Ann Twinam (born Cairo, Illinois 1946) is an American historian of colonial Latin America.

Ann Twinam
Alma materYale University
OccupationHistorian
EmployerUniversity of Texas at Austin

Education

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Twinam graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1968, and earned her master's (1972) and doctorate (1976) in history from Yale University. Her dissertation was published as a monograph in 1982 as Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia (University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1982) and in a Spanish translation, Comerciantes y Labradores: Las Raíces del Espiritu Empresarial en Antioquia: 1763-1810 (Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales, Medellín, Colombia, 1985).

Career

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She is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] She taught at the University of Cincinnati from 1974 to 1998, where she received tenure in 1981.[1] She won the 2016 Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association, the Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History,[2] the Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association,[3] and the Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize in Colonial Latin American History from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS).[4] She won the 2000 Thomas F. McGann Book Prize from RMCLAS for Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America[5][6] and Honorable Mention in 2001 Bolton Prize from the Conference on Latin American History.[7] This work was translated to Spanish as Vidas públicas, secretos privados: Género, honor, sexualidad e ilegitimidad en la Hispanoamérica colonial [8] Twinam was chair of the Conference on Latin American History (2003–04), the professional organization of historians of Latin America, affiliated with the American Historical Association.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Ann Twinam". Department of History. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  2. ^ "CLAH » Prize and Award Descriptions". clah.h-net.org. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  3. ^ "LASA2020 / Améfrica Ladina: Vinculando Mundos y Saberes, Tejiendo Esperanzas". lasa.international.pitt.edu. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Bandelier/Lavrin Award". rmclas.org. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  5. ^ Stanford: Stanford University Press 1999.
  6. ^ "Thomas McGann Award". rmclas.org. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  7. ^ "CLAH » Bolton-Johnson Prize". clah.h-net.org. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  8. ^ (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires 2009)
  9. ^ "CLAH » Elected Officers". clah.h-net.org. Retrieved 19 December 2017.