Dr. Juliana Barr

Biography

Juliana Barr is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Duke University, where she has taught since 2015. She specializes in American women’s history, early America, Spanish Borderlands, and the experiences of American Indians and women. Barr received her Ph.D. in American women’s history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999 and her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. She has also been affiliated with Rutgers University and the University of Florida. Her notable works include the book 'Peace Came From Woman: Indians ...' and various journal articles such as 'Los Adaes, Capital Spanish Texas' and 'Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking Latin America'. Barr has received multiple grants for her research, including a National Humanities Center Fellowship and support from the Huntington Library for her project on colonial America's Southwestern origin stories.

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