About

Sarah C. Chambers is a Professor and the Department Chair in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota. Her role involves leading the department and contributing to its academic and administrative functions. The department itself is committed to instilling an appreciation for and understanding of the past, with faculty members possessing diverse and interdisciplinary research interests. While the provided page text does not specify her particular research focus or scholarly contributions, it highlights her leadership position and her affiliation with a department dedicated to historical scholarship and education. As a faculty member, she is part of a community that values interdisciplinary research and the professional development of students and staff.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Humanities
• Law
• Sociology
• Art
• History
• Economics
• Criminology

Selected publications

• Los lenguajes de la república: Historia conceptual y traducción en Iberoamérica (siglos XVIII y XIX)

  Hispanic American Historical Review · 2025-04-29

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• Families in War and Peace: How Chilean Dynasties Shaped a Nation

  2025-01-01

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  How intimate battles within powerful families determined the fate of an entire nation.

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• Beyond Heroes and Heroines

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023-03-23

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  Historiography has long relegated women’s roles in Latin American independence to stories of heroines who left home to support the movement only to return once battles were won. This chapter argues, by contrast, that shifting models of femininity and masculinity were central to a political transformation from colonies governed by paternal monarchs to republics that celebrated national fraternity among male citizens. Using intersectional analysis, it traces the multiple ways in which roles for both women and men of various social strata were in flux from the eighteenth century through independence. By the mid-nineteenth century, ideologies of separate spheres became dominant, allowing elite and middling women to extend their maternal influence into educational and charitable endeavors, but only by mobilizing as women. Poor women and women of color could neither live up to domestic ideals nor earn rights, like their male peers, through military service or as household heads. Rather than simply a colonial legacy of patriarchal domination, then, gender norms changed as women went from sharing with men differentiated ranks as colonial subjects to their exclusion from citizenship.

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• From Justice to Law: Late Colonial and Early Republican Eras

  2023-11-25

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  Rather than seeing independence as instigating a rupture in legal practice, this chapter argues that a gradual standardization and ascendancy of state law over other jurisdictions, such as ecclesiastical courts, began under Iberian monarchs in the mid-eighteenth century and intensified under subsequent national governments. Although constitutions marked an important shift in public law, most Spanish and Portuguese civil and criminal compilations remained in effect; changes, therefore, were implemented through shifts in interpretation and practice. Despite increased policing, reformed judicial institutions, along with enlightenment and republican ideas, also created spaces and discourses for subalterns to participate in transforming the legal culture. Women and the enslaved appealed to natural law in seeking written rulings that they were entitled to financial support and protection from abuse, and male criminal defendants invoked their rights to due process, often successfully. By the middle of the nineteenth century, increasingly exclusive definitions of citizenship shaped legal personhood. Those considered dependent on others, such as women and servants, could still access courts but had lost many protections and were unlikely to be treated as equal before the law, foreshadowing their status under new civil codes. Thus, the relative shift from pluralistic justice to positive law had uneven effects.

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• Digital Resources: Latin American Independence

  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History · 2022-02-23 · 1 citations

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  Abstract Between 1808 and 1825, political movements and warfare resulted in independence for the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the Americas, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico. The bicentennials of those events accelerated the availability of digital resources about Latin American independence. Libraries, archives, museums, and other educational institutions have created websites and mounted digital exhibits that provide overviews of the history for the general public, students, and researchers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Many of the same institutions are in the process of digitizing collections of primary sources from the period. Particularly abundant are open-access digital editions of newspapers and periodicals as well as other printed material from the early 19th century such as proclamations, edicts, speeches, broadsides, and constitutions. Some digitized archival manuscripts relevant to research on the independence period are also accessible online, especially from archives in Spain, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Although the vast majority of primary sources have not been converted to digital formats, many archives and libraries do have digital finding aids and catalogs that can be consulted prior to research trips. Transcriptions of primary sources are also available online, some created specifically for web portals and others as digitized editions of earlier published document collections. The availability of digital resources on the history of independence varies by country, with more material for Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Argentina while Central America, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay are underrepresented.

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• Expatriados en la madre patria: El estado de limbo de los emigrados realistas en el imperio español, 1790-1830

  Deleted Journal · 2021 · 3 citations

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  • Humanities
  • Art
  • Humanities

  Este artículo examina las solicitudes de socorro y compensación presentadas
 por los realistas desplazados por los distintos conflictos en curso
 a lo largo del imperio español en un período en que las fronteras estaban
 porosas. Se analizará la terminología empleada tanto por los emigrados
 como por las autoridades en España, Cuba y Puerto Rico para establecer el
 límite entre inclusión y exclusión. El vocablo “patria” podía expresar una
 pertenencia ambigua al lugar de nacimiento, a la comunidad de vasallos
 españoles, o a una nación incipiente. Cuando los emigrados se quejaban de
 ser tratados como forasteros por sus supuestos compatriotas, ellos expresaban
 una identidad bifurcada similar a la manifestada por exiliados extranjeros.

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• Private crimes, public order: honor, gender, and the law in early republican Peru

  Duke University Press eBooks · 2020 · 1 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Law
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• Manuela Sáenz: Americana or Quiteña?

  2020-11-16

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• Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth Century

  Duke University Press eBooks · 2020 · 5 citations

  • Political Science
  • Law
  • History
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• The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru. By Sabine Hyland. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2016. xii + 211 pp. $59.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

  Church History · 2019-06-01

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  The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru. By Sabine Hyland. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2016. xii + 211 pp. 24.95 paper. - Volume 88 Issue 2

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Frequent coauthors

• David Adamson

  Royal Agricultural University

  22 shared

• John Quiggin

  University of Queensland

  20 shared

• Thilak Mallawaarachchi

  University of Queensland

  13 shared

• Peggy Schrobback

  Agriculture and Food

  13 shared

• Onil Banerjee

  9 shared

• Jeff Bennett

  9 shared

• Andres Baravalle

  University of East London

  7 shared

• C. Warren Bierman

  5 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780–1854

  Penn State

  1999

• B.A.

  Not specified in the provided text

Awards & honors

• Fulbright Scholar Grant, Chile (2002 - 2003)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2012 - 201…
• Fulbright Scholar Award, Spain (Jan. 2011 - June 2011)
• Syllabus Prize, H-Latam and the Teaching Committee of the Co…
• The Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award (2018)