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Professor Regina Harrison Wins Roland H. Bainton Prize

October 14, 2015 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Spanish and Portuguese | Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

Professor Regina Harrison Wins Roland H. Bainton Prize

Professor Regina Harrison wins Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for History or Theology

We congratulate to Regina Harrison, a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for being awarded the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for History or Theology for her book, Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650, University of Texas Press (2014). 

The Roland H. Bainton Book Prizes are named in honor of one of the most irenic church historians of the twentieth century. Four prizes are awarded yearly for the best books written in English dealing with three categories within the time frame of 1450-1660: Art and Music History, History/Theology, Literature, and Reference Works.