Dr. Alcira Dueñas
Faculty Oversight Committee Member of the Newark Earthworks Center
Email
Phone
244 Reese Hall
1179 University Drive
Newark, OH 43055
Areas of Expertise
- Latin American History
- Power, Culture and the State
- Race, Ethnicity and Nation
Education
- PhD. in Latin American History at Ohio State in 2001
- BA. in Economics at the University of Bogotá JTL, Colombia
Dr. Dueñas's teaching and research interests include the history of colonialism and post colonialism in Latin America and the roles of Andeans, women and other subordinate subjects in such processes.
Research
- K’acha Willaykuna: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration
- Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Grant
- “Cabildos de Naturales en el Ocaso Colonial: jurisdicción, posesión y defensa del espacio étnico”, Histórica, (2016)
- “The Lima Indian Letrados: Remaking the ´República de Indios’ in the Bourbon Andes.” In Indigenous Liminalities: Actors and Translators of Colonial Culture in Native Key, Special Issue, The Americas, Cambridge University Press (2015).
- Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru- 2010 University Press of Colorado