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Matthew Restall [email protected]
MatthewRestallwaseducatedatOxford&UCLA.HeisEdwinErleSparksProfessorofLatinAmericanHistoryatPennStateUniversity,&GreenleafDistinguishedChairofLatinAmericanStudiesatTulaneUniversity.Hehaspublishedovertwentybooks&sixtyarticles/essays,focusingonthreeareasofspecialization:colonialMesoamerica,primarilyYucatan&theMaya;AfricansinSpanishAmerica;&theSpanishConquest.HisworkonMayahistoryincludesTheMayaWorld(1997)&MayaConquistador(1998),aswellasco-authoredvolumesMesoamericanVoices(2005),2012andtheEndoftheWorld:TheWesternRootsoftheMayaApocalypse(2011),&hislatestbook,ReturntoIxil(2019).HisbooksonAfro-SpanishAmericaincludetwoeditedvolumes,BeyondBlackandRed(2005)&BlackMexico(2009),plushismonograph,TheBlackMiddle:Africans,Mayas,andSpaniardsinColonialYucatan,whichwontheCLAHprizefor2009’sbestbookonMexicanhistory.HiscontributionstotheNewConquestHistoryincludeSevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest(2003,&infourotherlanguages)InvadingGuatemala(2007,inPennStatePress’LatinAmericanOriginalsseries,ofwhichheisfoundingeditor),&hisco-authoredTheConquistadors(2012).Thenewest,WhenMontezumaMetCortés:ATrueHistoryoftheMeetingthatChangedHistory(2018),wonthe2020ClinePrizeforbestbookonindigenoushistory.RestallhaswrittentwotextbookswithKrisLane,LatinAmericainColonialTimes&TheRiddleofLatinAmerica(both2011).He&LaneareeditorsofCambridgeUniversityPress’sCambridgeLatinAmericanStudiesbookseries.Hewasco-editorofEthnohistory(2007-2016)&isnowco-editorofHAHR(2017-2022).TherecipientofNationalEndowmentfortheHumanitiesandGuggenheimFellowships,aswellasaLeverhulmeVisitingProfessorship,RestallhasheldfellowshipsattheInstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton,andtheJohnCarterBrownLibrary.HewasrecentlyafellowattheLibraryofCongress,attheUSCapitol,andattheUniversityofLondon,andwasPresidentoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory.HehastwonewbooksforthcominginMay2020,titledTheMayaandBlueMoves.
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PROFESSIONALPOSITIONS
EdwinErleSparksProfessorofHistory,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,
since2007(courtesyapptsinAnthropologyandinWomen’s,Gender&SexualityStudies);DirectorofLatinAmericanStudies,since1999
GreenleafDistinguishedChairofLatinAmericanStudies,TulaneUniversity,2020
ProfessorofHistory,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,2004-07(DirectorofGraduateStudiesinHistory,2005-08)
AssociateProfessorofHistory,PennState,1998-2004AssistantProfessorofHistory,BostonCollege,1995-98AssistantProfessorofHistory,SouthwesternUniversity,1993-95Co-editorofthejournalsEthnohistory(2007-16)andHispanicAmerican
HistoricalReview(2017-22)ImmediatePastPresident,AmericanSocietyforEthnohistoryChair,AssociationofFriends&Fellows,JohnCarterBrownLibrary
AWARDS
Year-LongGrantsLeverhulmeVisitingProfessor,SchoolforAdvancedStudy,University
ofLondon,2017-2018(declined)Membership,InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton,2013-14
(acceptedforFall2013)SaundersFellowship,JohnCarterBrownLibrary,BrownUniversity,
2013-14(acceptedforSpring2014)JohnSimonGuggenheimMemorialFoundationFellowship,2003-04NEHFellowship,JohnCarterBrownLibrary,BrownUniv.,2001-02NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities(NEH)Fellowship,1997-98
OtherAwards
KislakFellowship,KlugeCenter,LibraryofCongress,2017CapitolFellowship,USCapitolHistoricalSociety,2017Fellowship,InstitutefortheArtsandHumanities,PennState,2011FacultyScholarAwardforOutstandingAchievement,Artsand
Humanities,PennState,2007ResearchGrant,InstitutefortheArtsandHumanities&RGSO,
PennState,2003Fellowship,GilderLehrmanCenter,YaleUniversity,Fall2001(dec.)NAVEVisitingScholar,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison,Oct1999ResearchGrant,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,1999-2000FacultyFellowship,BostonCollege,Fall1997ResearchIncentiveGrant,BostonCollege,1996-97SpringResearchExpenseGrant,BostonCollege,1996NEH,SummerStipend,1995
History Department, Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA 16802-5501. 814-865-1367.
history.psu.edu/directory/mxr40
@MatthewRestall matthewrestall.com
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EDUCATIONUniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles:PhD,History(1992);MA(1989)OxfordUniversity,England:BA,Honors,1stClass,History(1986)
PUBLICATIONS:BOOKS(2009-2020)[2020]BlueMoves.331/3series.NewYork:Bloomsbury[inpress,outin
May].[2020]TheMaya:AVeryShortIntroduction(withAmaraSolari).Oxford:
OxfordUniversityPress[inpress,outinMay][2020]EntreMayasyEspañoles:AfricanosenelYucatánColonial.
MexicoCity:FondodeCulturaEconómica.Revised&Spanish
editionofTheBlackMiddle[inpress,outinMarch].2019
ReturntoIxil:MayaSocietyinanEighteenth-CenturyYucatec
Town(withMarkChristensen).Boulder:UniversityPressof Colorado.2019
CuandoMoctezumaconocióaCortés.MexicoCity:Taurus.
SpanisheditionofWhenMontezumaMetCortés.2018
WhenMontezumaMetCortés:TheTrueStoryoftheMeeting
thatChangedHistory.*NewYork:Ecco.HarperCollinspaper-
back2019;ChineseeditionwithDookPublishing(Shang-hai),forthcoming2020.
2018
LatinAmericainColonialTimes(withKrisLane).Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.2ndeditionof2011book.
2017 Конкуридаторите.Sofia:Ashur.BulgarianeditionofThe
Conquistadors.2017
ISetteMittiDellaConquistaSpagnola.Palermo:21Editore.
