimation from 1475-1800, 280 Spanish petitions from 1700-1800 and 244 American petitions from 1700-1800. Statistical analysis underway, documents in analysis.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press, 2015) Conference on Latin American History. Bolton-Johnson Prize for best book Latin American History American Historical Association. Albert J. Beveridge Award for best book on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present. 2016 (given AHA Jan 2017) Latin American Studies Association. Bryce Wood Book Award. 2016 best book Latin American StudiesRocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies. Bandelier/Lavrin Colonial Book Award. 2016 Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies. Ligia Parra Jahn Award for Gender History. 2016
Spanish edition under contract: Banco de la Republica: Colombia and the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín Colombia.
Vidas públicas, secretos privados: Género, honor, sexualidad e ilegitimidad en la Hispanoamérica colonial (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires 2009). (Spanish translation of 1999 monograph).
Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America (Stanford University Press, 1999). (Paperback edition, 2000). Conference on Latin American History. Bolton-Johnson Prize for Latin American History, Honorable Mention. 2001.
Mineros, Comerciantes y Labradores: Las Raíces del Espiritu Empresarial en Antioquia: 1763-1810 (Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales, Medellín, Colombia, 1985). (Spanish translation of 1982 book).
Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia (University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1982).
Articles
“Purchasing Whiteness: Conversation on the Essence of Pardo-ness and Mulatto-ness at the End of Empire.” in Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O’Hara eds., Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Spanish America (Duke University Press, 2009): 141-166.
“The Church, the State and the Abandoned: Expósitos in Eighteenth-Century Havana.” in Odina E. González and Bianca Premo, eds., Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Latin America (University of New Mexico Press, 2007): 163-186.
“El estado de la cuestíon—La historia de la familia, la historia de genero—pasado, presente, y futuro.” in Francisco Chacon Jimenez, Juan Herandez Franco, Francisco Garcia Gonzalez eds. Familia y organization social en Europa y America, Siglos XV-XX (Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2007): 329-42.
“The Etiology of Racial Passing: Constructions of Informal and Official “Whiteness” in Colonial Spanish America. In John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey eds., New World Orders, Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Early Modern Americas,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005): 249-272.
“Women and Gender in Colonial Latin America,” in Bonnie Smith, Women and Gender in Global Perspective. (University of Illinois Press, 2005): 187-237.
Reprint American Historical Association pamphlet, 2007.
“Estragegías de resistencia: manipulación de los espacios privado y público por mujeres latinoamericanas de la época colonial.” In Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru and Berta Ares, Las mujeres en la construcción de las sociedades iberoamericanas, Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos (Sevilla, Espana) and El Colegio de México (DF), 2004), pp. 251-69.
“Pedro de Ayarza---The Purchase of Whiteness,” in Kenneth Andrien, Social Order and Disorder in Colonial Latin America (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Press, 2002): 194-210.
“Las gracias al sacar: origen histórico,” in Pablo Rodríguez and Annie Molinie-Bertrand eds., A través del Tiempo: Diccionario de Fuentes para la Historia de la Familia (Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 2000), pp.107-112.
“Las reformas sociales de los borbones: una interpretación revisionista,” in Victor Manuel Uribe Urán and Luis Javier Ortiz, eds, Naciones, gentes y territorios: ensayos de historia e historiografia comparada de América Latina y el Caribe (Medellín: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 2000).
First reprint in Montalban 34 (Caracas: Universidad Católica Andre Bello, 2001), pp. 219-244.
Second reprint in La Familia en America Latina (Caracas: Montalban, 2001), pp. 219-244.
"The Negotiation of Honor: Elites, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America," in Sonya Lipsett-Rivera and Lyman Johnson, eds. The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame and Violence in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1998).
"Honor, Sexualidad e Ilegitimidad en la Hispano-Americana Colonial," in Asuncion Lavrin, Sexualidad y matrimonio en la America Hispanica siglos XVI-XVIII (Editorial Grijalvo, 1991). Spanish translation of 1989 article.
"Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America," in Asuncion Lavrin, Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America (University of Nebraska Press, 1989).
Reprinted in Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, Families in the Expansion of Europe, 1500-1800, (London: Ashgate Press, 1998).
