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Wightman, Ann M.


Chair, Latin American Studies
Latin American Studies Program
860.685.2396
Center for the Americas 201

Professor of History
History Department
860.685.2396
Center for the Americas 201

Professor, Latin American Studies
Latin American Studies Program
860.685.2396
Center for the Americas 201


BA Duke University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
EMAIL:
awightman@wesleyan.edu
WESLEYAN PO BOX:
 History Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:
HIST188 - 01
HIST296 - 01
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Director of the Center for the Americas and Professor of History, Ann Wightman specializes in Latin American colonial history. Her award-winning Indigenous Migration and Social Change analyzes the impact of Spanish colonization on traditional Indian communities. She is continuing her research on Andean society in her current study of kinship ties within the Indian community of seventeenth-century Peru. In 1996, she won a university award for excellence in teaching.
OFFICE HOURS:
Fall 2009: Monday 1:30-3:30 and by appointment.