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Karen Graubart

Associate Professor
Department of History

Degrees

B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts/Amherst

Research Profile

Karen Graubart received her Ph.D. in economics in 2000 from the University of Massachusetts.  Her first book, With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society, Peru 1550-1700, was published in 2007 with Stanford University Press and won the Ligia Parra Jahn Prize from the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies. Her newest project examines spatial, social and economic relations between peoples of different confessional status (Muslims, Jews, Christians) and different ethnic status (Africans, Spaniards, Indians) in Seville (Spain) and Lima (Peru) in the 15th and 16th centuries.  Prior to coming to Notre Dame, she was Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University and a visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts.

Contact Information

475 Decio Faculty Hall
631-0377
kgraubar@nd.edu