Chad Black, an assistant professor of history, published his first book early in the fall semester. Dr. Black holds a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in Latin-American history, and is a social historian of colonial Quito and Ecuador more broadly. The Limits of Gender Domination: Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830 (University of New Mexico Press, 2011) is a study, based on a vast range of legal sources, of how women in Quito where able to exploit traditional legal culture, based on practices of consultation, negotiation, and contingency, to resist male domination surprisingly successfully, and of how the coming of independence in the early nineteenth century deprived them of this legal culture and left them open much more aggressive subjugation to male power.
Visit the Quest Gallery at Trace, UT’s digital archive, to access publications of other Quest Scholars of the Week.