ItalianeditionofSevenMyths.2014
ConquistadeBuenasPalabrasydeGuerra:unavisiónindígena
delaconquista(withMichelOudijk).MexicoCity:UNAM.RevisededitionofLaConquistaIndígena.
2013
LosConquistadores(withFelipeFernández-Armesto).Madrid:AlianzaEditorial.SpanisheditionofTheConquistadors.Reprintedin2018.
2012
TheConquistadors:AVeryShortIntroduction(withFelipeFernández-Armesto).Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.
2011
LatinAmericainColonialTimes(withKrisLane).Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.
2011 TheRiddleofLatinAmerica(withKrisLane).Boston:Cengage.2011
2012andtheEndoftheWorld:TheWesternRootsoftheMaya
Apocalypse(withAmaraSolari).Lanham:Rowman&Littlefield.2009
TheBlackMiddle:Africans,Mayas,andSpaniardsinColonial
Yucatan.**Stanford:StanfordUniversityPress.2009
BlackMexico:RaceandSocietyfromColonialtoModernTimes
(editor,withBenVinsonIII).Diálogosseries.Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress.
*WinneroftheCLAHHowardF.MemorialPrizeforBestBookonIndigenousHistoryin2018-19.
**WinneroftheCLAHPrizeforBestBookonMexicanHistoryin2009.
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PUBLICATIONS:BOOKS(1995-2008)2008
LaConquistaIndígenadeMesoamérica:ElcasodeDon
GonzaloMazatzinMoctezuma(withMichelOudijk).Puebla,Mexico:SecretaríadeCulturadelGobiernodelEstadodePuebla.
2007
InvadingGuatemala:Spanish,Nahua,andMayaAccountsoftheConquestWars(withFlorineAsselbergs).LatinAmericanOriginals#2.UniversityPark:PennStateUniversityPress.
2006
Setemitosdaconquistaespanhola.RiodeJaneiro:CivilizaçãoBrasileira.PortugueseeditionofSevenMyths.
2005
MesoamericanVoices:Native-LanguageWritingsfromCentralMexico,Oaxaca,Yucatan,andGuatemala(editor,withLisaSousaandKevinTerraciano).Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.
2005
BeyondBlackandRed:African-NativeRelationsinColonialLatinAmerica(editor).Diálogosseries.Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress.
2005
Lossietemitosdelaconquistaespañola.Barcelona:Paidós(PaidósOrígenes#46).SpanisheditionofSevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.
2003
SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.*NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.Paperback2004.
2001
MayaSurvivalism(ed.,withUeliHostettler).MarktSchwaben,Germany:VerlagAntonSaurwein(ActaMesoamericanaNo.12).
1998 MayaConquistador.Boston:BeaconPress.Paperback1999.1998
DeadGiveaways:IndigenousTestamentsofColonial
MesoamericaandtheAndes(editor,withSusanKellogg).SaltLakeCity:UniversityofUtahPress.
1997
TheMayaWorld:YucatecCultureandSociety,1550-1850.Stanford:StanfordUniversityPress.Paperbacked.1999.
1995
LifeandDeathinaMayaCommunity:TheIxilTestamentsofthe1760s.Lancaster,CA:Labyrinthos.
*ListedasoneofthetwelveBestHistoryBooksof2003byTheEconomist(Dec6-12,2003,p.76).
PUBLICATIONS:ARTICLES&ESSAYS
JournalArticles[2020]“MayaMilitia:TheGovernmentandDefenseofaColonial
YucatecTown”(withMarkChristensen),inColonialLatin
AmericanReview29:1(April,forthcoming)2020
“TheTroublewith‘America’,”inEthnohistory67:1(January),
1-282019
“Creating‘Belize’:theMappingandNamingHistoryofaLiminal
Locale,”inTerraeIncognitae51:1(February),5-352017
“DroughtanditsDemographicEffectsintheMayaLowlands”
(2ndauthor,withJulieA.Hoggarth,JamesWood,andDouglas
J.Kennett),inCurrentAnthropology58:1(February),82-113
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PUBLICATIONS:ARTICLES&ESSAYS(cont.)2016
“Moses,Caesar,Hero,Anti-Hero:thePosthumousFacesof
HernandoCortés,”inLeidschrift31:2(May),33-582014
“CrossingtoSafety?FrontierFlightinEighteenth-Century
BelizeandYucatan,”inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview,94:3(August),381-419
2013
“Cook’sPassage:AnEnglishSpyintheYucatan,”inWorldHistoryConnected,10:1(February)(worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/)
2012
“TheNewConquestHistory,”inHistoryCompass,vol.10(history-compass.com/caribbean-latin-america)
2010
“TheMysteriousandtheInvisible:WritingHistoryInandOfColonialYucatan,”inAncientMesoamerica,21:2(Fall),393-400(inaspecialsectiononMayaArchaeologyandSocialMemory,
eds.GregBorgstedeandCharlesGolden,309-414) 2010
“IndigenousViewsoftheConquestofGuatemala:Unraveling
WrittenAccountsbyNahuasandMayas,”inMesoamérica52(June)
2004
“MayaEthnogenesis,”inJournalofLatinAmericanAnthropology,9:1(Spring),64-89
2003
“AHistoryoftheNewPhilologyandtheNewPhilologyinHistory,"inLatinAmericanResearchReview,38:1(February),113-34
2002
“ARe-evaluationoftheAuthenticityofFrayDiegodeLanda’sRelacióndelascosasdeYucatán”(withJohnF.Chuchiak),inEthnohistory,49:3(Summer),651-69
2001
“Filologíayetnohistoria:Unabrevehistoriadela‘nuevafilología’enNorteamérica,”inDesacatos:RevistadeAntropologíaSocial7(Autumn),85-102
2000
“Otredadyambigüedad:laspercepcionesquelosespañolesylosmayasteníandelosafricanosenelYucatáncolonial,”inSignosHistóricos,2:4(July-December),15-38
2000
“BlackConquistadors:ArmedAfricansinColonialSpanishAmerica,”inTheAmericas,57:2(October),171-205
2000
(withJaneLanders)“TheAfricanExperienceinEarlySpanishAmerica”(guesteditors’introduction),inTheAmericas,57:2(October2000),167-70
1998
"TheTiesthatBind:SocialCohesionandtheYucatecMayaFamily,"inTheJournalofFamilyHistory,23:4(October),355-81(shortlistedforCLAHPrizeforbestjournalarticleonLatinAmericanhistoryin1998)
1997
"HeirstotheHieroglyphs:IndigenousLiteracyinColonialMesoamerica,"inTheAmericas,54:2(October),239-67
1995
"'Hewisheditinvain':SubordinationandResistanceAmongMayaWomeninColonialYucatan,"inEthnohistory,42:4(Fall),577-94
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InvitedFilm,Television,andRadioAppearances2019
ThreeseparateNPRinterviews,withinitialbroadcastsNov-
Dec(e.g.“500YearsLater,theSpanishConquestofMexicoisStillBeingDebated,”Nov10,onNPR’sWeekendEdition).