"Honor, paternidad e ilegitimidad: Los padres solteros en America Latina durante la colonia, " Estudios Sociales, no. 3 (September 1988): 9-32.
"Comercio y comerciantes de Antioquia: Los Estudios Regionales en Colombia: El Caso de Antioquia (Antioquia, Colombia: Fundación Antioqueño para los Estudios Sociales, 1982): 115-54.
"De Judio a Vasco, Mítos Ethnicos y Espiritu Empresarial Antioqueño,” Universidad Nacional de Colombia, nos. 9, 10, (Enero, Abril, 1981): 105-118. (Spanish translation of 1980 article).
"From Jew to Basque: Ethnic Myths and Antioqueño Entrepreneurship, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs (February 1980): 81-107.
"Enterprise and Elites in Eighteenth-Century Medellín," Hispanic American Historical Review (August, 1979): 444- 475.
"Colombia: A Changing Continuity," Latin American Research Review 14 (Summer 1979): 271-275.
"Antioqueño Entrepreneurship: The Myth the Reality," in Proceedings from S.U.L.A. Latin American Studies Conference, 2 vols. (Buffalo, 1973), 2:184-207.
Sources (Translated/Selected)
"Death on an Eighteenth-Century Ecuadorian Hacienda. Was Don Joseph de Grivjalva y Recalde, Guilty or Not Guilty?" (with Introduction) in Richard Boyer and Geoff Spurling, eds. Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850." (Oxford University Press, 1999).
"Viceregal Lima in the Seventeenth Century," in Gil Joseph and Mark Szuchman, “I Saw a City Invincible,” Urban Portraits of Latin America, (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1996), pp. 59-61.
BOOK REVIEWS
Los muros invisibles: las mujeres novohispanas y la imposible igualdad. By Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru. Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico. 2016. pp. 363. Historia Mexicana SXVII,1, 2018: 1389-93.
Afro–Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000. By George Reid Andrews. Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Index. 123 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Hispanic American Historical Review 97:3, 2017: 532-33.
Robert Schwaller. Generos de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference. Normal:University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 48 2( Autumn 2017): 285-286.
Jane Mangan. Transatlantic Obligations: Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Journal of Early Modern History 21(2017): 149-151.
Colin M. MacLachlan. Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. The American Historical Review (2016) 121 (2): 617-618. doi: 10.1093/ahr/121.2.617.
Solange Alberro and Pilar Gonzalbo. La Sociedad Novohispana: estereotipos y realidades. México: El Colegio de México. 2013 Colonial Latin American Review March 2015, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p108-112. 5p.
Reuben Zahler. Ambitious Rebels: Remaking Honor, Law, and Liberalism in Venezuela, 1780-1850. The American Historical Review 2014 119 (5): 1746-1747 doi: 10.1093/ahr/119.5.1746.
Nicole von Germeten. Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias. University of New Mexico Press, 2013. Catholic Historical Review, 100:4(Autumn 2014):831-32.
Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade. By Linda B. Hall. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. The Americas 70:2 (October 2013): 312-13.
No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico. By Shirley Cushing Flint. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. Hispanic American Historical Review. 94: 1 (February 2014): 123-24.
María Emma Manarelli, Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima (University of New Mexico Press, 2007): The Americas 64:4(2008): 630-631.
Arlene Diaz, Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela 1786-1904 (University of Nebraska Press 2004). The Americas 62(2005): 103- 105.
Pete Sigal, ed. Infamous Desires: Male Homosexuality In Colonial Latin America (University of Chicago 2003). American Historical Review. (2004): pp 11273-75.
Ermila Troconis de Veracoechea, Historia de El Tocuyo colonial: Periodo historico, 1545-1810 (Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1977) in the HAHR (May, 1980): 724-725.
Antonio Julian, La perla de la America, provincia de Santa Marta (Bogota: Academia Colombiana de Historia, 1980) in the HAHR (August, 1981): 513-514.
David Church Johnson, Santander: Siglo XIX, Cambios socioeconomicos (Bogota: Valencia Editores, 1984) in HAHR 66:3 (August, 1986): 616-617.
