Karen Graubart

Associate Professor
Faculty Fellow, Kellogg Institute for Peace Studies
History

Research Interests

Colonial Latin America; Medieval Spain; Gender; Race; Slavery; Indigenous Peoples; Law

Related Courses Taught

Colonial Latin American History; Slaveries in Latin America; Fugitive Blackness; Gender, Sexuality, and Colonization in Latin America; Atlantic History; Archives and Power

Biography

Professor Graubart is the author of With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700 (Stanford University Press, 2007), which was awarded the Ligia Parra Jahn prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies in 2008. She has published articles in Hispanic American Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, Slavery and Abolition, The William and Mary Quarterly, and other journals and books. Her work has received generous support from numerous foundations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, the American Association of University Women, the Kellogg Institute, and the John Carter Brown Library.