2016
GuestonMelvynBragg’sInOurTime,episodeon“TheMaya,”broadcastliveonBBCRadio4,3/10
2014
InterviewsegmentsforBBCRadio4series,Debt,episodeontheEarlyModernWorld,firstbroadcastSpring2015
2013 Interviewsegmentsfor“TheNewWorld”episodeoftheseries
America:FactsvsFiction,filmedinPhiladelphia,first
broadcastonTheMilitaryChannel,8/132011
Interviewsegmentabout2012andtheEndoftheWorld(with
AmaraSolari)onWPSX(radio),firstbroadcast2/112007
InterviewsegmentsinAztecsRevealed,adocumentaryfilmby
FireflyProductions;segmentsfilmedinMexicoCity7/07;firstbroadcastintheUK(Channel5)9/07,intheUS(PBS)11/07asAztecMassacre,withDVDrelease12/07
2005 SegmentsonCortésandPizarrofor“GlobalView,”onthe
HistoryChannelInternational,filmedinNewYorkCity,10/05
&11/05;firstbroadcast11/052003
InterviewonSevenMythsoftheSpanishConqueston“Take
Note,”WPSX(television);firstbroadcast10/03;available
onlineatrestall.takenote.psu.edu
Newspaper&MagazineArticles(invited,asauthor)
2017 “TheAztecs:ASurpriseEnding?”inTheHistorian134
(Summer),12-19(www.history.org.uk/historian)2016
“MontezumaSurrendersintheCapitol,”inTheCapitolDome
53:2(Fall),2-102016 “LaContradictoriaInmortalidaddeHernánCortés,”in
LetrasLibres(December),16-222013
“Mirarseenelespejodelotro:LaConquistadeMéxicoyThe
IndianQueen,”inLaRevistadelReal17(Sept-Nov),6
(www.teatro-real.com/assets)2011
“Is2012theEndoftheWorldasWeKnowit?”(withAmara
Solari)inTheWashingtonPost,December30
(www.washingtonpost.com/opinions)2004
“TheSpanishConquestRevisited,”inHistoricallySpeaking
V:5(May/June),2-5
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ArticlesasBookChapters
n.d.
“AHistoryofViolenceandIndigeneity:PinkerandtheNativeAmericas,”inTheDarkerAngelsofOurNature:History,Violence,andtheStevenPinkerControversy,PhilipDwyerandMichaelS.Micale,eds.(volumeunderreview,forthcoming2021)
n.d.
“TheLandaConundrum,”inTheFranciscansinMexico:FiveCenturiesofCulturalInfluence,ThomasCohen,JayHarrison,andDavidRexGalindo,eds.Berkeley:AmericanAcademyofFranciscanHistory(forthcoming2020or2021)
[2020]“LegitimizedViolenceinColonialSpanishAmerica,”inTheCambridgeWorldHistory
ofViolence(CWHoV),Vol.3(PhilipDwyer,ed.,CarolinePennock,vol.ed.).
Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress(forthcomingMarch)[2020]“TheWarsofInvasionintheCaribbeanandMesoamerica,1492-1547,”inCWHoV,
Vol.3(PhilipDwyer,ed.,CarolinePennock,vol.ed.).Cambridge:Cambridge
UniversityPress(forthcomingMarch)[2020]“Fear,Wonder,andAbsence:OurDistortedViewofMoctezuma’sTenochtitlan,”inA
CompaniontoViceregalMexicoCity,LuisJ.GordoPelázandJohnLópez,eds.Leiden:
Brill(forthcomingSpring)2019
“’Therewasatimewhenwewerefriends’:LasCasasandCortésasMonstrousDoubles
oftheConquestEra,”inBartolomédelasCasas,OP:History,Philosophy,andTheologyin
theAgeofEuropeanExpansion,DavidT.OriqueandRadyRoldán-Figueroa,eds.
Leiden:Brill,58-70.2017
“MayaEthnogenesisandGroupIdentityinYucatan,1500-1900”(withWolfgang
Gabbert),in“TheOnlyTruePeople”:LinkingMayaIdentitiesPastandPresent,BethanyJ.
