Shawn Michael Austin
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Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas
Also affiliated: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (2006)
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Shawn Michael Austin is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His research primarily focuses on the history of the Americas, with a particular emphasis on colonial and post-colonial South America. Austin has published work examining the complex interactions between European colonizers and Indigenous populations, specifically the Guaraní people, and their impact on the development of modern economies. His scholarship also investigates the formation of nationhood, the role of interpreters and translation in colonial documents, and musical practices within Indigenous communities during the colonial period in regions like Paraguay and the Río de la Plata.
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- Publications: 20
- Citations: 21
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)
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