Karen B. Graubart

Associate Professor, History
(Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000)
Director, Latin American Studies Program (LASP)
219 O'Shaughnessy Hall
574-631-0377
email: kgraubar@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/graubart-karen/index.shtml

Geographic focus: Latin America

Thematic interests: Colonial Latin American history, gender and race in Latin America, the history of the Andean region, perspectives on the “other” from Iberia to the New World.

Current research: The historical sources for Iberians’ understanding of “Indians” in the New World by comparing the treatment of Muslims, Jews, and Sub-Saharan Africans under Christian rule in 15th century Seville, Spain, with the establishment of colonial rule of indigenous peoples and Africans in 16th century Lima, Peru. Understanding the similarities and differences will provide new background for the formation of theories of racial and cultural difference, which became central to the construction of societies in Latin America.

Selected publications: "The Creolization of the New World: Local Forms of Identity in Urban Colonial Peru, 1560-1640" in Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming); With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru 1550-1700 (Stanford, 2007); “De qadis y caciques,” Bulletin del Institut Français d’Etudes Andines, forthcoming; “La moda colonial: aproximaciones a la etnicidad en dos ciudades peruanas coloniales,” in Tejiendo Sueños en el Cono Sur, ed. Victória Solanilla (Barcelona, Grup d’Estudis Precolombins, 2005); “Hybrid Thinking: Bringing Postcolonial Theory to Latin American Economic History,” in Postcolonial Thought and Economics, ed. S. Charusheela and Eiman Zein-Elabdin (Routledge, 2003).