Edda O. Samudio, Las haciendas del Colegio San Francisco Javier de la Compania de Jesus en Merida, 1628-1767 (Venezuela: Universidad de los Andes, 1985): in the HAHR (November, 1988): 827-828.
Robert J. Ferry, The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989) in AHR (December, 1992): 1637.
Gilma Mora de Tovar, Aguardiente y conflictos sociales en la Nueva Granada durante el siglo XVIII (Botoga: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1988) in the HAHR 70:2 (May, 1990): 353-354.
Donald F. Stevens ed., Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies, (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1997-98) in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of InterAmerican Cultural History, 55:3 (January, 1999): 493-94.
Guiomar Duenas Vargas, Los hijos del pecado: Ilegitimidad y vida familiar en la Santa fe de Bogota colonial (Bogota: Editorial Universidad Nacional, 1997) in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of InterAmerican Cultural History, 56:1 (July, 1999): 123-24.
Kathryn Burns, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999) in Journal of Women’s History (Spring, 2001): 213-215.
Ida Altman, Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 32:3 (Winter, 2002): 474- 76.
Federico Garza Carvaja, Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico, 1561-1699 Amsterdam: Amsterdamse Historische Reeks, 2000). Journal of the History of Sexuality vol. 11: 3 (July, 2002).
Pablo Rodríguez, Sentimientos y vida familiar en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (Bogotá: Editorial Ariel, 1997), in The Americas. 58:4 (April 2002: 650-652.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Invited Virtual Lecture. College of St. Benedict/St. John's University. “Purchasing Whiteness in Spanish America.” December 9, 2020.
Invited Lecture. Florence Italy. Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. “Dimensions of Abandonment in Spain and the Indies: The Casas de Expósitos and Beyond.” December 9, 2019.
Invited Lecture. Keynote Speaker. Universidad Autonima de Aguascalientes, Pardos, Mulatos y la Compra de Blancura en las Indias Españoles.” Conference Family and Demography, August 23-24, 2018
Invited Lecture. University of Memphis. “Pardos, Mulattos and the Purchase of Whiteness in the Spanish Indies.” November 9, 2017.
Charles Hale Invited Lecture. University of Iowa. “Pardos, Mulattos and the Purchase of Whiteness in the Spanish Indies.” October 12, 2017.
Invited Lecture. Bryn Mawr College. “Pardos, Mulattos and the Purchase of Whiteness in the Spanish Indies.” February 25, 2016.
Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin. “Parsing Darkness and Light: A Methodological Approach to the Society of Castes In The Spanish Indies.” April 21-22, 2016.
Invited Lecture. University of Alabama. “Pardos, Mulattos and the Purchase of Whiteness in the Spanish Indies.” October 15, 2015.
Department of History. Comments on “Darkness and Light.” September 14, 2015.
Invited Lecture. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City. “La compra de blancura en las Indias.” May 25, 2015. Rocky Mountain Council Latin American Studies. Tucson, Arizona. “Erring Males: Sexuality, Fatherhood and the State, A Trans-Atlantic Comparison.” April 9, 2015. Invited Lecture. University Houston. “Purchasing Whiteness, Pardo Mobility in Spanish America.” March 30, 2015.
Seville, Spain “Sexualidad, ilegitimidad y género en España y América: Sigo Dieciocho: Una comparación.” Congreso Internacional, Familias y Redes Sociales. November 12-14, 2014. Invited Lecture. University North Texas. “Sexuality, Illegitimacy and Family in the Spanish Atlantic World.” March 20, 2014. Invited Lecture. Brigham Young University, “Sex in the Old World and the New: Some Diachronic Comparisons.” April 2013. Invited Lecture. “The Tenth Muse: The Life of Sor Juana de la Cruz.” Speaker Series: Jewels of the Benson, University of Texas at Austin. November 3, 2011. Invited Speaker 3 lectures Venezuelan government: La Sociedad Colonial: Visiones y Perspectivas antes de la Independencia. Caracas. July 11, 12, 13 2011. Comment “La Republica Liberal y las mujeres: Intersecciones de lo publico y privado en la Colombia del siglo XIX. Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro. June, 2009. “Illegitimacy in the Hispanic Atlantic: A peninsular-American Comparison.” Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro. June, 2009.