MyersandLisaLeCount,eds.Boulder:UniversityPressofColorado,91-1302015
“TheIrreplaceableWindow:ReflectionsontheStudyofIndigenousWills”(withSusan
Kellogg),inDeadGiveawaysII:NativeWillsfromtheColonialAmericas,eds.Mark
ChristensenandJonathanTruitt.SaltLakeCity:UniversityofUtahPress,242-572015
“TheAmericasintheAgeofIndigenousEmpires,”inTheCambridgeWorldHistory,
Vol.VI:TheConstructionofaGlobalWorld,1400-1800,Part1,MerryWiesner-Hanks
&SanjaySubrahmanyam,eds.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,pp.210-422014
“Invasion:TheMayaatWar,1520s-1540s,”inEmbattledBodies,EmbattledPlaces:
Conflict,Conquest,andthePerformanceofWarinPre-ColumbianAmerica,Andrew
SchererandJohnVerano,eds.Washington,DC:DumbartonOaks,pp.93-1172013
“GasparAntonioChi:BridgingtheConquestofYucatán,”inTheHumanTraditionin
ColonialLatinAmerica,2nded.,ed.KennethJ.Andrien.Lanham,MD:Rowman&
Littlefield,pp.13-31[revisedversionof2002itemlistedbelow]2012
“Disciplesof‘Nich-ness’,”inCodexNicholson,BrianDervinDillonandMatthewA.Boxt,
eds.CostaMesa:PacificCoastArchaeologicalSocietyOccasionalPapers#4,pp.104-062012
“Consideracionesfinales.DesenterrandolaColoniaTempranaenCampeche,”in
Orígenesdelasociedadcampechana:VidaymuerteenlaciudaddeCampechedurantelossiglosXVIyXVII,VeraTieslerandPilarZabala,eds.MexicoCity:UNAM,pp.241-57
2011
“ImperialRivalries:TheHeartoftheMatter,”inMappingLatinAmerica,JordanaDymandKarlOffen,eds.Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,pp.79-83
2011
“TheGodsReturn:ConquestandConquestSociety”(withRobertSchwaller),inA
CompaniontoMexicanHistoryandCulture,WilliamH.Beezley,ed.Oxford:Wiley-
Blackwell,pp.195-2082010
“FinalConsiderations:UnearthingColonialCampeche,”inNatives,Europeans,and
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AfricansinColonialCampeche:HistoryandArchaeology,VeraTiesler,PilarZabala,&
AndreaCucina,eds.Gainesville:UniversityPressofFlorida,pp.194-2062010
“SourcesfortheEthnohistoryandAfrohistoryofPostconquestYucatan,”inSourcesand
MethodsfortheStudyofPostconquestMesoamericanEthnohistory,JamesLockhart,Lisa
Sousa,andStephanieWood,eds.WiredHumanitiesProject,UniversityofOregon
(whp.uoregon.edu/Lockhart/index.html)2009
“LoveMagicanditsMeaningsinSeventeenth-CenturyMexicoandYucatan”(withJoan
Bristol),inBlackMexico,BenVinsonIIIandMatthewRestall,eds.Albuquerque:
UniversityofNewMexicoPress,pp.155-792008
“SpanishCreationoftheConquestofMexico,”inInvasionandTransformation:
InterdisciplinaryPerspectivesontheConquestofMexico,ed.RebeccaP.BrienenandMargaretJackson.Boulder:UniversityPressofColorado,pp.93-102
2007
“MesoamericanConquistadorsintheSixteenthCentury”(withMichelOudijk),inIndianConquistadors:IndigenousAlliesintheConquestofMesoamerica,eds.MichelOudijkandLauraMatthew.Norman:UniversityofOklahomaPress,pp.28-64
2006
“Manuel’sWorlds:BlackYucatanandtheColonialCaribbean,”inSlaves,Subjects,andSubversives:BlacksinColonialLatinAmerica,JaneG.LandersandBarryM.Robinson,eds.Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress,pp.147-74
2006
“OriginandMyth:Ethnicity,Class,andChibalinPostclassicandColonialYucatan,”inNuevasperspectivassobrelageografíapolíticadelosmayas,eds.TsubasaOkoshiHarada,LorraineWilliams-Beck,andAnaLuisaIzquierdo.MexicoCityandCampeche:UNAM,UAC,andFAMSI,pp.269-89
2005
“Foreword”toThePostclassictoSpanish-EraTransitioninMesoamerica,SusanKepecsandRaniAlexander,eds.Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress
2005
“Conquistadoresnegros:africanosarmadosenlatempranaHispanoamérica,”inPautasdeConvivenciaÉtnicaenlaAméricaLatinaColonial,ed.JuanManueldelaSernaHerrera.MexicoCity:UNAMandtheGuanajuatoStateGovernment,pp.19-72
2005
“BlackSlaves,RedPaint,”and“BlackSoldiers,NativeSoldiers:MeaningsofMilitaryServiceintheSpanishAmericanColonies”(withBenVinsonIII),inBeyondBlackandRed:African-NativeRelationsinColonialLatinAmerica,ed.MatthewRestall.Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress,pp.1-13and15-52
2005
“WolvesandSheep?Black-MayaRelationsinColonialGuatemalaandYucatan”(withChristopherH.Lutz),inBeyondBlackandRed:African-NativeRelationsinColonialLatinAmerica,ed.MatthewRestall.Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress,pp.185-221.ReprintedinAfrodescendientesyesclavitudes#12(August2011)
2004
“EtnogénesisMaya,”inEstrategiasIdentitarias:EducaciónylaAntropologíaHistóricaenYucatán,eds.JuanCastilloCocomandQuetzilE.Castañeda.MexicoCity:UniversidadPedagógicaNacional,OSEA,&SEP,pp.33-60
2002
“TheRenaissanceWorldfromtheWest:SpanishAmericaandthe‘Real’Renaissance,”inACompaniontotheWorldsoftheRenaissance,ed.GuidoRuggiero,pp.70-86.Oxford:Blackwell
2002
“GasparAntonioChi:BridgingtheConquestofYucatan,”inTheHumanTraditioninColonialLatinAmerica,ed.KennethJ.Andrien.Wilmington:ScholarlyResources,pp.6-21
2001
“LaFalaciadelaLibertad:LaExperienciaAfro-YucatecaenlaEdaddeEsclavitud,”inRutasdelaEsclavitudenÁfricayAméricaLatina,ed.RinaCáceres.SanJosé:EditorialdelaUniversidaddeCostaRica,pp.289-304
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2001
“ThePeopleofthePatio:EthnohistoricalEvidenceofYucatecMayaRoyalCourts,”inRoyalCourtsoftheAncientMaya:Volume2,eds.TakeshiInomataandStephenHouston.Boulder:WestviewPress,pp.335-90
2001
