Sabine MacCormack

Sabine MacCormack was born in Germany, and was educated both there and in England. Her degrees are from Oxford University (B.A.; D.Phil.) and the University of Liverpool (Diploma in Archives). Currently she is Mellon Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, her home institution being the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her books include Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 1981), and Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru (Princeton, 1991). Another book, Their Noble Poet: Vergil and Augustine, is in press. She is currently working on a book about historical thought in the Andes during the early colonial period. In spanning, in her published woirk, the classical world and the early modern Spanish empire, she explores, inter alia, the continuities and discontinuities of the classical tradition. She also writes about the nature of cultural and religious change, and the effects of religious conversion on individuals and societies. Another dimension of her research is the interdependence of visual and verbal communication.