Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. 1996

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Research Interests:

Colonial Latin America; Andean region; peasant and Indian politics; Andean religion; race/ethnicity; historical imagination and political memory; Bolivian history and politics.

Selected Works:

"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 inBolivia:  Anticolonial and National Projects from 1781 to 1952,” in Merilee Grindle and Pilar Domingo, eds., Proclaiming the Revolution:  Bolivia in Comparative Perspective,Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press, 2003

We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency.Madison: University ofWisconsin Press, 2002

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