“TheMeaningsandMechanicsofMayaSurvivalism”(withUeliHostettler)and“TheJanusFaceofMayaIdentity,”inMayaSurvivalism,eds.UeliHostettlerandMatthewRestall.MarktSchwaben,Germany:VerlagAntonSaurwein,pp.ix-xivand15-23
2000
"TheTellingofTales:SixYucatecMayaCommunitiesandTheirSpanishPriest,"inColonialLives:DocumentsonLatinAmericanHistory,1550-1850,eds.GeofSpurlingandRichardBoyer.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,pp.27-50
1999
“CalkiníyelCaminoReal:Unpueblomayaylavidaporlacarreteradelacolonia,1541-1821,”inCalkiní:unahistoriacompartida,ed.LorraineWilliams-Beck.Calkiní,Camp.:AyuntamientodeCalkiní,pp.60-77
1998
"InterculturationandtheIndigenousTestamentinColonialYucatan,"inDeadGiveaways:IndigenousTestamentsofColonialMesoamericaandtheAndes,eds.SusanKelloggandMatthewRestall.SaltLakeCity:UniversityofUtahPress,pp.141-62
1997
"Persistenciaculturalmaya:laevidenciadedocumentosnotarialesenelYucatáncolonial,"inPersistenciaculturalentrelosmayasfrentealcambioylamodernidad,eds.RamónArzápaloMarínandRuthGubler.Mérida,Yucatán:UniversidadAutónomadeYucatán,pp.41-54
1997
"Work,Marriage,andStatus:MayaWomenofColonialYucatan”(withMartaEspejo-PonceHunt),inIndianWomenofEarlyMexico,eds.SusanSchroeder,StephanieWood,andRobertHaskett.Norman:UniversityofOklahomaPress,pp.231-52
1995
"'TheDocumentShallBeSeen':YucatecMayaLiteracy,"in'ChippingAwayonEarth':PrehispanicandColonialNahuaStudiesinHonorofArthurJ.O.AndersonandCharlesE.Dibble,ed.EloiseQuiñones-Keber.Lancaster,CA:Labyrinthos,pp.119-130
1995
"YucatecMayaResponsesto'Modernization':theColonialPeriod,"inTheFragmentedPresent:MesoamericanSocietiesFacingModernization,eds.RuthGublerandUeliHostettler.Möckmühl,Germany:VerlagvonFlemming,pp.53-62
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2015
JamesLockhart(1933-2014),(withPeteSigal,StephanieWood,andCaterina
Pizzigoni)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview95:2(May),335-392014
JamesLockhart(1933-2014),inTheAmericas,70:4(April),731-332012
NeilL.Whitehead(1956-2012),(withMichaelHarkin)inEthnohistory,59:2(Spring)
ReviewEssays2016
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retrospective,”inJournalofWorldHistory27:3(May)2007
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series3,54:1(January),183-941999
“Los‘conquistadoresmayas’denuestrosdías:idiomayconflictoétnicoenYucatány
Petén,”inMesoamérica,37(June),213-231998
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LatinAmericanResearchReview,33:2(Spring),207-201995
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EncyclopediaEssaysandBibliographies
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“ConquestofMexicoandPeru”(withScottDoebler)[9kwords],inOxford
BibliographiesOnline:MilitaryHistory.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress
(oxfordbibliographiesonline.com)(forthcoming)2016
“ManuelBolio”and“SebastiánToral”[1kwordseach],inDictionaryofCaribbean
andAfro-LatinAmericanBiography,eds.HenryLouisGates,Jr.,andFranklinKnight.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress
2016
“DiegodeLandaandtheRelacióndelascosasdeYucatán”[1kwords](withAmara
Solari),inEncylopediaoftheAncientMaya,ed.WalterR.T.Witschey.Lanham:
Rowman&Littlefield,207-102013
“TheNewConquestHistoryandtheNewPhilologyinColonialMesoamerica”(with
RebekahMartin)[9kwords],inOxfordBibliographiesOnline:LatinAmericanStudies.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress(oxfordbibliographiesonline.com)
2011
“Sixteenth-CenturyNewSpain”[9kwords],inOxfordBibliographiesOnline:AtlanticHistory.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress(oxfordbibliographiesonline.com)
2008
“HernandoCortés”[1kwords],inGreatMilitaryLeadersandTheirCampaigns,ed.JeremyBlack.London:Thames&Hudson,98-101
2007
“MesoamericanReligion:ColonialCultures”(withVeronicaGutiérrez)[7,500words],inEncyclopediaofReligion,2nded.,ed.LindsayJones.NewYork:MacmillanReference
2007
“SanLorenzodelosNegros”[800words]and“JuanGarrido”[650words]inEncyclopediaofAfrican-AmericanCultureandHistory:TheBlackExperienceintheAmericas.NewYork:MacmillanReference
2006
“AztecEmpire”[1800words],inEncyclopediaofWesternColonialismsince1450,ed.ThomasBenjamin.3vols.Detroit:MacmillanReference
2006
“Conquistadors”[2kwords],“Cabildo”[500words],and“Cah”[500words]inEncyclopediaofTransatlanticRelations,ed.MichaelFrancis.Oxford:ABC-Clio
2001
“Cabildo”[1kwords]and“Periodicals”(withAlexanderChristensen)[2500words],inTheOxfordEncyclopediaofMesoamericanCultures.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress
1998
"IndigenousPhilologies"[5kwords]and"DiegodeLanda"[1kwords],inEncyclopedia
ofMexico:History,Society,andCulture,ed.MichaelWerner.Chicago:FitzroyDearborn
BookReviews2020
“TheHumansBehindtheSacrifice”:CamillaTownsend,FifthSun:ANewHistoryof
theAztecs(Oxford,2019),inHistoryToday(April),96-972019
CarrieGibson,ElNorte:TheEpicandForgottenStoryofHispanicNorthAmerica
(NewYork&London,2019),inTimesLiterarySupplement(December6)2019
DennisHerrick,Esteban:TheAfricanSlaveWhoExploredAmerica(Albuquerque,
2018),inJournalofArizonaHistory,60:2,81-832018
CamillaTownsend,AnnalsofNativeAmerica:HowtheNahuasofColonialMexico
KeptTheirHistoryAlive(NewYork,2017),inReviewsinHistory,review#2289(Oct)2018
DavidKazanjian,ImprovingLifeintheNineteenthCenturyWorld(Durham,2016),
inBulletinofLatinAmericanResearch37:4(September),500-12018
