Juliana Barr, Associate Professor

Associate Professor Juliana Barr received her M.A. and Ph.D. (1999) in American women’s history from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her B.A. (1988) from the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the Duke University Department of History in 2015 after teaching at Rutgers University and the University of Florida. She specializes in the history of early America, the Spanish Borderlands, American Indians, and women and gender. Her book, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2007. She is currently at work on a new book, “La Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): A Southwestern Origin Story for Early America.”

Office Location:	211 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 684 3014
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Teaching (Spring 2024):

• HISTORY 373.01, AMERICAN INDIANS SINCE 1806 Synopsis

  Languages 109, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• HISTORY 702S.01, RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HST Synopsis

  Class Bldg 106, Tu 06:30 PM-09:00 PM

• HOUSECS 59.06, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis

  Perkins 070, W 05:15 PM-06:45 PM

• HISTORY 311S.01, MEN, WOMEN, AND SPORTS Synopsis

  Social Sciences 105, M 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

• HISTORY 336.01, COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA Synopsis

  Class Bldg 103, W 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

  (also cross-listed as MEDREN 436.01)

Education:

Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin, Madison

1999

Keywords:

American Indian . . • Borderlands--United States • Colonization--History • History • Indians of North America • Indians of North America--Study and teaching--Activity programs • Women and peace

Recent Publications

1. Barr, J, Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America. BjørnSletto, JoeBryan, AlfredoWagner, and CharlesHale, eds. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. 242 pp., The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 26 no. 2 (June, 2021), pp. 354-355, Wiley [doi]
2. Barr, J, Los Adaes, the First Capital of Spanish Texas, JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY, vol. 87 no. 3 (2021), pp. 517-518
3. Barr, J, Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America, JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 26 no. 2 (2021), pp. 354-355
4. Barr, J, Scaling Time in Pursuit of Native Sovereignty in American History, SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL, vol. 49 no. 2 (2018), pp. 447-450
5. Barr, J, "There's No Such Thing as 'Prehistory': What the Longue Duree of Caddo and Pueblo History Tells Us about Colonial America", The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 74 no. 2 (April, 2017), pp. 203-240, The William and Mary Quarterly [doi]