Ann Twinam

Twinam graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1968, and earned her master's (1972) and doctorate (1976) in history from Yale University. Her dissertation was published as a monograph in 1982 as Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia (University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1982) and in a Spanish translation, Comerciantes y Labradores: Las Raíces del Espiritu Empresarial en Antioquia: 1763-1810 (Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales, Medellín, Colombia, 1985).

She is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.^[1] She taught at the University of Cincinnati from 1974 to 1998, where she received tenure in 1981.^[1] She won the 2016 Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association, the Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History,^[2] the Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association,^[3] and the Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize in Colonial Latin American History from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS).^[4] She won the 2000 Thomas F. McGann Book Prize from RMCLAS for Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America^[5][6] and Honorable Mention in 2001 Bolton Prize from the Conference on Latin American History.^[7] This work was translated to Spanish as Vidas públicas, secretos privados: Género, honor, sexualidad e ilegitimidad en la Hispanoamérica colonial ^[8] Twinam was chair of the Conference on Latin American History (2003–04), the professional organization of historians of Latin America, affiliated with the American Historical Association.^[9]