Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1978)
Distinguished Faculty Scholar
South America in the 16th century, particularly Andes; ethnohistory; archaeology; Spanish paleography

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Office: 4354 Friedmann Hall
E-mail: catherine.julien@wmich.edu
Phone: (269) 387-4632
Fax: (269) 387-4651

Teaching

The courses I teach include the graduate seminar in ethnohistory, courses for both undergraduates and graduates in Colonial Latin America and other topics, and one of the required courses for the undergraduate history major (HIST 3900). In Spring 2006 I will teach a graduate seminar on Spanish Narratives of Exploration that is co-listed in the Spanish Department. The course will try out a new format for bilingual teaching involving both History and Spanish students.

Research

My research focuses on the world in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and particularly on South America and Spain at the time of the European expansion. An important project that will occupy the next three years (2006-2009) is a study of the large corpus of documents generated in the course of exploration by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Spaniards who traveled with him up the Paraguay River to the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the hemisphere. The project (co-directed with Pablo Pastrana Pérez of the Spanish Department who will work on language in the period of exploration) has been awarded an NEH Scholarly Editions grant; it is under contract for publication by the University of Nebraska Press. I have also just published a bilingual edition of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's account of Inca dealings with the Spaniards who arrived with Francisco Pizarro and am still actively engaged in the period of transition inaugurated when Spaniards overthrew the Inca empire.

Publications:

History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru, by Titu Cusi Yupanqui. Translated, with an Introduction, by Catherine Julien. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2006).

Reading Inca History (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000; paperback edition 2002).

Die Inka [The Incas] (Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag, 1998; 2nd edition, 2001). Translated and published in Italian as Gli Inca (Bologna: il Mulino, 2000). Translated and published in Spanish as Los Incas (Madrid: Acento Editorial, 2002).

"History and Art in Translation: The Paños and other Objects Collected by Francisco de Toledo." Colonial Latin American Review, 8(1), pp. 61-89 (Basingstoke: Carfax, 1999).

"Coca Production in the Yungas of Pocona." Andean Past, 5, pp. 129-160 (Ithaca: Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, 1998).