TAMARA J. WALKER Curriculum Vitae PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Visiting Scholar, Americas Center, University of Virginia, Fall 2016 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, July 2009 – June 2016 Secondary Appointment: Department of Africana Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, July 2007 – June 2009 Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences EDUCATION Ph.D., History, August 2007. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI B.A., History and Spanish, 2000. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Spring 2017 American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2016 University of Pennsylvania University Research Foundation Award, 2014-2015 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, 2012-2013 John Carter Brown Library John R. Bockstoce Fellowship, 2012-2013 Trustees’ Council of Penn Women Faculty Research Fellowship, 2010 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, Peru, 2004-2005 PUBLICATIONS Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima (Cambridge University Press, in production) [Refereed]. “The Material Bonds of Slavery,” in “Critical Forum on Robert S. DuPlessis, The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd. ser., 73, no. 3 (July 2016): 538-542 [Invited submission]. “Black Skin, White Uniforms: Race, Clothing, and the Visual Vernacular of Luxury in the Andes,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture and Society 18, no. 4 (forthcoming, December 2016), 28 pages [Refereed]. Blacks and Indians in the South Sea’s Age of Privateering, 1680s-1720s” The Americas (revised and resubmitted), 32 pages [Refereed]. “The Many Meanings of Violence in African Diaspora Women’s History,” The Journal of Women’s History (revising to resubmit), 35 pages [Refereed]. WALKER CV: SEPTEMBER 2016
“The Queen of los Congos: Slavery, Gender, and Confraternity in Colonial Lima, Peru,” The Journal of Family History 40, no. 3 (July 2015): 305-322 [Refereed journal]. “‘Blanconas Sucias and Putas Putonas’: Women, Social Conflict, and the Power of Words in Late-Colonial Lima, Peru” Gender & History 27, no. 1 (April 2015): 131-150 [Refereed journal]. "Slavery in Peru," In Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press (March 2014): 1-15 [Refereed]. Costume and History in Highland Ecuador, by Ann Pollard Rowe, ed., Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Review in the Hispanic American Historical Review 92, no. 2 (May 2012): 342-343. “The Past is Present,” in Samba em Sessão: Afro-Brazilian Art, exhibition catalogue, co-edited by Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw and Tamara J. Walker and (Philadelphia: The Arthur Ross Gallery, April 2012), 5-8. “Historian among Filmmakers,” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 12, no. 2 (April 2011): 139-147 [Refereed journal]. “‘He outfitted his family in notable decency’: Slavery, Honor, and Dress in Eighteenth-Century Lima, Peru,” Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-slave Studies 30, no. 3 (September 2009): 383-402 [Refereed journal]. Women’s Lives in Colonial Quito: Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish America, by Kimberly Gauderman, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Review in Gender & History 2, Issue 2 (July 2008): 423-425. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Books Slavery and Seafaring in the South Sea, 1565-1815 Black Objects: Race, Gender, and Representation in Andean History Edited Volumes Fashion and Image in the African Diaspora: From Slavery to the Modern Era (under review, the University of Illinois Press) INVITED TALKS “Slavery, Gender, and Self-Presentation,” presented at the Johns Hopkins University History Seminar, 27 April 2015. “Slavery and the Aesthetics of Mastery in Colonial Lima,” presented at The New York City Latin American History Workshop, Columbia University, 18 October 2013. WALKER CV: JULY 2016
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“‘In the Kind of Shirt a Gentleman Would Wear’: Slavery, Gender, and Self-Presentation” invited talk at the African Diaspora Forum, New York University, 24 April 2013. “Ladies, Gentlemen, Slaves and Citizens,” presented at the University of Delaware History Workshop, 18 October 2011. “Legal Status, Social Ties, and the Material Bonds of Slavery,” presented at the University of Texas at Austin Center for African American Studies, 23 March 2010. CONFERENCE ACTIVITY “Black Skin, White Uniforms: Race, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Modern Andes,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta, GA, September 2015. "'[They] proved to be very good sailors': Black Captives in the South Sea during the Age of Piracy," presented at the Britain in the World