Allyson Poska

Allyson Poska (aposka@umw.edu) received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1992 and joined the Mary Washington faculty the same year. Primarily a social historian, she regularly teaches upper-level courses on the histories of Spain and Latin America and frequently offers seminars dealing with gender issues. Her most recent book is Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia (2006) which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize given by the Sixteenth Century Studies Association (the early modern history professional society) to the best book in early modern history or theology.

In addition to her work at the Department of History and American Studies, Dr. Poska is currently director of UMW’s Women’s and Gender Studies program. For further information, see poska.umwblogs.org.