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
Associate Professor Juliana Barr received her M.A. and Ph.D. (1999) in American
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 early America, the Spanish Borderlands, American Indians, and
women and gender. Her book, Peace Came
in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands [link]
was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2007. This
year, her essay “A Spectrum of Indian Bondage in Spanish Texas” will
be published in Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan
Gallay. Meanwhile, she has begun work on a new research project, “La
Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): Gender and Religion in Old and New Worlds.”
