Colgate University Scholar Honored by the Conference on Latin American History
Posted on Dec 24, 2015 | Comments 0
Heather Roller, an assistant professor of history at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, received the Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize from the Conference on Latin America
n History. The Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize, established in 1976, is awarded biennially (in odd years) to the book or article in English, German, or a Romance language judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of indigenous people in Latin America.
Dr. Roller was honored for her book Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2014).
Dr. Roller is a 2002 graduate of Yale University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
