York University
Alan Durston


Degrees:  Ph.D. 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 Authorship of the Huarochiri 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