Peter Sigal, Professor
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Office Location: 234 Classroom Building
Office Phone: (919) 684-3014
Email Address: peter.sigal@duke.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
B.A., Bucknell University, 1986
Expertise:
Comparative Colonial Studies
Gender
Military History
Medieval and Early Modern History
Global Transnational History
Cultural History
Global and Comparative
Latin America and the Caribbean
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- Sigal, P, The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture, Latin America Otherwise (2011), pp. 1-361, Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php] [abs].
- Sigal, P, Imagining Cihuacoatl: Mexica Masculinity and Spanish Colonization, Gender & History, vol. 22 no. 3 (November, 2010), pp. 538-563, WILEY (Republished in Historicising Gender and Sexuality. Kevin P. Murphy and Jennifer M. Spear, eds. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.) [doi] [abs].
- Sigal, P, Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality., The American historical review, vol. 114 no. 5 (December, 2009), pp. 1340-1353, Oxford University Press (OUP) [20425925], [doi] .
- Sigal, P, Queer Nahuatl: Sahagún's faggots and sodomites, lesbians and hermaphrodites, Ethnohistory, vol. 54 no. 1 (December, 2007), pp. 9-34, Duke University Press (Republished in Indigenous Religions. Steven Hunt, ed. London: Ashgate, 2010.) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs].
- Sigal, P, Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica, edited by Sigal, P; Chuchiak, J, Ethnohistory, vol. 54 no. 1 (January, 2007) .
- Sigal, P, The Cuiloni, the Patlache, and the Abominable Sin: Homosexualities in Early Colonial Nahua Society, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 85 no. 4 (November, 2005), pp. 555-593, Duke University Press [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
- Sigal, P, Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America (2003), University of Chicago Press [html] .
- Sigal, P, To Cross the Sexual Borderlands: The History of Sexuality in the Americas, Radical History Review, vol. 82 (2002), pp. 171-185 [repository] .
- Sigal, P, Gender, male homosexuality, and power in colonial Yucatán, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 29 no. 2 (January, 2002), pp. 24-40, SAGE Publications [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs].
- Sigal, P, From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire (2000), University of Texas Press [sigfro] .
Areas of Interest:
Colonial Latin America
Indigenous Peoples of Latin America
The History of Sexuality