JOSÉ CARLOS DE LA PUENTE
601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666 | (512) 438-3130 | jd65@txstate.edu
__________________________________________EDUCATION__________________________________________
| Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX Ph.D. in History Dissertation: “Into the Heart of the Empire. Indian Journeys to the Habsburg Royal Court.” Areas of Concentration: Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, Anthropology | 2010 |
| Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX M.A. in History Thesis: “What’s in a Name: An Indian Trickster Travels the Spanish Colonial World” | 2006 |
| Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru B.A. in History Thesis: “Elite andina colonial y hechicería en el Valle del Mantaro (Segunda mitad del siglo XVII)” | 2004 |
_____________________________________TEACHING EXPERIENCE____________________________________
| Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Assistant Professor Latin American History: Colonial & Modern Periods; World History To / Since 1500; Graduate Seminar on Colonial Latin American Historiography | 2010 - Present |
| Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX Adjunct Instructor Colonial Latin American History; Modern Latin American History | 2008-2010 |
| American Institute for Foreign Study, Cuzco, Peru Resident Director & Instructor Inca Civilization | 2008-2009 |
_______________________________OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE______________________________
| Pan American Health Organization Research Assistant Marcos Cueto, The Value of Health: A History of the Pan American Health Organization. Washington D.C.: PAHO, 2006 | 2003 |
| Histórica Academic Journal Editorial Assistant | 2000-2004 |
_________________________________________PUBLICATIONS_________________________________________
a. Refereed publications
Books
Edited with Marco Curatola Petrocchi, El quipu colonial: estudios y materiales. Lima: Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Perú, 2013.
Los curacas hechiceros de Jauja. Batallas mágicas y legales en el Perú colonial. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2007 [Reviewed in Histórica 31.1 (2007): 207-10]. Download Introduction.
Chapters in Books
“El cronista, el capitán y el ermitaño, o cuándo nació el autor de El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno.” En la encrucijada de los pensamientos europeo y andino: la crónica de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. Ed. J.P. Husson [forthcoming].
Co-authored with Marco Curatola Petrocchi, “Estudios y materiales sobre el uso de los quipus en el mundo andino colonial.” In El quipu colonial: estudios y materiales. Eds. Marco Curatola Petrocchi and José Carlos de la Puente Luna. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013, 9-30.
Co-authored with Marco Curatola Petrocchi, “Contar concertando: quipus, piedritas y escritura en los Andes coloniales.” In El quipu colonial: estudios y materiales. Eds. Marco Curatola Petrocchi and José Carlos de la Puente Luna. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013, 193-243.
“Curacas ‘amigos de cristianos’ y ‘traidores’ a sus indios: a propósito de la alianza hispano-huanca.” In Pueblos del Hatun Mayu. Historia, Arqueología y Antropología en el valle del Mantaro. Eds. José Luis Álvarez Ramos, Carlos H. Hurtado Ames and Manuel F. Perales Munguía. Lima: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, 2011, 87-110 [Selected by the National Council of Science, Technology, and Technological Innovation of Peru for funding and publication].
“Huarivilca y Urochombe: historia colonial de un oráculo andino.” Adivinación y oráculos en el mundo andino antiguo. Eds. Mariusz Ziolkowski and Marco Curatola Petrocchi. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú & Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, 2008, 293-310 [Reviewed in Ethnohistory 56:3 (2009): 546-7].
Journal Articles
"The Many Tongues of the King: Indigenous Interpreters and the Formation of the Spanish Legal Atlantic." Colonial Latin American Review [accepted for publication]
“A costa de Su Majestad: indios y dilemas indianos en la corte de los Habsburgo.” Allpanchis 39.72 (2008 [2012]): 11-60.
“Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, administrador de bienes de comunidad.” Revista Andina 47 (2008 [2009]): 9-51 [Centerpiece article, followed by comments, discussion, and response by the author].
“Cuando el ‘punto de vista nativo’ no es el punto de vista de los nativos: Felipe Guaman Poma y el problema de la apropiación de tierras en el Perú colonial.” Boletín del Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos 37.1 (2008): 123-49.
Co-authored with Víctor Solier. “La huella del intérprete: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala y la primera composición general de tierras en el virreinato del Perú.” Histórica 30.2 (2006): 7-39.
Co-authored with Mónica Medelius. “Curacas, bienes y quipus en un documento toledano (Jauja, 1570).” Histórica 28.2 (2004): 35-82.
Co-authored with Marcos Cueto. “Vida de leprosa: testimonio de una mujer viviendo con la enfermedad de Hansen en la Amazonía peruana, 1947.” História Ciências Saúde Manguinhos 10.1 (2003): 337-60.
Encyclopedia Articles
Basadre, Jorge. Historia de la República del Perú. 9th Ed. Lima: El Comercio, 2005 [author of twelve new entries in Vol. 10 and eleven new entries in Vol. 13].
“Huarivilca.” Enciclopedia Archeologica. Vol. 3: America-Oceania. Ed. Marco Curatola Petrocchi. Roma: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2004, 456-7.
b. Non-referred publications
Books
Co-authored with Sergio Vilela, El último secreto de Machu Picchu. Lima: Punto;Coma, 2011 [Popular history of the Inca site of Machu Picchu; more than ten thousand copies sold in 2011].
Book reviews
Dueñas, Alcira. “Indians and Mestizos in the ‘Lettered City:’ Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru.” The American Historical Review (forthcoming)
Charles, John. “Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and Its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 92.3 (2012): 555-56.
