 Sabine G. MacCormack
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, csc, Professor of Arts and Letters;
Professor of History and Classics (DPhil, Oxford University, 1975)
Member of the American Philosophical Society and Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
312 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5677
574-631-3437
email: smaccorm@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/maccormack-sabine/
Geographic focus: Latin America; Europe
Thematic interests: Roman empire and late antiquity. The Andean region in the 16th and 17th centuries. Interaction between Andean and European cultures and religions.
Current research: She has promoted opportunities for Peruvian scholars and students to study in the US and has fostered the teaching of Quechua at the University of Notre Dame. Current research focuses on conflict and accommodation between Andean and Spanish political and religious ideas and practices in the early modern period. She is also working on Christianity and classical culture in the writings of St. Augustine of Hippo.
Selected publications: Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru (Princeton University Press, 1991); On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru (Princeton 2006); Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 1981); The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine (Berkeley, 1998). Numerous articles and book chapters, including "Ethnography in South America: the first two hundred years", in eds. F. Salomon and S. Schwartz, Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Volume III,1 South America (Cambridge 1999) pp. 96-187; "Conciencia y práctica social: pobreza y vagrancia en España y el temprano Perú colonial", Revista Andina 35 (Cuzco, July 2002), pp.69-99; "Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru" in John O'Malley and Frank Kennedy eds., The Jesuits II (Toronto, University of Toronto Press 2006), pp. 576-601; "A House of Many Mansions: Aspects of Christian Experience in Spanish America", in James Boyd White ed., How Should We Talk about Religion. Perspectives, Contexts, Particularities (Notre Dame, Notre Dame Press 2006), pp. 55-86.
Kellogg Lectures: "The Worlds of José de Acosta (1540–1600" (Feb. 1, 2007)
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