“Passive Voice, Bourbon Reforms and the Council and Camara of the Indies: A Revisionist Interpretation.” Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico. March, 2009.
Invited Paper and Publication. “El estado de la cuestíon—La historia de la familia, la historia de genero—pasado, presente, y futuro.” (The State of the Question: The History of the Family, the History of Gender—Past, Present and Future.) International Conference: Families and Social Organization in Europe and America, 15-20th Centuries. December 12-15 University of Murcia, Spain. December, 2007.
Invited Lecture. Northern Illinois University. “Eliminating the ‘American defect’: The Purchase of Whiteness in Colonial Spanish America.” September, 2007.
Andrew Bell Appleby Memorial Lecture. San Diego State University. “Eliminating the ‘American defect’: The Purchase of Whiteness in Colonial Spanish America.” April, 2007. Chair and Commentator. “The Ideal and the Real: Masculinity and Femininity in the Hispanic World” Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies. Santa Fe, New Mexico. January, 2007.
Commentator. Comparative Histories of Interracial Sex and Identities in Hawaii, Mexico, and West Central Africa. American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA. January, 2007.
Invited Lecture. Huntington Library. “The Purchase of Whiteness in Colonial Spanish America.” October, 2006.
Invited Lecture. “Sex in the Old World and the New: Some Trans-Atlantic Comparisons.” University of Miami, Miami, FL. September, 2006.
Invited Participant Latin America. Mellon Summer Dissertation Research Seminar. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN. July, 2006.
Invited Lecture. Lockminster Seminar, Emory University. “Purchasing Whiteness: Conflicting Visions of the Mutability of Pardo-ness and Mulato-ness in Spanish America.” Atlanta, Georgia. March 2006.
“Women and Gender in Colonial Latin America.” Roundtable. Women in Global Perspective. American Historical Association. Philadelphia. PA. January, 2006.
“Padres Blancos, Madres Pardas: Genero, Familia y las Estrategias de Ascenso en America Latina Colonial.” AHILA (Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos) Castellon, Spain. September, 2005.
Commentator. Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Berkshire Conference, Claremont, CA. June, 2005.
Commentator. Popular Religion and the Church in Mexico, Rocky Mountain Council Latin Americanists. Tucson. March, 2005.
“The Purchase of Whiteness: Some Revisionist Thoughts” VACARA conference. Vanderbilt University. April 2, 2004.
“The Purchase of Whiteness in Colonial Spanish America.” Keynote Lecture, Ohio Conference of Latin Americanists, Ohio State University. February 27, 2004.
Invited Lecture. “What Every Graduate Student Needs to Know.” Emory University. April 11, 2003.
“Playing the ‘Gender Card’: Imperial Bureaucrats, Petitioners, and Gracias al Sacar Legitimations and Whitenings.” Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, Phoenix, Arizona. February 20-22, 2003.
“Is Race a ‘Defect’? Official and Popular Debates over Whitening in Late Colonial Spanish America.” American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois. January 2-5, 2003.
“Strategies of Resistance: Manipulation of Private and Public Spaces by Colonial Latin American Women.” XIII Congreso Internacional de AHILA (European Latin Americanist Association), Universidade dos Azores, Ponta Delgada, Azores. September 3-6, 2002.
Invited Lecture. “Social and Racial Trespass: Passing in Colonial Spanish America,” University of Texas at Austin. December 4, 2001.
“The Etiology of Racial Passing: Constructions of Informal and Official “Whiteness” in Colonial Spanish America. Conference on New World Orders, Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Early Modern Americas,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania. October 20, 2001.
Overall Commentator on papers for Sexuality in America: “Why these Papers are Alien to a Colonial Latin Americanist,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania. June 3, 2000.
“Purchasing Whiteness: Late Colonial Definitions of Race and the cedula de gracias al sacar,” Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida. March 17, 2000.
Invited Lecture. “Public Lives, Private Secrets: Women, Sexuality, and Honor in Colonial Spanish America," Ohio State University. February 23, 2000.
