{"id":2169,"date":"2015-05-06T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/16.147.243.36\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2015-05-06T16:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:54:02","slug":"in-memoriam-sabine-maccormack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hahr-online.com\/pt\/in-memoriam-sabine-maccormack\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Sabine MacCormack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kellogg Institute has lost a dear friend and colleague with the sudden death on June 16 \"sabine1[1]\"<\/a> of Faculty Fellow Sabine MacCormack<\/a>, who suffered a heart attack while gardening, one of her favorite pursuits. She was 71.<\/p>\n

\u201cSabine was one of Notre Dame\u2019s most distinguished faculty members,\u201d said Kellogg Institute Director Scott Mainwaring. \u201cBeyond that, she was a person of great generosity and warmth. She was tireless and fearless in working for the collective good, and touched many lives in many places. I will remember her with the greatest admiration and affection.\u201d<\/p>\n

John McGreevy, I.A. O\u2019Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, called MacCormack \u201cone of the leading humanists\u201d in contemporary academia, noting that \u201cher scholarly range, from antiquity to the colonial Andes, was matched by her extraordinary scholarly passion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remarkable Range of Scholarship<\/strong>
\nThe Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Professor of Arts and Letters, MacCormack was professor of both history and classics, achieving prominence in both disciplines in works that spanned the Roman empire and late antiquity, the Andes in the 16th and 17th centuries, and interaction between Andean and European cultures and religions.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had one of the most fertile and creative scholarly minds I\u2019ve known, always generating new ideas and new projects, always noting what stood out of the box, always able to identify promising, innovative approaches and ideas,\u201d said Faculty Fellow Ted Beatty, a fellow Latin American historian.<\/p>\n

\"sabine2[1]\"<\/a>Born in Germany, MacCormack received her PhD at Oxford University in 1964 and taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University and the University of Michigan before joining the Notre Dame faculty in 2003.<\/p>\n

The recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\u2019s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2001, MacCormack was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. She was the author of numerous articles and book chapters in several languages and the author of five books, includingArt and Ceremony in Late Antiquity; Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru; The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine; and, most recently, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru.<\/p>\n

\u201cSabine MacCormack indelibly changed the way historians understand conversion in the colonial world,\u201d said Faculty Fellow Karen Graubart, an expert on the history of colonial Latin America.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was perhaps the first, and certainly the best, to take the position that a historian must work from within both traditions\u2014the Catholic and the Andean\u2014in order to understand the ways in which religious imagination emerged in the colonial context. Her critical insight into Spanish texts allowed an Andean worldview to appear alongside the Catholic view that sought to replace it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Home at the Kellogg Institute<\/strong>
\nMacCormack used the Kellogg Institute as the base for her wide-ranging scholarship on Latin America \"sabine3[1]\"<\/a>\u00a0and contributed in ways large and small to the Institute\u2019s mission. With great affection, she called the Kellogg community her home at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

\u201cSabine was peerless,\u201d said Anthropology Department chair Susan Blum, who served on the Kellogg Faculty Committee with MacCormack. \u201cI was always awed by her courage and clarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacCormack\u2019s arrival at the University catalyzed the establishment of Notre Dame\u2019s PhD track in Latin American history. She was also instrumental in creating the University\u2019s Latin American Indigenous Language Learning (LAILL) Program<\/a>, which she endowed with funds from her Mellon Foundation award.<\/p>\n

Projects that focused on building connections with and between indigenous peoples of the Americas were dear to her heart. She was proud that the LAILL program gave Notre Dame students \u201ca window into the indigenous world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most recently, she organized the 2011 Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA 2011)<\/a>, which brought together experts, including many indigenous participants, from across the Americas. At the time of her death she was editing a collection of essays by conference participants.<\/p>\n

Role Model and Mentor<\/strong>
\nStudents and colleagues remember MacCormack not only as an insightful scholar but also as an invaluable and inspirational mentor.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a true role model,\u201d wrote Anne McGinness, a graduate student advisee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will always admire her ability to give energy, time, and wisdom to her students and colleagues,\u201d said Katy Kole, another of MacCormack\u2019s graduate students. \u00a0\u201cEvery time that I spoke with Sabine she filled me with confidence and positive motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"sabine4[1]\"<\/a>Anthropologist Margarita Huayhua of Peru, who served as a Notre Dame Quechua instructor, credits MacCormack with encouraging her doctoral studies. \u201cSabine was one of the most important persons in my life,\u201d she said. \u201cShe believed in my capacities and my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only imagine how many \u2018orphans\u2019 she has left behind\u2014students, colleagues, projects,\u201d wrote Alan Durston, associate professor of history at York University in Toronto and a keynoter at the fall conference. \u201cShe did more for my career than almost anyone, and I wasn\u2019t even her student.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, Beatty recalls the many young historians who have told him it was her Religion in the Andes that inspired them to pursue graduate studies.<\/p>\n

But MacCormack did not focus only on graduate students, taking time each year from her scholarly projects to mentor undergraduates. In 2011\u201312 she was thesis advisor for Joseph VanderZee \u201912, a participant in the Kellogg International Scholars Program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that her example opened my mind to the potential that the life of the researcher and humanist can have in service to communities like the Kellogg Institute, our University, or even entire cultural families\u2014like Quechua-speaking Andeans or the Catholic Church\u2014and not to mention the countless individuals she touched,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI hope I can pay back that legacy in some way through my own life and scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boundless Creative Spirit<\/strong>
\nA colleague recalls the craftsmanship with which MacCormack approached her writing, with each word and sentence receiving the same careful attention. Others remember her hospitality and caring attention, whether in South Bend, Rome, or Cusco.<\/p>\n

MacCormack was also an accomplished painter, carrying her watercolors with her on journeys in the Andes. A MacCormack original graces the cover of On the Wings of Time<\/a>, as well as at least one other volume with the University of Notre Dame Press.<\/p>\n

Click here to view\/sign our tribute page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame press release<\/a><\/p>\n

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