Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Inga Clendinnen

Research Publications

Selected Publications: Dancing with Strangers

Aztecs:
Chinese, Owl Publishing House, Taiwan, 2001.
Italian, Armenia, 1999.
Polish, 1996 by PIW Spanish
1998 by Patria
Ambivalent Conquests Spanish, Portuguese
Reading the Holocaust: Portuguese, Ediceos Prefacio, 2001;
Hebrew, Zmora Bitan

Prizes

• Conference on Latin American History Prize for best article in Latin American Studies on 1981 for Landscape and World View: the Survival of Yucatec Maya Culture under Spanish Conquest
  
• Comparative Studies in Society and History.
  Herbert Eugene Bolton Prize for best book-length study in Latin American History of 1988, for Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 Cambridge University Press, 1987
  
• Spain and America in the Quincentennial of the Discovery Prize, 1989, by the Program for Cultural Co-operation between the Spanish Ministry of Culture and United States Universities for Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 151 7-15 70 Cambridge University Press, 1987
  
• American Ethnohistorical Society for best ethnohistorical journal article published in 1991 for ‘Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty:’ Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico, Representations, 33, 1991
  
• 1998 NSW Premier’s Award for General History for Reading the Holocaust.
  
• 1999 NSW Premier’s Award for Cultural Studies for Reading the Holocaust
  
• 1999 National Jewish Book Award in the category of “Holocaust Studies” given by the Jewish Book Council of the USA
  
• Nita Kibble Award for Women’s Life Writing 2001 for Tiger’s Eye
  
• Adelaide Festival’s Inaugural Award for Innovative Writing, 2002 for Tiger‘s Eye.