Irene M Silverblatt
| Title: | Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Associate Professor of History |
| Office Location: | 201f Friedl Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-3516 |
| Email Address: | irene.silverblatt@duke.edu |
| Web Page: | http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/CA/isilver/research.html |
Education
- Ph,D. University of Michigan, 1981
- M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971
- B.A. Swarthmore College, 1970
Research Interests
Irene Silverblatt, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1981, researches the cultural dimensions of state- building and colonization in Latin America. She is particularly interested in the relation of gender, racial discourses, and historical memory to the construction and experience of power. As a Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, she will be writing a social history of Peru's political ideologies and the making of colonial Andean subjects. These concerns, combined with an interest in the history of anthropology, orient her next project on the emerging fields of Andean ethnography--in the United States and Peru--during World War II and the first decades of the Cold War. Her publications include Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru (1987); "Imperial Dilemmas, the Politics of Kinship, and Inca Reconstructions of History," (1988), winner of the American Society for Ethnohistory's Heizer prize; and numerous articles.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Subvention, "Program of Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, for publication of Modern Inquistions, Ministry of Culture, Spanish Government, July, 2004
- John Hope Franklin Center Book, "Modern Inquisitions", Duke University Press, March, 2004
- President, American Society of Ethnohistory, 2002
- Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard U, 9/2001-5/2002
- Frieda L. Miller Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001/2002
- Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, 1997
- Robert F. Heizer Prize, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1988
Postdocs Mentored
- Paloma Fernandez-Racines (1998/08-1999/07)
- Paloma Fernandez-Racines (1998/08-1999/07)
- CULANTH 113.01, GENDER AND CULTURE
Synopsis
- West Duke 108A, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- CULANTH 180S.07, CURRENT ISSUES (TOPICS)
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 204, W 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- CULANTH 190.01, THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 204, MW 04:25 PM-05:40 PM
Recent Publications
Books- with Irene Silverblatt and Helene Silverblatt editors and introduction, translated by Jerry Glenn and Florian Birkmayer with Helene Silverblatt and Irene Silverblatt, Harvest of Blossoms: Poems from a Life Cut Short (October, October, 2008). [html]
- I.M. Silverblatt, Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (Duke University Press, December, December, 2004). [abs]
- I. Silverblatt. "Native Andeans Observe Spanish Colonials." Europe Observed (2008).
- I.M. Silverblatt. ""Forward", Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America." Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America (2008).
- I.M. Silverblatt. ""The Black Legend and Global Conspiracies: The Spanish Inquisition, Race-Thinking and the Emerging Modern World:." Rereading the Black Legend (2007).