Education
Ph.D.: Yale University 1976
Research and Practice Interests
Ann Twinam received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1976 and taught at the University of Cincinnati from 1974 to 2004 when she joined the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research centers on colonial Spanish Latin America focusing on gender, sexuality, illegitimacy, family, and race. New projects include a monograph on sexuality and illegitimacy in Spain from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries and one on the purchase of “whiteness” and racial mobility in the Spanish colonies. Publications include Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America (Stanford University Press, 1999), winner of the Thomas F. McGann Prize and Honorable Mention for the Bolton Prize, and Miners, Merchants and Farmers in Colonial Colombia (University of Texas Press, 1982, Spanish version, 1985) as well as numerous articles. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Tinker Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and Spain, and has received grants from the Ford Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. She will be an NEH Fellow in 2005-2006.
Keywords
Latin American History, colonial, gender, race.