“What’s a Father to Do? Pedro Ayarza’s Quest to Purchase Whiteness,” Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies. Santa Fe, New Mexico. January 14, 2000.
“Forgotten Histories: Gender in the Lives of Colonial Latin American Peoples,” American Historical Association. Chicago, Ill. January 8, 2000.
“Oficiales reales en el papel de casamenteros: Sexualidad, ilegitimidad y familia en Hispanoamerica borbonica,” in Familia y Vida Cotidiana en Latinoamérica. Instituto Riva-Aguero, Pontifica Universidad Catolica, Lima Peru. December 14-17, 1999.
“The Church, the State, and the Abandoned: Expósitos in Eighteenth-Century Havana,” Association of Caribbean Historians. Havana, Cuba. April 13, 1999.
“Everything You Wanted to Know about the Bourbon Social Reforms but were Afraid to Ask,” Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies. Missoula, Montana. April 24, 1998.
Invited Participant. "Familia, Sexualidad, Illegitimidad y las Reformas borbónicas: Una Interpretación Revisionista," Décimo Congreso de Historia de Colombia. Medellín, Colombia. August, 1997.
"Murder as Time-Freezer: Gender and Daily Life on an Eighteenth-Century Ecuadorian Hacienda," International Congress of Americanists. Quito, Ecuador. July, 1997.
Comment on session Race, Gender and Family in Colonial Mexico. American Historical Association New York, New York, N.Y. January, 1997.
"Gender, Crime, and Popular Culture: An Ecuadorian Murder Mystery," Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies. Santa Fe, New Mexico. March, 1996.
"An Ecuadorian Murder Mystery: Gender Wars, Drunkenness and Death on an Eighteenth-Century Hacienda," Midwest Association of Latin American Studies. Baños, Ecuador. November ,1995.
"Public Lives and Private Secrets: Some Dynamics of Social and Racial Passing in Colonial Spanish America," American Historical Association. New York, N.Y. December, 1991. "The Politics of the Fount: Recognition and Treatment of Illegitimates within Spanish Colonial Elite Families," International Congress of Americanists. New Orleans, Louisiana. July, 1991.
Invited Lecture. "Restoring Women to History," University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. November, 1989.
" Invited Lecture. Monterrey y Medellín--Historias del Espiritus Empresariales," Universidad Autónima de Nueva Leon, Monterrey, Mexico. August, 1988.
Invited Lecture. "Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America," Rutgers University. Rutgers, New Jersey. February, 1988.
Invited Lecture. "From Huitzilopotchtli to the Virgin: Human Sacrifice and the Conquest of Mexico," Butler University. December, 1987.
"Patterns of Illegitimacy among Spanish American Elites," American Historical Association, New York, N.Y. December, 1985.
"Hombres Solteros, Honor, y Ilegitimidad en America Colonial," 45th International Congress of Americanists. Bogotá, Colombia. July, 1985.
"Unwed Mothers in Spanish Colonial America: Stereotypes and Realities," Midwest Association of Latin American Studies. Lincoln, Nebraska. November, 1984.
"Unwed Mothers and the Spanish American Colonial Elite,” Berkshire Conference, Smith College. Northampton, Mass. June, 1984.
"La Élite en la Antioquia colonial y republicana," Mesa Redonda. Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos. Seville, Spain. May, 1983.
“Characteristics of Colonial and Republican Oligarchy in Antioquia: 1780-1810, 1810-1840," 44th International Congress of Americanists. Manchester, England. September, 1982.
"Colombian Historiography and the Whichness of Why,” Invited lecture State University of New York (SUNY) December. Stonybrook, New York. April, 1982.
“Mineria Antioqueño en la Primera Mitad del Siglo XIX," Conference organized by the Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales (FAES) on El Mundo Rural Colombiano: su Evolución y Actualidad (Medellín, Colombia)." December, 1981.
“Medellin, Colombia desde Mon y Velarde hacia Coltejer: El Papel de Comercio y Comerciantes en el Desarrollo Económico de Antioquia," Conference organized by the Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales (FAES) on Los Estudios Regionales en Colombia: el caso de Antioquia. August, 1979.
"Region and Nation: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives," Latin American Studies Association. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April, 1979.
