Center for Archaeology Online Salon

R. Alan Covey (University of Texas) in conversation with Di Hu (James Madison University) about “Inca Apocalypse”

Friday October 8th 2021 ( 4-6 PM EST)

Alan Covey has worked in the Andes since 1996, conducting regional surveys, excavations, and archival work that investigates the Inca Empire and early colonial Peru.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (2003) and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the American Museum of Natural History (2003-2005) before taking faculty appointments at Southern Methodist University and Dartmouth College.  Covey is currently a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has worked since 2014.  His current writing project looks at changing representations of the Inca Empire from the 1530s to the present, tracking how Western claims of enlightenment, civilization, and modernity reimagined the Inca world as being superstitious, barbaric, and ancient.

Di Hu is an assistant professor of Anthropology at James Madison University. She uses the lenses of political geography and landscape to develop a long-term understanding of strategies of consolidation and control, bottom-up social movements, and identity transformation. She has area expertise in the Andes, with research on multi-community polity and state formation in the southern Titicaca Basin (Bolivia) and rebellious social landscapes in Peru (Inca and Spanish colonial). She is the author of a forthcoming book entitled “The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru,” with the University of Alabama Press in 2021.

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