Juliana Barr
Office: 021 Keene-Flint Hall
Phone: (352) 273-3364
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: jbarr@history.ufl.edu
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jbarr/
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Assistant Professor Juliana Barr received her M.A. and Ph.D. (1999) in U.S.
women's history from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her B.A. (1988)
from the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the University of Florida's
Department of History in 2004 after teaching four years at Rutgers University
and one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the William P. Clement Center for
Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. She specializes in the
history of American Indians, women and gender, early America, and the Spanish
Borderlands. Her book, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians
and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands was published by the University
of North Carolina Press in spring 2007. She has also published "From
Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands" in The
Journal of American History (June 2005) which was recently included
in The Best American History Essays of 2007, edited by Jacqueline
Jones, and "A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the ‘Land
of the Tejas’” in The William and Mary Quarterly (July
2004), which has been included in the new edition of American Encounters:
Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850,
edited by Peter C. Mancall and James H. Merrell.
