Sinclair Thomson's Teaching and Research InterestsResearch Interests:
Before coming to NYU, I lived and worked for a number of years in Bolivia, at a time when impressive Indian and peasant political mobilization was under way. My book, We Alone Will Rule, looks at Indian and peasant politics and anticolonial insurgency in the eighteenth-centuryAndes. The transformations in community political organization at that time shaped the present nature of Indian communities, and the struggles to end Spanish domination have inspired current popular movements. My second research project continues to explore the "age of insurgency" in theAndes. It considers the ways in which contemporaries sought to explain the great insurrection of Túpac Amaru in 1780-1781, how they interpreted its consequences, and the ways in which the insurrection has lived on in collective memory in the Andean countries. I am also working on a separate project examining religion and power in rural society in the late-colonial period.
Teaching Interests:
My teaching focuses on the colonial history of Latin America, with an emphasis on the Andean region. The seminars I’ve given or will be giving in the near future take a broad social history approach, and include themes such as the conquest, race and ethnicity, politics and rebellion, and religion and power.
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