"La Dama Azul: Spanish Saint or Indian Demon of the Southwest?" by Juliana Barr April 16, 2010

To be held in 1210 Heller Hall

Juliana Barr is a Professor of History at the University of Florida. For additional information, contact the Center for Early Modern History at [email protected] or visit our website at www.cemh.umn.edu.

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 University of Florida's Department of History in 2004 after teaching four years at Rutgers University and one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the William P. Clement Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. 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 [link] was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2007. This year, her essay “A Spectrum of Indian Bondage in Spanish Texas” will be published in Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay. Meanwhile, she has begun work on a new research project, “La Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): Gender and Religion in Old and New Worlds.”

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