Juliana Barr | Scholars@Duke

Juliana Barr
Associate Professor of History

Associate Professor Juliana Barr received her M.A. and Ph.D. (1999) in American women’s history from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her B.A. (1988) from the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the Duke University Department of History in 2015 after teaching at Rutgers University and the University of Florida. She specializes in the history of early America, the Spanish Borderlands, American Indians, and women and gender. Her book, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2007. She is currently at work on a new book, “La Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): A Southwestern Origin Story for Early America.”

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015

Contact Information

211 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
juliana.barr@duke.edu (919) 684-3014

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1999
Recognition
In the News
- MAR 2, 2021
  
  12 Duke-Authored Books on Women's History
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Selected Grants
- Barr NHC Fellowship awarded by National Humanities Center 2018 - 2019
- La Dama Azul: A Southwestern Origin Story for Colonial America awarded by The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 2015 - 2016
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Sleeper-Smith, Susan, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, and Nancy Shoemaker. Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians. UNC Press Books, 2015.
  - Barr, Juliana, and Edward Countryman. Contested Spaces of Early America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
  - Barr, J. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2009.
- Academic Articles
  - Barr, Juliana. “Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America. BjørnSletto, JoeBryan, AlfredoWagner, and CharlesHale, eds. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. 242 pp.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 26, no. 2 (June 2021): 354–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12553.
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  - Barr, Juliana. “Los Adaes, the First Capital of Spanish Texas.” Journal of Southern History 87, no. 3 (2021): 517–18.
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  - Barr, Juliana. “Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America.” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 26, no. 2 (2021): 354–55.
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  - Barr, Juliana. “Scaling Time in Pursuit of Native Sovereignty in American History.” Sixteenth Century Journal 49, no. 2 (2018): 447–50.
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  - Barr, J. “"There's No Such Thing as 'Prehistory': What the Longue Duree of Caddo and Pueblo History Tells Us about Colonial America".” The William and Mary Quarterly 74, no. 2 (April 7, 2017).
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  - Juliana Barr, Q. K. “The Red Continent and the Cant of the Coastline.” The William and Mary Quarterly 69, no. 3 (2012): 521–521. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.69.3.0521.
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  - Barr, J. “Geographies of Power: Mapping Indian Borders in the “Borderlands” of the Early Southwest.” The William and Mary Quarterly 68, no. 1 (January 2011): 5–46. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.68.1.0005.
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  - Barr, J. “Beyond the "Atlantic World": Early American History as Viewed from the West.” Oah Magazine of History 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 13–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/oahmag/oaq001.
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  - Barr, J. “How Do You Get from Jamestown to Santa Fe? A Colonial Sun Belt.” The Journal of Southern History 73, no. August (2007): 553–66.
  - Barr, Juliana. “From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands.” Journal of American History 92, no. 1 (June 1, 2005): 19–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/3660524.
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  - Barr, J. “A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the “Land of the Tejas.” The William and Mary Quarterly 61, no. July (2004): 393–434.
- Book Sections
  - Barr, J. “From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands.” In Journal of American History AP U.S. History Anthology, edited by J. Stacy and J. Sabathne, Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
  - Barr, J. “Borders and Borderlands.” In Why You Can’t Teach U.S. History without American Indians, edited by S. Sleeper-Smith, J. M. O’Brien, N. Shoemaker, S. Stevens, and J. Barr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
  - Barr, J. “An Indian Language of Politics in the Land of the Tejas (Submitted).” In Major Problems in Texas History, edited by S. W. Haynes and C. D. Wintz. New York: Cengage Learning, 2015.
  - Barr, J. “Captivity, Native Americans.” In The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, edited by J. C. Miller, V. Brown, J. Cañizares-Esguerra, L. Dubois, and K. O. Kupperman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
  - Barr, J. “Indian Women Who ‘Carry Gallantry Still Further Than the Men’: A Barometer of Power in 18th-Century Texas.” In Texas Women/American Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by S. Cole, R. Sharpless, and E. Turner. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014.
  - Barr, J. “A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the “Land of the Tejas.” In Early North America in Global Perspective, edited by P. D. Morgan and M. A. Warsh. New York: Routledge, 2013.
  - Barr, J. “The Colonial Sun Belt: St. Augustine to Santa Fe.” In Major Problems in American Colonial History, edited by K. O. Kupperman. New York: Cengage Learming, 2011.
  - Barr, J. “A Spectrum of Indian Bondage in Spanish Texas.” In Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by A. Gallay, 277–318. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
  - Barr, J. “From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands.” In The Best American History Essays 2007, edited by J. Jones, 13–46. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  - Barr, J. “A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the 'Land of the Tejas'.” In American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850, edited by P. C. Mancall and J. H. Merrell, 393–426. New York: Routledge, 2007.
  - Barr, J. “Beyond their Control: Spaniards in Native Texas.” In Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers, edited by J. F. de la Teja and R. Frank, 149–77. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
- Book Reviews
  - Barr, J. “Review of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn.” American Historical Review, 2015.
  - Barr, J. “Roundtable Review Forum on Paul W. Mapp’s The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763.” H Diplomacy, 2013.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Land of the Tejas: Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700 by John Wesley Arnn III.” American Historical Review. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Barr, Juliana. “The English Frontier in North America.” Reviews in American History. Project MUSE, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2012.0087.
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  - Barr, J. “Review of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War by Brian DeLay.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2010.
  - Barr, J. “Review of The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen.” Pacific Historical Review. University of California Press, 2009.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing by Rebecca Kugel and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, eds.” Ethnohistory, 2009.
  - Barr, J. “Review of A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez.” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter American Cultural History, 2009.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico by Robert C. Galgano.” American Historical Review. Oxford University Press, 2008.
  - Barr, J. “Review of After the Massacre: The Violent Legacy of the San Sabá Mission by Robert S. Weddle.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2008.
  - Barr, J. “Review of From Dominance to Disappearance: the Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 by F. Todd Smith.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2007.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 by Steven W. Hackel.” Western Historical Quarterly, 2007.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Environmental, Economic, Political and Socio-Cultural Variations on the Missions in the Rio de la Plata Region and on the Northern Frontier of New Spain by Robert H. Jackson.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2006.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Women and Gender in the American West by Mary Ann Irwin and James F. Brooks, eds.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2005.
  - Barr, J. “Review of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America by Nancy Shoemaker.” The Journal of Southern History, 2005.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks.” The Journal of Southern History, 2004.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Facing East from Indian Country: A Narrative History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter.” Florida Historical Quarterly, 2003.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Comanches in the New West, 1895-1908 by Stanley Noyes and Daniel J. Gelo.” Journal of the West: An Illustrated Quarterly of Western American History and Culture, 2001.
  - Barr, J. “Review of Wilderness Manhunt: The Spanish Search for La Salle and William C. Foster, ed., The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687 by Robert S. Weddle.” Florida Historical Quarterly, 2001.
  - Barr, J. “Review of French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 by Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale, eds. (In preparation)” Louisiana History, n.d.
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