RossHassig,PolygamyandtheRiseandDemiseoftheAztecEmpire(Albuquerque,
2016),inBulletinofLatinAmericanResearch37:3(July),356-58
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2017
KathleenAnnMyers,IntheShadowofCortés:ConversationsAlongtheRouteof
Conquest(Tucson,2015),inBulletinofLatinAmericanResearch2016
PatrickThomasHajovsky,OnTheLipsofOthers:Moteuczoma’sFameinAztec
MonumentsandRituals(Austin,2015)inEthnohistory63:4,737-382016
ColinMacLachlan,ImperialismandtheOriginsofMexicanCulture(Cambridge,MA,
2015)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview96:1(February),155-562015
“AsaBloke”:RobertGoodwin,Spain(London,2015),inTimesLiterarySupplement
No.5876(Nov13),292015
SergioQuezada,MayaLordsandLordship:TheFormationofColonialSocietyin
Yucatán,1350-1600(Norman,2014)inTheAmericas72:4,658-602015
SylviaSellers-García,DistanceandDocumentsattheSpanishEmpire’sPeriphery
(Stanford,2014)inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies47:4,844-452015
RobertW.Patch,IndiansandthePoliticalEconomyofColonialCentralAmerica,
1670-1810(Norman,2013),inAmericanIndianCulture&ResearchJournal39:1,125-27
2015
MacduffEverton,TheModernMaya:IncidentsofTravelandFriendshipinYucatán(Austin,2012),inEthnohistory
2014
FelipeFernández-Armesto,OurAmerica:AHispanicHistoryoftheUnitedStates(NewYork,2014),inJournalofEarlyAmericanHistory4,277-79
2014
ChristianDuverger,CrónicadelaEternidad:¿QuiénescribiólaHistoriaveraderadelaconquistadelaNuevaEspaña?(Madrid,2013),inMesoamérica
2013
ElizabethGraham,MayaChristiansandTheirChurchesinSixteenth-CenturyBelize(Gainesville,2011),inWinterthurPortfolio47:4,300-1
2013
JohnF.Chuchiak,TheInquisitioninNewSpain,1536-1820:ADocumentaryHistory(Baltimore,2012)andLuisCorteguera,DeathbyEffigy:ACasefromtheMexicanInquisition(Philadelphia,2012),inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies45,823-24
2013
LauraA.Lewis,ChocolateandCornFlour:History,Race,andPlaceintheMakingof“Black”Mexico(Durham,2012),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview93:4(Nov),716-17
2012
MatthewO’Hara,AFlockDivided:Race,Religion,andPoliticsinMexico,1749-1857(Duke,2010),inJournalofSocialHistory45:3(April)
2011
IdaAltman,TheWarforMexico’sWest:IndiansandSpaniardsinNewGalicia,1524-1550(Albuquerque,2010),inItinerario35:3(December),128-29
2011
WilliamF.Hanks,ConvertingWords:MayaintheAgeoftheCross(Berkeley,2010),inAnthropologicalLinguistics53:1(Spring),80-81
2011
TimothyW.Knowlton,MayaCreationMyths:WordsandWorldsoftheChilamBalam(Boulder,2010),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview91:4(Nov),691-92
2011
PatriciaLopesDon,BonfiresofCulture:Franciscans,IndigenousLeaders,andInquisitioninEarlyMexico,1524-1540(Norman,2010),inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies43:4(November),800-1
2011
DennisTedlock,2000YearsofMayanLiterature(Berkeley,2010)inEthnohistory58:4(Fall),751-53
2011
HughThomas,TheGoldenAge:TheSpanishEmpireofCharlesV(AllenLane,2010),inTheTimesLiterarySupplement,No.5644(June3),9
2010
LeslieCecilandTimothyPugh,eds.,MayaWorldviewsatConquest(Boulder,2009),inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies42:4(November),846-47
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2010
BernardodeVargasMachuca,TheIndianMilitiaandDescriptionoftheIndies,KrisLane,ed.,TimothyF.Johnson,trans.(Durham,2008)inEstudiosInterdisciplinariosdeAmericaLatinayelCaribe21:2(July-Dec.)
2010
(withRobertSchwaller)AndrewB.FisherandMatthewD.O’Hara,eds.,ImperialSubjects:RaceandIdentityinColonialLatinAmerica(Durham,2009),inSocialHistory35:2(May),10-11
2010
BernalDíazdelCastillo,TheHistoryoftheConquestofNewSpain,DavídCarrasco,ed.(Albuquerque,2008)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview(August),526-27
2010
YannaYannakakis,TheArtofBeingIn-Between:NativeIntermediaries,IndianIdentity,andLocalRuleinColonialOaxaca(Durham,2008),inSocialHistory35:1(February),120-21
2009
KathleenAnnMyers,FernándezdeOviedo’sChronicleofAmerica:ANewHistoryforaNewWorld(Austin,2007)inAmericanHistoricalReview114:4(October),1138
2009
JorgeCañizares-Esguerra,PuritanConquistadors:IberianizingtheAtlantic,1550-1700(Stanford,2006),inColonialLatinAmericanReview
2009
DavídCarrascoandScottSessions,eds.,Cave,City,andEagle’sNest:AnInterpretiveJourneythroughtheMapadeCuauhtinchanNo.2(Albuquerque,2007),inTheSixteenthCenturyJournal
2009
(withMarkChristensen)JohnD.Early,TheMayaandCatholicism:AnEncounterofWorldviews(Gainesville,2006)inStudiesinReligion/SciencesReligieuses
2008
DavidAbulafia,TheDiscoveryofMankind:AtlanticEncountersintheAgeofColumbus(NewHaven,2008),inCentreDailyTimes(October26),C4
2008
JudithM.MaxwellandRobertM.HillII,KaqchikelChronicles:TheDefinitiveEdition(Austin,2006)inMesoamérica50(Jan-Dec),235-37[inSpanish]
2008
AllenJ.Christenson,trans.anded.,PopolVuh:SacredBookoftheAncientMaya.ElectronicLibrary(Provo,2007),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview(November)
2007
CamillaTownsend,Malintzin’sChoices:AnIndianWomanintheConquestofMexico(Albuquerque,2006)inTheAmericas64:2(October),278-79
2007
JudithM.MaxwellandRobertM.HillII,KaqchikelChronicles:TheDefinitiveEdition(Austin,2006)inEthnohistory54:4(Fall),781-83
2006
