Joanne Rappaport

Joanne Rappaport received her PhD in anthropology in 1982 from the University of Illinois at Urbana. She has taught anthropology at University of Maryland Baltimore County and at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Quito), and most recently, joined Georgetown University in the departments of Spanish and Latin American Studies.

She is the author of The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes (1990) and Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History (1994).

She is currently working with art historian Tom Cummins on the relationship between visual and alphabetic literacy in colonial indigenous society in the northern Andes of Ecuador and Colombia.