Overview
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
·
2015 - Present
History,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America. BjørnSletto, JoeBryan, AlfredoWagner, and CharlesHale, eds. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. 242 pp.
Journal Article The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology · June 2021 Full text CiteLos Adaes, the First Capital of Spanish Texas
Journal Article JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY · 2021 CiteRadical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America
Journal Article JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY · 2021 CiteRecent Grants
Barr NHC Fellowship
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Humanities Center · 2018 - 2019La Dama Azul: A Southwestern Origin Story for Colonial America
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens · 2015 - 2016View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Wisconsin, Madison ·
1999
Ph.D.