Faculty
Sabine MacCormack
Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.Professor of
Arts and Letters
Department of History and Department of Classics
Degrees
B.A., Oxford University; Diploma in Archives, Liverpool University; D. Phil., Oxford University
Research Profile
MacCormack is a historian of the Roman empire, late antiquity and the early modern Spanish world, with a special interest in the peoples and cultures of the Andes. She has worked on the reasons for, and consequences of political and religious change, focusing on the impact of Christianity in the Roman Mediterranean, and in the Andes. Another interest is the interrelation between word and image, language and visual culture in the Roman empire and early modernity. Her book, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru was published in 2007. It won both the 2007 John E. Fagg Prize and the 2007 James A. Rawley Prize in History. Currently, she is working on late antique textual exegesis and on Augustine's commentaries on Genesis. Another project is about the life and ideas of the sixteenth century missionary, historian and theologian José de Acosta S.J. Her interest in teaching is focused on the nature of knowledge: on what we think we know, and why, and what we might actually know.
Contact Information
431 Decio Faculty Hall
631-9303