 Charles Walker
Professor, Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas
E: cfwalker@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-3046
O: 5213 SSH
W: http://hia.ucdavis.edu
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| Research Interests | | Latin American social, cultural, and intellectual history; Peru and the Andes; the history of catastrophes and natural disasters (earthquakes); the Tupac Amaru Rebellion; Truth Commissions.
I have several projects underway. Based on research in Seville and Madrid in 2007, I am writing a narrative history of the Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Other projects:
*With Carlos Aguirre and Willie Hiatt, finishing (finally) the translation of Alberto Flores Galindo, Buscando un Inca for Cambridge University Press.
*With Ken Verosub (Geology, UCD) a study of the 1600 Huaynaputina volcano that, we believe, affected the global climate.
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| Selected Publications |  Diálogos con el Perú: Ensayos de Historia, 2009.
Shaky Colonialism: The Earthquake-Tsunami of 1746 in Lima, Peru and its Long Aftermath
Duke University Press, March 2008 Lisbon and Lima: A Tale of Two Cities and Two Catastrophes
"Introduction" to The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions
An Anthology of Sources (Hackett, 2008), edited by Ward Stavig and Ella Schmidt “Teaching Truth Commissions,” Radical History Review, 97 (Winter 2007): 134-142. “Viajeros, naturalistas, científicos, y dibujantes. De la ilustración al costumbrismo en los artes, (siglos XVIII y XX)” with Víctor Peralta, in Ramón Mujica ed., Visión y símbolos del virreinato criollo a la república peruana, Lima, 2006, 243-273. “Remembering and Forgetting Agustín Gamarra: The Life and Legacy of the Cuzco Caudillo,” in Samuel Brunk, Ben Fallaw eds., Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America, Austin, 2006. *Co-editor (with Ricardo Ramírez, Antonio Garrido, Luis Millones F.,and Víctor Peralta) José Eusebio Llano Zapata, Memorias histórico, físicas, crítico, apologéticas de la América Meridional Lima: IFEA, PUC, San Marcos, 2005 |
| Courses Taught | | Latin American History, History of Race in Latin America, History of Inter-American Relations, History of the Andean Region |
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