Osowski, Edward. “Indigenous Miracles: Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 36.3 (2012): 167-70.
Charles, John. “Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and Its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671.” Hispanic American Historical Review 92.3 (2012): 555-6.
Burns, Kathryn. “Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru.” Histórica 35.1 (2011): 213-16.
Jennings, Justin and Brenda J. Bowser, Eds. “Drink Power and Society in the Andes.” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal 23.2 (2009): 199-201.
Hurtado, Carlos. “Curacas, industria y revuelta en el valle del Mantaro (siglo XVIII).” Revista Andina 45 (2007): 190-1.
Stavig, Ward and Ella Schmidt, Eds. “The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions: An Anthology of Sources.” H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews. June, 2006.
Garrett, David. “Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cuzco, 1750-1825.” Histórica 30.1 (2006): 198-201.
Duviols, Pierre. “Procesos y visitas de idolatrías. Cajatambo, siglo XVII (con documentos anexos).” Histórica 29.1 (2005): 189-92.
Hurtado, Carlos and Víctor Solier, “Fuentes para la historia colonial de la sierra central del Perú: testamentos inéditos de los curacas del Valle del Mantaro (siglo XVII-XVIII).” Histórica 28.2 (2004): 254-57.
Ramirez, Susan. “El mundo al revés. Contactos y conflictos transculturales en el Perú del siglo XVI.” Histórica 27.1 (2003): 253-56.
Bertoni, Lilia Ana. "Patriotas, cosmopolitas y nacionalistas. La construcción de la nacionalidad argentina a fines del siglo XIX.” Histórica 25.2 (2001): 297-302.
Lavallè, Bernard. “Amor y opresión en los Andes coloniales.” Histórica 25.1 (2001): 301-04.
______________________________PAPERS, LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS______________________________
a. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
“An Interview with the King: Royal Justice and Indigenous Legal Culture in the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno”.International Guaman Poma Colloquium The Nueva corónica and its Contexts. The Royal Library,
Copenhagen, October 24-26, 2013.
“Litigation as Sapci: Communal Infrastructures of Justice in the Colonial Andes.” The Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies. Santa Fe, April 3-6, 2013.
“The Expanding Web: Native Litigants and Petitioners in the Spanish Atlantic World.” TePaske Seminar in Colonial Latin American History. Duke Univ. and the Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Durham, March 22-23, 2013.
“Yo me quiero volver a mi natural: Indians and Indianness across the Spanish Atlantic.” Southwest Council of Latin
American Studies. Miami, 2012.
“El cronista y el ermitaño: hacia una nueva cronología de la vida del autor de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.” Guaman Poma de Ayala et sa Chronique, Université de Poitiers, Centre de Recherches Latino-américaines. Paris, 2010.
Presented with Marco Curatola Petrocchi, “Contando en los Andes: quipus, piedras y granos de maíz.” Los sistemas de información inca. Quipu y Tocapu, Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia. Lima, 2009.
“Inca in Peru, Indian in Spain: Indian Travelers to the Spanish Court, 1532–1700.” 123rd Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York, 2009.
“Piedras, nudos y maíz: los quipus coloniales de la provincia de Lucanas.” VII International Congress of
Ethnohistory. Lima, 2008.
“What’s in a Name? An Indian Trickster Travels the Spanish Colonial World.” 122nd Annual Meeting of the
American Historical Association. Washington D.C., 2008.
“Guaman Poma de Ayala and the appropriation of land in 16th-century Peru.” 52 International Congress of
Americanists. Seville, 2006.
“Genealogía y poder en el valle de Jauja: el curacazgo de Ananguanca, s. XVI.” IV National Congress of
Anthropological Research. Lima, 2005.
“Huarivilca y Urochombe: historia colonial de un santuario andino (s. XVI-XVII).” 51 International Congress of
Americanists. Santiago de Chile, 2003.
b. Invited Talks, Lectures, and Interviews
“Contando en los Andes: nudos, piedras y maíz entre los Lucanas.” Invited talk at Seminario Interdisciplinar PISAC, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Cuzco, 2011.
“Who Found Machu Picchu?” Interview for Hugh Thomson and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2011.
“A costa de Su Majestad: viajeros transatlánticos en la corte de los Habsburgo.” Invited talk at Seminario
Interdisciplinar PISAC, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Cuzco, 2009.
________________________________GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS________________________________
| Dean’s Award, Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University | 2012 |
| Research Enhancement Grant, Texas State University | 2010 |
| Research Grant, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University | 2009 |
| R. & W. D. Cannon Scholarship, Texas Christian University | 2009 |
| Travel Grant, 52 International Congress of Americanists | 2006 |
| Boller-Worcester Travel Grant. Texas Christian University | 2006, 2008-2010 |
| Research Fellowship, Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos (Seville) | 2006 |
| Graduate Research Paper Award. Texas Christian University | 2006 |
| Graduate Student Travel Grant Award, Texas Christian University | 2006,2008 |
| Travel & Research Grant Award, Texas Christian University | 2005-2006, 2008 |
| Full Scholarship, Texas Christian University | 2004-2009 |
| Research Fellowship, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) | 2002, 2004, 2008 |
| Annual Research Award for best B.A. Thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | 2004 |
| Full Scholarship, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | 1998-2002 |
________________________________________MEMBERSHIPS_________________________________________
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