GabrielaSolísRobleda,Bajoelsignodelacompulsión:Eltrabajoforzosoindígenaenelsistemacolonialyucateco,1540-1730(MexicoCity,2003)andFlorineG.L.Asselbergs,ConqueredConquistadors:TheLienzodeQuauhquechollan:ANahuavisionoftheconquestofGuatemala(Leiden,2004)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview86:2(May),366-69
2006
LauraCasoBarrera,Caminosenlaselva:migración,comercioyresistencia.Mayasyucatecoseitzaes,siglosXVII-XIX(MexicoCity,2002),andRobertW.Patch,MayaRevoltandRevolutionintheEighteenthCentury(Armonk&London,2002),inColonialLatinAmericanReview
2006
DonaldE.Chipman,Moctezuma’sChildren:AztecRoyaltyUnderSpanishRule,1520-1700(Austin,2005)inTheSixteenthCenturyJournal37:1(Spring),924-25
2005
IlonaKatzew,CastaPainting;ImagesofRaceinEighteenth-CenturyMexico(NewHaven,2004)inTheAmericas62:1(July),122-23
2005
FelipeFernández-Armesto,TheAmericas:AHemisphericHistory(NewYork,2003)inItinerario29:2,103-5
2005
IanGraham,AlfredMaudslayandtheMaya:ABiography(Norman,2002),inTheAmericas61:4(April),707-8
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SteveGlassman,OntheTrailoftheMayaExplorer:TracingtheEpicJourneyofJohnLloydStephens(Tuscaloosa,2003)inStudiesinTravelWriting9:1,107-9
2004
LizaBakewellandByronHamann,Mesolore:ExploringMesoamericanCulture(CD-ROM,2001),inTheAmericas61:2(October),342-43
2004
IraBerlin,GenerationsofCaptivity:AHistoryofAfrican-AmericanSlaves(Cambridge,MA,2003),inItinerario28:2,185-87
2004
VictoriaR.BrickerandHelga-MariaMiram,AnEncounterofTwoWorlds:TheBookofChilamBalamofKaua(NewOrleans,2002)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview(November)
2004
DennisTedlock,RabinalAchi:AMayanDramaofWarandSacrifice(Oxford,2003),inJournalofLatinAmericanAnthropology9:2(Fall),467-68
2004
MagaliM.Carrera,ImaginingIdentityinNewSpain:Race,Lineage,andtheColonialBodyinPortraitureandCastaPaintings(Austin,2003),inColonialLatinAmericanReview13:1
2003
MaxHarris,Aztecs,Moors,andChristians:FestivalsofReconquestinMexicoandSpain(Austin,2000),inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies35,867-68
2003
H.B.Nicholson,TopiltzinQuetzalcoatl:TheOnceandFutureLordoftheToltecs(Boulder,2001),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview83:4(November),750-51
2003
SergioQuezada,BrevehistoriadeYucatán(Mex.Cy.,2001),inMesoamérica45,263-642003
AlexD.Krieger,WeCameNakedandBarefoot:TheJourneyofCabezadeVacaacross
NorthAmerica(Austin,2003),onH-NET2003
MichaelD.CoeandMarkVanStone,ReadingtheMayaGlyphs(London,2001),inThe
Historian65:5,1187-882003
BeverlyC.McMillan,CaptivePassage:TheTransatlanticSlaveTradeandtheMakingof
theAmericas(Washington,DC,2002),inItinerario27:1,128-292003
SabineMund,Lesrapportscomplexesdel’”HistoriaVerdadera”deBernalDíazavecla
verité(Brussels,2001),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview83:2(May),392-932002
LawrenceH.Feldman,ed.,LostShores,ForgottenPeoples:SpanishExplorationsofthe
SouthEastMayaLowlands(Durham,2000),inTheHistorian65:1,167-682002
StephenHouston,etal,eds.,TheDeciphermentofAncientMayaWriting(Norman,
2001),inTheAmericas59:1(July)2002
TerryRugeley,OfWondersandWiseMen:ReligionandPopularCulturesinSoutheast
Mexico,1800-1876(Austin,2001),inTheAmericas58:3(January),490-912001
RosemaryA.Joyce,GenderandPowerinPrehispanicMesoamerica(Austin,2000),in
ColonialLatinAmericanHistoricalReview10:1(Winter),154-562001
NicholasGriffithsandFernandoCervantes,eds.,SpiritualEncounters:Interactions
betweenChristianityandnativereligionsincolonialAmerica(Birmingham,UK,1999)inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies33,876-77
2001
RichardE.W.AdamsandMurdoJ.MacLeod,TheCambridgeHistoryoftheNativePeoplesoftheAmericas,VolumeII:Mesoamerica,Part2(Cambridge,2000),“featuredreview”inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview81:2(May),351-55
2001
RolenaAdornoandPatrickCharlesPautz,eds.,AlvarNúñezCabezadeVaca:HisAccount,HisLife,andtheExpeditionofPánfilodeNarváez(Lincoln,1999)inTheAmericas57:4(April),591-93
2000
RichardE.W.AdamsandMurdoJ.MacLeod,TheCambridgeHistoryoftheNativePeoplesoftheAmericas,VolumeII:Mesoamerica,Part2(Cambridge,2000)inLatinAmericanAntiquity11:4(December)
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PedrodeCiezadeLeón,TheDiscoveryandConquestofPeru:ChroniclesoftheNewWorldEncounter,AlexandraParmaCookandNobleDavidCook,eds.(Durham,1998)inEthnohistory47:3-4(Summer-Fall),838-40
1999
RobertS.Carlsen,TheWarfortheHeartandSoulofaHighlandMayaTown(Austin,1997),andBettyBerniceFaust,MexicanRuralDevelopmentandthePlumedSerpent:TechnologyandMayaCosmologyintheTropicalForestofCampeche,Mexico(Westport,1998)inAmericanEthnologist,26:1
1998
FrederickW.Lange,ed.,PathstoCentralAmericanPrehistory(Niwot,1996),inColonialLatinAmericanHistoricalReview,7:1(Winter),65-66
1998
RobertM.Carmack,RebelsofHighlandGuatemala:TheQuiché-MayasofMomostenango(Norman,1995),inEthnohistory,45:1(Winter),154-55
1998
RobertJ.Sharer,DailyLifeinMayaCivilization(Westport,1996),andTheAncientMaya:FifthEdition(Stanford,1994),inTheAmericas,54:3(January),443-45
1998
KarenDakinandChristopherH.Lutz,NuestroPesar,nuestroaflicción:memoriasenlenguaNáhuatlenviadasaFelipeIIporindígenasdelvalledeGuatemalahacia1572(MexicoCity,1996),inTheAmericas,54:3(Jan.),447-48
1997
WilliamB.Taylor,MagistratesoftheSacred:PriestsandParishionersinEighteenth-CenturyMexico(Stanford,1996),inJournalofChurch&State,39:3(Summer),592-93
1997
