Shawn Michael Austin
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Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas
Also affiliated: St. Mary’s College (2015); Saint Mary's College (2015)
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Shawn Michael Austin is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas. His research focuses on the history of colonial Paraguay, particularly the interactions between European colonizers and the Guaraní people. Austin's work examines the formation of economies, kinship structures, and governance systems during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His publications investigate the global origins of modern economies through the lens of European and Guaraní engagement, and explore the complexities of colonial kinship involving Spaniards, Africans, and Guaraní individuals.
His scholarship also delves into the historical development of nationhood and warfare in nineteenth-century Paraguay. Austin's research utilizes archival sources to understand early modern governance and community structures, particularly within Guaraní town councils. He has published widely on these topics, with his most recent work appearing in 2026. Austin's scholarly contributions have resulted in a h-index of 2 with 20 total publications and 21 citations.
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- h-index: 2
- Publications: 18
- Citations: 19
Positions
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Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound 2023–presentEdge Hill University English and Creative Arts ORCID
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Academic, Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound 2023–presentEdge Hill University English & Creative Arts ORCID
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Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas publications 2015–2026University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Listing
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Founding Director and Associate Professor 2019–2021Louisiana Tech University Music ORCID
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Assistant Professor of Media, Journalism, and Film, and Interdisciplinary Studies Coordinator 2013–2018Howard University Media, Journalism, and Film ORCID
Selected Publications
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Mutuality and “Common Consent” in Early Modern Elections and Governance: New Insights and Texts from the Guaraní Town Councils (2026)
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Parishioners of Sovereignty: A History of Nationhood and War in Nineteenth-Century Paraguay. By Michael Kenneth Huner. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025. Pp. 378. $70.00 cloth. (2026)
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Linda Biesele Hall (1939–2022) (2025)
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Los procesos de filtración en los documentos guaraníes: los intérpretes y las traducciones en el Paraguay y el Río de la Plata colonial (siglos XVI-XVIII) (2023)
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Los procesos de filtración en los documentos guaraníes: los intérpretes y las traducciones en el Paraguay y el Río de la Plata colonial (siglos XVI-XVIII) (2023)
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New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy (2023)
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BRIAN OWENSBY: “Lo que hoy llamamos economía fue parte íntegra de la vida social y moral. (2022)
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Los “indios cantores” del Paraguay: prácticas musicales y dinámicas de movilidad en Asunción colonial (siglos XVI-XVIII) (2021)
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Mining and Indigenous Knowledge - Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World. By Allison Margaret Bigelow. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. vii, 354. Appendices. Index. $39.95 cloth; $29.99 e-book. (2021)
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Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival Among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609–1803: The Formation and Persistence of Mission Communities in a Comparative Context, written by Robert H. Jackson (2016)
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Guaraní Kinship and the Encomienda Community in Colonial Paraguay, Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (2015)
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- Linda Biesele Hall (1939–2022)
- Linda Biesele Hall (1939–2022)
- Linda Biesele Hall (1939–2022)
- Mutuality and “Common Consent” in Early Modern Elections and Governance: New Insights and Texts from the Guaraní Town Councils
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