"Shades of Discontent, Medellín's Elite at Independence," Southern Historical Association Convention. Saint Louis, MO. November, 1978. "The Medellín Elite: 1780-1810," Gran Colombianist Session. American Historical Association. San Francisco, California. Winter, 1973.
"Antioqueño Entrepreneurship: The Myth and the Reality," State University Latinamericanists Conference. Brockport, New York. Spring, 1973.
CURRENT RESEARCH
“Gender, Sexuality, Illegitimacy, and Family in the Hispanic Atlantic World: 1476-1800.” Archival research completed, statistical organization underway (by fall 2018).
PRIZES/HONORS
2016 Conference on Latin American History. Bolton-Johnson Prize for Latin American History for Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press, 2015)
2016 American Historical Association. Albert J. Beveridge Award for best book on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present for Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press, 2015)
2016 Latin American Studies Association. Bryce Wood Book Award for Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press, 2015)
2016 Rocky Mountain Coucil of Latin American Studies. Bandelier/Lavrin Colonial Book Award for Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press, 2015)
2016 Rocky Mountain Coucil of Latin American Studies. Ligia Parra Jahn Award for Gender History for Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press, 2015)
2013 Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies. Edwin Lieuwen Award for Teaching
2013 Graduate School, University of Texas, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
Awarded, 2007. History alumnae of the year. Northern Illinois University
Winner, 2002. George Rieveschl Jr. Award for Excellence in Scholarly Works, University of Cincinnati
Honorable Mention, 2001. Bolton Prize for the best book of 1999 in Latin American History awarded by the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) for Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America
Winner, 2000. Thomas F. McGann Book Prize for the best book of 1999 in Latin American Studies (by a member) awarded by the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) for Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America
"Best Paper" of the 1984 Midwest Association of Latin American Studies (MALAS) Conference for "Unwed Mothers in Spanish Colonial America: Stereotypes and Realities," (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1984)
Honorable Mention, 1980. Robertson Prize for Best Article in the Hispanic American Historical Review awarded by the Conference on Latin American History. "Enterprise and Elites in Eighteenth-Century Medellín," (August, 1979): 444-475
B.A. "with highest honors," Northern Illinois University (1968)
FELLOWSHIPS
2018 Fellow Institute of Historical Research, University of Texas/Austin 2013 College of Liberal Arts CRF 2012 Fellow Humanities Institute, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas/Austin 2010 Fellow Institute of Historical Research, University of Texas/Austin 2008 LILAS Sponsored Fellowship for Research 2007 LILAS Sponsored Fellowship for Research 2007 Dean’s Fellowship 2006 LILAS Sponsored Fellowship for Research 2005 University of Texas Subvention Grant for Publication in Spanish 2005 LILAS Sponsored Fellowship for Research 2003 NEH (for 05-06) 2003 Taft Travel (within US) Grant 2002 Taft Travel (International Conference) Grant 2001 Taft Travel (within US) Grant 1999 Taft Travel (International Conference) Grant 1998 Taft Travel (within US) Grant 1998 Taft Competitive Fellowship 1997 University of Cincinnati Research Council Grant 1997 Taft Grant for Research 1997 Taft Travel (International Conference) Grant 1996 University of Cincinnati Globalization Initiative Grant. 1995 Taft Travel (International Conference) Grant. 1991 University of Cincinnati Research Council Grant 1990 Taft Sabbatical Grant 1989 Women's Studies, Summer Research Grant. 1988 Taft Committee, Summer Research Grant. 1985-86 Tinker Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 1985 University of Cincinnati Research Council Grant 1982 Fulbright Research Fellowship (Spain) March 1983-Sept 1983) 1981 University of Cincinnati Research Council Grant. 1981 American Philosophical Society Grant 1979 Fulbright Research Fellowship (Colombia) (Sept. 79--March 80) 1976 University of Cincinnati Taft Fellowship 1975 University of Cincinnati Brodie Fellowship 1972 Dougherty Fellowship (declined for FAFP) 1972-73 Foreign Area Fellowship (Ford Foundation) 1969 Yale University Summer Fellowship Grant 1968-72 N.D.E.A. VI Fellowship, Yale University 1968 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Conference on Latin American History Midwest Association of Latin Americanists Rocky Mountain Council of Latin Americanists American Historical Association
