Faculty Profile for Dr. Jose Carlos de la Puente

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Dr. Jose Carlos de la Puente
Professor — History
TMH 215
phone: (512) 245-2142

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Puente Luna, J. C. de la. (2024). Customs Apart: Rethinking Inheritance and Competing Land Claims Among Commoner Women in Colonial Andean Villages. Colonial Latin American Review, 33(1), 79–104. https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2024.2311607
  • Puente Luna, J. C. de la. (2022). En los reinos de España: viajeros y pretendientes andinos en la corte de los Austrias. Lima, Peru: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos.
  • Puente Luna, J. C. de la. (2021). Of Widows, Furrows, and Seed: New Perspectives on Land and the Colonial Andean Commons. The Hispanic American Historical Review, 101(3), 375–407.
  • Puente Luna, J. C. de la. (2019). Calendars in Knotted Cords: New Evidence on How Khipus Captured Time in the Andes. Ethnohistory, 66(3), 437–464. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7517868
  • Puente Luna, J. C. de la. (2018). Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court. Austin, TX, USA: University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/10.7560/314432

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Flora Tristán Book Prize, Peru Section of the Latin American Studies Association. March 7, 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: José María Arguedas Best Article Prize, Peru Section of the Latin American Studies Association. April 3, 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Tibesar Prize, Conference on Latin American History. December 10, 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Citation for Distinguished Service, Institute of Andean Studies. January 12, 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Edwin Leiuwen Excellence in Teaching Award, Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies. March 18, 2021

Selected Grants

  • de la Puente, Jose Carlos. Fellowships Open Book Program (FOBP), National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $6600. (Funded: July 9, 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • de la Puente, Jose Carlos. Wilson Latin American Research Award, Center for International Studies, Texas State University, $500. (Funded: June 1, 2024 - June 16, 2024). Grant.
  • Puente Luna, José Carlos de la (Principal). Research Enhancement Grant Award, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 7, 2022). Grant.
  • de la Puente, Jose Carlos (Co-Principal). Producing a Manageable Historical Archive for Andean Communities, Arts And Humanities Research Council; Global Challenges Research Council; University of Exeter, Institutional (Higher Ed), $15420. (Submitted: May 30, 2022, Funded: September 9, 2022 - August 8, 2023). Grant.
  • de la Puente, Jose Carlos. Wilson Latin American Research Award, Center for International Studies, Texas State University, $1500. (Funded: March 3, 2019 - September 1, 2019). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Director
Institute of Andean Studies
January 13, 2022-Present
Member
The Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize
January 26, 2017-October 15, 2017
Guest Editor
Histórica. Special Issue "Indigenous Jurisdictions in New Spain and Peru"
2016
Member
The James Alexander Robertson Prize Committee of the Conference on Latin American History
December 2015-August 2016
Organizer, Host & Discussant
Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin American History
October 22, 2015-October 24, 2015