Results for "history"

Projects

Reconstituting Indigenous Communities in Colonial Peru

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The European invasion of the Andes (1530s) devastated a diverse array of indigenous communities living under Inca rule. After decades of warfare, disease, and population decline, the forced resettlement (reducciones…

Global Jazz

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I am involved in a long-term multi-sited exploration of jazz *outside* of the US. Questions include: the role of race and class; stylistic variations; and the alternative political uses of the music in various…

Faculty

Douglas Biow

Affiliated Departments:
Comparative Literature, French and Italian, History, Medieval Studies Program, Plan II Honors Program
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Renaissance Italy. The History of the Individual from Antiquity to the Modern World. Translating Italian Renaissance masterpieces into English.

Ivan Y Chaar Lopez

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, American Studies, Center for Mexican American Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
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Digital Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Science & Technology Studies, history of technology (especially electronics and computing), US-Mexico borderlands, Latina/o/e lifeworlds and knowledge…

Adam Clulow

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, History
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Adam John Clulow is a historian of early modern Asia. His work is concerned broadly with the transnational circulation of ideas, people, practices and commodities across East and Southeast Asia. His current research…

Lauren Gutterman

Affiliated Departments:
American Studies
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Modern U.S. History; History of Women, Gender and Sexuality; LGBT/Queer Studies; Marriage and the Family; Popular Culture; Public History; Oral History; Digital Humanities

Julie Hardwick

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Women's and Gender Studies, History
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Early modern social and cultural history, legal history, women's history

Peniel Joseph

Affiliated Departments:
History, LBJ School of Public Affairs
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I am intensely interested in the history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, its relationship with the Black Power Movement and black radicalism in general, and its impact of racial justice, democracy, and notions,…

Robyn Metcalfe

Affiliated Departments:
School of Human Ecology
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Robyn has contributed to UT with research in the following areas: An assessment of the UT food ecosystem, leadership with the student organization, Food Studies, research for the Food Challenge Prize, which she…

Abena Osseo-Asare

Affiliated Departments:
History
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Abena Dove Osseo-Asare is an historian of medicine and science who focuses on cases in African societies.