Sarah Chambers

612-625-6376

Department of History 1218 HellerH

Department Affiliations

Andean region
Colonial Latin American history
concepts of citizenship
cultural and legal history
political transition in the city of Arequipa, Peru
transition between the end of the colonial period and the formation of republican nations
women's history
Chile
letters authored by women in 19th-century Latin America

From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854. Chambers, Sarah C, Penn State Press, 1999.
To the company of a man like my husband; no law can compel me': Women's Strategies against Domestic Violence in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1850. Chambers, Sarah C, Author, Spring 1999.
Crime and Citizenship: Judicial Practice in Arequipa, Peru, During the Transition from Colony to Republic. Chambers, Sarah C, 2000.
Republican Friendship: Manuela Sáenz Writes Women in the Nation, 1835-1856. Chambers, Sarah C, 2001.
"New Perspectives in Latin American Women's and Gender History". Chambers, Sarah C, Author, 2003.
"Little Middle Ground: The Instability of a Mestizo Identity in the Andes, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,". Chambers, Sarah C, Author, 2003.
"Letters and Salons: Women Reading and Writing the Nation in the Nineteenth Century". Chambers, Sarah C, Author, 2003.
"Masculine Virtues and Feminine Passions: Gender and Race in the Republicanism of Simón Bolívar,". Chambers, Sarah C, Hispanic Research Journal, Author, 2006.
Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America. Chambers, Sarah C, Co-editor with Sueann Caulfield and Lara Putnam, Duke University Press, 2005.
"Letters and Salons: Women Reading and Writing the Nation in the Nineteenth Century,". Chambers, Sarah C, Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Author, 2003.

"Family, Gender, and Politics in Chile, 1790-1860": Archival research based upon civil lawsuits, military records, correspondence, and petitions. Funded in part by a Fulbright fellowship from February to July of 2003
Female Correspondence in 19th-Century South America: Ongoing analysis of letters written by various women in different countries.

Prize Committee: Conference on Latin American History , 1997
Program Committee: Southern Historical Association , 1998
Organizer and Host: 11th Annual Virginia-Carolinas-Georgia Seminar in Colonial Latin American History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , March 29, 1996 - March 30, 1996
Tibesar Prize Committee, Conference on Latin American History: Awards prize for the best article in 2001 in journal The Americas , 2002 - 2002
Selection Committee (Chair in 2004): Beveridge Research Grants, American Historical Association , 2003 - 2004
General Committee: Conference on Latin American History , 2002 - 2003
Faculty Senator: University of Minnesota Senate , 2001 - 2004
Co-coordinator, Symposium: "The Difficult Feminine Space: The Will to Be of Women in Latin American Epistolary and Novels, 16th to 19th Centuries," 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile , 2003 - 2003
College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Assembly, University of Minnesota: 1999 - 2001
Co-chair: Andean Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History , 2002 - 2004
CLA Budget Advisory Committee, University of Minnesota: 1999 - 2001
Associate Chair: Department of History, University of Minnesota , 2000 - 2002

Keynote Speaker, "Women and Revolution in Latin America": 33rd Annual East Carolina University Symposium on History and the Social Stud, "Revolutions: Impact and Implications", September 1997
Invited Speaker, "Women and Citizenship in Latin American History": Afternoons with the Liberal Arts, Elder Learning Institute, University of Minnesota, April 16, 2002
Invited speaker, "Tales from the Archives: Women's History in Chile": U.S. Embassy, Santiago, Chile, March 28, 2003
Invited Speaker, "The Changing Role of Women in Latin America": Coffee with a Scholar, Elder Learning Institute, University of Minnesota, April 9, 2002
Invited Speaker, "The Many Faces of the Virgin Mary": Elder Learning Institute, University of Minnesota, February 8, 2000
Invited Speaker, "Andean Utopias: The Indigenous Response to Spanish Colonialism," the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Seminar on "Forming a New World: Spain and Early America,", 1997
"Women's roles in South American Revolutions against Spain in the 19th Century,": Afternoons with the Liberal Arts, Osher Life Long Learning Institute, Jan. 18, 2005

Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.
Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.
November 17th, 2009
Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.
June 5th, 2009
Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.
June 5th, 2009