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE—NATIONAL/REGIONAL
Prize Committees
RMCLAS Bandalier/Lavrin Book Prize, 2017 Newberry Library February 2017 Reviewer of Grant Proposals Fulbright Committee, November 2016 Reviewer of Grant Proposals Bryce Wood Book Prize ,2016-17 Haring Book Prize (AHA), 2016 Robertson Prize,1999 (Chair) Bolton Prize, 1992-1993 Kelly Prize, Committee 1995-97 Kelly Prize, Committee 1997-98, Chair
Conference on Latin American History
Program Committee, 2013 Past President Service, 2005-7 Presiden,t 2003-05 President-Elect, 2001-2003 Elected Board Member, 1989-92 Member, Program Committee, 1991
Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies
Executive Committee, 2010-present President, Program Chair, 2010
Program Committee
Berkshire Conference, 2007
Joint Ford-AHA Committee on Globalization and Regional Studies
Member, 1998-present
Committee on Regional Latin American Studies Associations
Chair, 1984-91
Midwest Association of Latin American Studies (MALAS)
President, 1988-89 Co-Chair, Local Arrangements for MALAS Conference in Cincinnati, 1989-1990 Board Member, 1986-91 Nominating Committee, 1982 (Chair), 1986
Reviewer of Articles/Projects for:
Newberry Library National Humanities Center Hispanic American Historical Review Journal of Women's Studies The Americas, Senior Editor for Colonial Andes Law and History Review National Endowment for the Humanities Fulbright Commission Chilean National Science and Technology Commission
Reviewer of Manuscripts for:
University of Nebraska Press Cambridge University Press Stanford University Press University of Oklahoma Press
Outside Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure
Oregon State University of Texas, Arlington Rice University Wesleyan University University of California, Berkeley Emory University University of Southern California University of Memphis George Mason University Florida International University Rutgers University University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Virginia Tech
Consultant
Israel Science Foundation 2004 Fundación para la promoción de la Investigación y la Tecnología, Bogotá, 1995, 2002 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1990 Butler University, Curriculum on Change and Tradition, 1987 Banco de la Republica, Bogotá, 1984 Ohio Program in the Humanities, 1982
UTA Committees for Graduate Students
Completed degrees Theses and Dissertations Directed Ph.D. Roger Martinez (2008) Chair Ph.D. Corry Conover (2008) Chair Ph.D. Emily Berquist (2007) committee Ph.D. Chris Albi (2009) committee Ph.D. William Thayer (2009) committee Ph.D. Heather Peterson (2009) committee Ph.D Jesse Cromwell, (2012) Chair Ph.D. Renata Keller (2012) committee Ph.D. Jennifer Hoyt (2012) committee Ph.D. Mauricio Pajon (2013) committee Ph.D. Jose Barragan (2013) committee Ph.D. Evan Ross (2013) committee Ph.D. Jeffrey Parker (2013) committee Ph.D. Cheasty Miller (2013) committee Ph.D. Juandrea Bates (2015) committee Ph.D Julia Ogden (2014) Chair Ph.D. Susan Blue Zaikaib (2016) committee Ph.D. Liz Elizondo (2017) Chair Ph.D. Franz Hensel (2017 ) committee Ph.D Elizabeth O’Brien (2019) Ph.D. Christina Villareal (2020) Chair
Master’s Report Jesse Cromwell (2007) Chair Master’s Report Creighton Chandler (2007) Chair Master’s Report Mose Buchele (2007) Chair Master’s Report, Evan Ross (2007) committee Master’s Report Renata Keller (2009) committee Master’s Report Felipe Cruz (2010) committee Master’s Report Juandrea Bates (2010) committee Master’s Report Julia Rahe Odgen (2012) Chair Master’s Report Susan Blue Zaikaib (2012) committee Master’s Report Vasken Markarian (2017)
Ongoing committees Ph.D. Justin Heath (Chair)
Masters Haley Schroer (committee) Brittany Erwin (committee) Madeline Olsen (committee)