| Discipline: | Anthropologist |
| Workplaces: | Duke University |
| Thesis Title: | Moon, Sun, and Devil: Inca and Colonial Transformations of Andean Gender Relations |
| Thesis Url: | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/158526 |
| Thesis Year: | 1981 |
| Nationality: | American |
Irene Silverblatt (born 1948) is a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University. Her work revolves mainly around race and religion in Peru during the Spanish Inquisition. Silverblatt earned her PhD at the University of Michigan.[1]
Silverblatt studies the intersection of the categories of race and religion, and how colonial categories based on them affect the contemporary world. She is a leading scholar in Peruvian late modern history and the effects of religion and race in Spanish South America.