Tracy Brown, Ph.D

Anthropology

Anspach Hall 129
(989) 774-4485
brown3t@cmich.edu
 

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, Duke University, 2000
M.A., Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 1991
B.A., English and Women's Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1986
 

 

Teaching Expertise

 

North American Indian Cultures                                

Current Native American Issues                                             Gender, Culture and Society                               

Globalization and Society
 

Research Interests

 

Ethnohistory of the U.S. Southwest                       

Christianity and missionization in the Americas
Gender, Ethnicity and Class in the Americas                          Indian Peoples of the Spanish-Speaking World
 

Selected Publications

"The Politics of Community:  Gender, Power and Witchcraft in Colonial New Mexico."  Forthcoming in Women and Religion in the Atlantic World (1600-1850),  University of Toronto Press.

Book review of David Silverman's Faith and Boundaries:  Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871, 2005.  American Anthropologist, Vol. 108, No. 3, p. 615.

"'Abominable Sin'" in Colonial New Mexico:  Spanish and Pueblo Perceptions of Same-Sex Sexuality" in Thomas Foster, ed., Long Before Stonewall:  Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America (NYU Press, 2007).

"Tradition and Change in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities," Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), pp 463-500.

"Stratified or Egalitarian?  The Sociopolitical Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities," Kiva:  The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History:  Volume 69, No. 3 (Spring 2004), pp. 283-304.

"Conversion to Christianity in Colonial New Mexico:  Pedagogy and Personhood in the Pueblo/Franciscan Encounter," Catholic Southwest:  A Journal of History and Culture, Volume 12, June 2001, pp. 29-50.

Review of E. Barrett's Conquest and Catastrophe, and Jose Rabasa's Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier.  Ethnohistory Vol. 51, 3 (Fall 2004), pp. 649-53.

Review of Andrew Duff's Western Pueblo Identities:  Regional Interaction, Migration, and Transformation.  The New Mexico Historical Review Fall 2003, 78(4), pp. 500-502.

 

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