Faculty and Staff
Nils Jacobsen
Associate Professor of History
Professor Jacobsen specializes in Latin American history, with emphasis on the Andes, and comparative rural history. His current research focuses on politics and society in nineteenth century Peru, Indian communities, and land in Latin American history. Selected publications include co-editor, with Hans-Jürgen Puhle, The Economies of Mexico and Peru During the Late Colonial Period, 1760-1810 (Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1986); Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780-1930 (University of California Press, 1993); and "Liberalism and Indian Communities in Peru During the Nineteenth Century," in Robert Jackson, ed., Church and Indigenous Community Lands and the Challenge of Liberal Reform in Nineteenth Century Latin America (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming). Professor Jacobsen received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982.
Courses Taught | Current Research | Early Photographs of Latin America Project