Sinclair Thomson

Sinclair Thomson Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. 1996. His dissertation was funded by the SSRC and the Fullbright-Hayes Fellowship. 


 * Analyst, Media Accuracy on Latin America

Select Publications

 * "Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics", co-authored with Forrest Hylton, Verso 2007
 * "The Chequered Rainbow," co-authored with Forrest Hylton, New Left Review, September-October 2005
 * “Was There Race in Colonial Latin America?: Identifying Selves and Others in the Insurgent Andes,” in Laura Gotkowitz, ed., Race, Culture, and Power in the Andes and Mesoamerica: From “Purity of Blood” to Indigenous Social Movements, volume under consideration by Duke University Press
 * Ya es otro tiempo el presente: Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indígena, co-authored with Forrest Hylton, Felix Patzi, and Sergio Serulnikov, with introduction by Thomson and Hylton, and prologue by Adolfo Gilly,  La Paz:  Muela del Diablo, 2003
 * “Revolutionary Memory in Bolivia: Anticolonial and National Projects from 1781 to 1952,” in Merilee Grindle and Pilar Domingo, eds., Proclaiming the Revolution:  Bolivia in Comparative Perspective,Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003
 * We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.