Faculty

Deans - Smith, Susan
Associate Professor

Office: GAR 3.302
Office Hours: Spring 2008: W 10:00 AM-12:00 PM and by appt.
Phone:512-475-7205
sdsmith@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1984, Cambridge University

Research interests:
Her research interests include the history of Colonial Latin America and the Spanish Empire, with particular emphasis on Mexico and the Andean region; visual and material culture in Latin America .

Courses taught:
Colonial Latin America; Rethinking the Conquest of Mexico, Historiography of Colonial Spanish America, Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution in Colonial Mexico and the Andes

Geographic Area(s) of Study: Latin America

Thematic Field(s): Atlantic History, Empire and Globalization, Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Race, Ethnicity and Nation, Visual and Material Cultures

Awards/Honors:
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2000-2001
Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1995-96
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1988-1989
Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize, Honorable Mention, 1993, for Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers - the Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992)

Recent Publications:
Professor Deans-Smith is the author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico (1992), and is co-editor with Eric Van Young, Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of David A. Brading (2007).