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Telephone: (617) 552-2267 Email: sergio.serulnikov@bc.edu |
Education
Ph.D., SUNY, Stony Brook, 1998
Fields of Interest
Colonial Latin America; Andean history and society; social movements; colonialism
Academic Profile
Professor Serulnikov joined the faculty in the fall of 1999. He specializes in colonial Latin American history in the 18th century with particular attention to issues of peasant economy, ethnicity, the Spanish empire, and Indian rebellions. He teaches courses on Colonial Latin America, social movements in comparative perspective, Andean history and society, and early colonial encounters in the Americas. He has received grants or fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la Argentina.
Representative Publications
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Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes (2003)
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"De forasteros a hilacatas: una familia andina del grupo Chullpa, provincia de Chayanta, siglo XVIII" Jahrbuch fur Geschichte Lateinamerikas (2003)
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"Andean Political Imagination in the late Eighteenth Century" Political Cultures in the Andes (forthcoming)
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"Customs and Rules: Social Conflicts in the Age of Bourbon Reformism (Northern Potosí in the 1770s)" Colonial Latin American Review (1999)
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"Disputed Images of Colonialism. Spanish Rule and Indian Subversion in Northern Potosí, 1777-1780" Hispanic American Historical Review (1996)
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"'Su verdad y su justicia'. Tomás Katari y la insurrección aymara de Chayanta 1777-1781" Entre la retórica y la insurgencia: las ideas y los movimientos sociales en los Andes, siglo XVIII (1996)
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"When Looting Became a Right. Food Riots and Urban Poverty in Argentina (May-June 1989)" Latin American Perspectives (1994)