Conference, Austin, TX, 4 April 2015. "Lies, Omissions, and Dissemblance: African-Descent Women's Testimony in EighteenthCentury Peru," presented as part of "At the Edge of the Law? Women of African Descent in Colonial Latin America" roundtable at the Berkshire Conference for the History of Women, Toronto, CA, 22 May 2014. “‘To Correct the Detestable Luxury…’: Funerals, Fiestas, and Selfhood in Late-Colonial Lima,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, 3 January 2014. “Travelers and Artists,” presented at the Berkshire Conference for Women’s History, 12 June 2011. “Color, Status, and the Public Right in Late-Colonial Lima, Peru,” presented at the 124th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2010. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Spring 2015 HIST/AFRC/LALS 175: “Society and Culture in Brazil” HIST/AFRC/LALS 233: “Fashion and Image in the African Diaspora” Fall 2014 HIST/AFRC/LALS 70: “Colonial Latin America” HIST 400: “Senior Honors in History” Spring 2014 HIST/AFRC/LALS 175: “Society and Culture in Brazil” WALKER CV: JULY 2016
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HIST 398: “Junior Honors in History” Fall 2013 HIST/AFRC/LALS 70: “Colonial Latin America” HIST/LALS 233: “Latin America and the Artistic Imagination” Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Scholarly leave of absence Spring 2012 HIST/AFRC/LALS 175: “Society and Culture in Brazil” HIST/AFRC/LALS 233: “Fashion and Image in the African Diaspora” Fall 2011 HIST/AFRC/LALS 70: “Colonial Latin America” HIST 233/ARTH 301/AFRC 301: “Curatorial Seminar in Afro-Brazilian Art” Spring 2011 HIST 205: “Race & Nation in Latin America” Fall 2010 HIST/AFRC/LALS 70: “Colonial Latin America” HIST/AFRC/LALS 233: “Haiti: Then, Now, and Next” Spring 2010 HIST 329: “Comparative Slavery” HIST 205: “The City in the Early Americas” Fall 2009 HIST 70: “Colonial Latin America” AFRC 107, “Fashion and Image in the African Diaspora” Spring 2009 HIST 205: “Latin America after Slavery” Fall 2008 HIST 630: “The African Presence in Latin America” Spring 2008 HIST 205: “The City in Colonial Spanish America” Fall 2007 HIST 206: “Africans and their Descendants in Latin America” DISSERTATION COMMITTEE WORK Juan Ponce-Vázquez, “Challenge and Survival at the Edge of Empire: Spanish Local Elites in Hispaniola, 1585-1697,” defended on August 10, 2011.
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION WALKER CV: JULY 2016
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Fall 2014 HIST 960: “Independent Study in Latin America & the Caribbean,” Thomas Brinkerhoff (PhD Student, History) ANTH 600 “Directed Reading and Research,” Diego Arispe-Bazan and Tiffany Cain (PhD Candidates, Anthropology Spring 2014 HIST 960: “Independent Study in Latin America & the Caribbean,” Jacob Hazzard Been (MFA Candidate, School of Design) Spring 2012 HIST 960: “Independent Study in Latin America & the Caribbean,” Rosanna Dent (PhD Candidate, History and Sociology of Science) Spring 2011 HIST 960: “Independent Study in Latin America & the Caribbean,” Lynsey Bates (PhD Candidate, Anthropology) Spring 2010 HIST 960: “Independent Study in Latin America & the Caribbean,” Lynsey Bates (PhD Candidate, Anthropology) ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMITTEE WORK Graduate Committee, Department of History (2014-2015) Graduate Fellowships Committee, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies (2014-2015) Executive Committee, Department of History (2014-2015, and 2010-2011) Selection Committee, Penn Humanities Forum (2013-2015) Faculty Advisory Board, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies (2013-2014, 2010-2012) Undergraduate Prize Committee, Center for Africana Studies (2010-2012) Undergraduate Prize Committee, Department of History (2010-2011) Undergraduate Committee, Department of History (2009-2011) LANGUAGES Spanish: near-native fluency (reading, writing, speaking) French: moderate proficiency (reading, writing, speaking) Portuguese: moderate proficiency (reading, writing, and speaking) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS, AND SERVICE American Historical Association (AHA) Berkshire Conference for Women’s History (Berks) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) Manuscript Reviewer, Revista Fronteras de Historia and The Journal of Family History Contributing Editor, Handbook for Latin American Studies NON-ACADEMIC WORK WALKER CV: JULY 2016
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Technical Consultant, Spark Media, Washington, DC, December 2005 – November 2006. Directed content and costume research for PBS documentary Prince Among Slaves, winner of Television, Internet, and Video Association (TIVA) Peer Award for Best Costuming
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