Catherine “Cathy” Lindsay Mack, age 81, passed away peacefully on Dec. 18, 2023, at Elderwood in Lake Placid. Cathy was born in Cleveland on April 26, 1
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Ann Wightman, professor of history, emerita, died on March 11 at the age of 70.
Wightman was born in South Euclid, Ohio. She earned her BA from Duke University and her MPhil and PhD from Yale. First arriving at Wesleyan as a visiting instructor in 1979, she remained here for 36 years until her retirement in 2015. Wightman was an accomplished scholar with a focus on Latin America. She felt that she found a “second home” doing research in the Andes, and she sought to capture the history of that region in her first book,
Indigenous Migration and Social Change: The Foresteros of Cuzco, 1570-1720 (Duke University Press, 1990), which received the Herbert E. Bolton Memorial Prize for “the best English language book on any aspect of Latin American history.”