Sabine MacCormack

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Professor of Arts and Letters
Department of Classics
Department of History

Degrees

B.A., Oxford University; Diploma in Archives, Liverpool University; D. Phil., Oxford University

Research Profile

Professor MacCormack is a historian of the Roman empire, late antiquity and the early modern Spanish world, with a special interest in the peoples and cultures of the Andes. She has worked on the reasons for, and consequences of political and religious change, focusing on the impact of Christianity in the Roman Mediterranean, and in the Andes. Another interest is the interrelation between word and image, language and visual culture in the Roman empire and early modernity. Recently, she has been working on the impact of the classical tradition as formulated in Spain and Spanish America and of memories of the Inca empire on the development of early modern political cultures in the Andes. Some results of this research are found in her book On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru (2007). Currently, she is also working on the transformation of classical exegetical traditions in the writings of Augustine of Hippo. Her interest in teaching is focused on the nature of knowledge: on what we think we know, and why, and what we actually can know.

Contact Information

431 Decio Faculty Hall
631-9303
Sabine.G.MacCormack.1@nd.edu