Ann Twinam (born Cairo, Illinois 1946) is an American historian of colonial

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Education

Twinam graduated from

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in 1968, and earned her master's (1972) and doctorate (1976) in history from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. Her dissertation was published as a monograph in 1982 as ''Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia'' (University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1982) and in a Spanish translation, ''Comerciantes y Labradores: Las Raíces del Espiritu Empresarial en Antioquia: 1763-1810'' (Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales, Medellín, Colombia, 1985).

Career

She is a professor of history at the

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. She taught at the

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from 1974 to 1998, where she received tenure in 1981. She won the 2016

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from the

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, the Bolton-Johnson Prize from the

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, the Bryce Wood Book Award from the

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, and the Bandelier/ Lavrin Book Prize in Colonial Latin American History from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS). She won the 2000 Thomas F. McGann Book Prize from RMCLAS for ''Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America'' and Honorable Mention in 2001

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Prize from the Conference on Latin American History. This work was translated to Spanish as ''Vidas públicas, secretos privados: Género, honor, sexualidad e ilegitimidad en la Hispanoamérica colonial'' Twinam was chair of the Conference on Latin American History (2003–04), the professional organization of historians of Latin America, affiliated with the

References

1946 births Living people Northern Illinois University alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Cincinnati faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty 21st-century American historians Historians of Latin America Latin Americanists American social historians Women's historians {{US-historian-stub