Karen B. Graubart
Title
Carl E. Koch Associate Professor
Graduate Program Field
Latin American History
Specialization
Atlantic; Gender; Imperial; Latin America; Medieval; Mediterranean; Sexuality; Urban
Education
BA (1984) Barnard College, Columbia University
Ph.D. (2000) University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Research and Teaching Interests
Social and urban history of colonial Latin America; gender and sexuality in colonial Latin America; race, ethnicity, religion, and "difference" in the late medieval Iberian world; comparative slaveries in the Iberian world. My new book is a study of the construction of categories of difference, and the reaction of subject populations to these categories, in fifteenth century Seville and sixteenth century Peru.
Profile
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (9 months), John Carter Brown Library (2009-2010)
Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2009-2010)
Sabbatical Fellowship, American Philosophical Society (2009-10, declined)
Ligia Parra Jahn prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies for book, With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society, Peru 1550-1700 (2008).
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2004-05): for project, "From Moriscos to Mestizos: The Iberian Roots of Ethnicity in the New World"
Contact Information
Office: 475 Decio
Phone: 574-631-0377
Email: kgraubar@nd.edu
Mailing Address:
219 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556