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Graduate Program in History

Allan Durston

Degrees:  PhD University of Chicago
MA Universidad de Santiago de Chile BA University of Cambridge
Current Position:  Assistant Professor
 
Recent Publications: Book 2007    Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650, University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN). Articles 2008    “Native-Language Literacy in Colonial Peru: The Question of Mundane Quechua Writing Revisited” The Hispanic American Historical Review 88:1 41-70.
2007    “Notes on the Authorship of the Huarochirí Manuscript” Colonial Latin American Review 16:2 227-241.

Courses taught recently:

 

Themes in Latin American History: The Construction of Indigeneity (graduate) Christianities and Indigenous Civilizations in Colonial Latin America (4th-year)
 
Research Interests:
 Latin American history and anthropology; Peru; indigenous peoples; language politics
Awards/Grants: Received Fulbright Hays, National Science Foundation, and Wenner Gren grants for dissertation research, 2000-2002