LouiseM.Burkhart,HolyWednesday:ANahuaDramafromEarlyColonialMexico(Philadelphia,1996),inTheAmericas,53:3(January),439-40
1996
ElizabethHillBooneandWalterD.Mignolo,eds.,WritingWithoutWords:AlternativeLiteraciesinMesoamerica&theAndes(Durham,1994),inEthnohistory,43:2(Spring),350-52
1995
JudithM.MaxwellandCraigA.Hanson,OftheMannersofSpeakingThattheOldOnesHad:TheMetaphorsofAndrésdeOlmosIntheTULALManuscript(SaltLakeCity,1992),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview75:1(February),99-100
1994
FloraS.ClancyandPeterD.Harrison,eds.,VisionandRevisioninMayaStudies(Albuquerque,1990),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview74:3(Aug.),508-9
1993
FranceScholes,EleanorAdams,andFrankComparato,eds.,DocumentsRelatingtotheMironesExpeditiontotheInteriorofYucatan,1621-1624(CulverCity,1991)andMaryH.Preuss,ed.,Past,Present,andFuture:SelectedPapersonLatinAmericanIndianLiteratures(CulverCity,1991),inEthnohistory,40:2(Spring),332-34
Dissertation
“TheWorldoftheCah:PostconquestYucatecMayaSociety.”Ph.D.dissertation,Universityof
California,LosAngeles,1992
GraduateSchoolPublications(withPeteSigal)“'Maytheynotbefornicatorsequaltothesepriests':PostconquestYucatec
MayaSexualAttitudes.”IndigenousWritingintheSpanishIndies(UCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.12):91-121,1993
(withKevinTerraciano)“IndigenousWritinginColonialMexico.”IndigenousWritingintheSpanishIndies(UCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.12):8-28,1993
“YaxkukulRevisited:DatingandCategorizingaControversialMayaLandDocument.”UCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.11:114-130,1991
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“TheHeartToRule:ElectionDocumentsinYucatecMaya,1612,1706,and1812,”UCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.10:109-121,1990
“TheTroubleWithAndresMexia:Sixteenth-CenturyDocumentsinYucatecMaya,”UCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.9:62-78,1989
ReviewofPaulSullivan,UnfinishedConversations:MayasandForeignersBetweenTwoWars(NewYork,1989)andGrantD.Jones,MayaResistancetoSpanishRule:TimeandHistoryonaColonialFrontier(Albuquerque,1989),inUCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.11(1991):159-64
ReviewofIdaAltman,EmigrantsandSociety.ExtremaduraandSpanishAmericaintheSixteenthCentury(BerkeleyandLosAngeles,1989),inUCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.10(1990):152-154
ReviewofIngaClendinnen,AmbivalentConquests:MayaandSpaniardinYucatan,1517-1570(Cambridge,1987),inUCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.9(1989):96-98
Review(withJulieCharlip)ofArturoCruzJr.,MemoirsofaCounter-revolutionary.LifeWithTheContras,theSandinistas,andtheCIA(NewYork,1989),inUCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.9(1989):100-103
PRESENTATIONS
InvitedPresentations:TalksandLectures2020
“YouBetterBelizeIt.”TalkgiventotheMesoamericanResearchInstitute,Tulane
University,February2019
“WhenMontezumaMetCortés.”TalkgivenatProvidenceCollege,November2019
“MoctezumaandCortés.”PresentationataroundtableontheQuincentennial,John
CarterBrownLibrary,November2019
“WhenMontezumaMetCortés.”Keynoteaddressscheduled(butcancelleddueto
Weather)forasymposiumon“RethinkingColonialisminMexicoandtheAmericas,”UniversityofTulsa,November
2019
“WhenMontezumaMetCortés.”TalkandseminargivenattheUniversitatPompeuFabra,Barcelona,October
2019
“WhenMontezumaMetCortés.”TalkgivenattheFalmouthMuseums,June2019
“UncoveringtheShockingTruthsoftheSpanish-AztecWar.”Talkgivenatthe
UniversityofExeter,March2019
“GiftsofWomen:UncoveringtheShockingTruthsoftheSpanish-AztecWar.”Talk
givenattheDenverArtMuseum,January2018
“ChallengingtheImperialNarrative:theSpanish-AztecEncounter.”Talkgiven
atOxfordUniversityandattheUniversityofBristol,May2018
PresentationandpaneldiscussionofWhenMontezumaMetCortésattheMexican
CulturalInstitute,Washington,DC,April2018
PresentationandpaneldiscussionofWhenMontezumaMetCortésattheSan
AntonioBookFestival,TX,April2018
“TheDayTheWorldChanged:Montezuma,Cortés,andOneofHistory'sGreatest
Lies.”TalkgivenattheUniversityofNewcastle,March2018
WorkshoponWhenMontezumaMetCortés,presentedattheUniversityof
Manchester,March
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2018
“TheBoldandtheBellicose:MayaWarfareintheConquestEra.”Keynoteaddressat
theMiddleAmericanResearchInstitute’sMayaSymposium,TulaneUniversity,
March2018
“WhyEverythingYouThoughtYouKnewAbouttheAztecsandConquistadorsis
Wrong.”TalkgivenatLycomingCollege,PA,February2017
“Montezuma’sZoo,Cortés’sTiger:RevisitingtheMeetingThatChangedHistory.”
TalkgivenatSt.AndrewsUniversity,Scotland,November2017
“TheLandaConundrum.”Papergivenatthespecialconference,TheFranciscansin
Mexico:FiveCenturiesofCulturalInfluence,attheMexicanCulturalInstitute,
WashingtonDC,October2017
“KissingFreedom,StealingfromColumbus.”TalkgiventotheUnitedStatesCapitol
HistoricalSociety,WashingtonDC,October
(https://www.c-span.org/video/?435550-1/us-capitol-art-architecture)2017
“TheFalloftheAztecs:UncoveringtheTrueStory.”TalkgiventothePre-Columbian
SocietyofWashingtonDC,August2017
“MissingMayas:ABelizeanConundrum.”TalkgivenattheMaya@LagoSymposium,
Davidson,NC,April2017
“AztecandConquistadors:IsEverythingYouThoughtYouKnewAboutThem
Wrong?"JohnCoffinMemorialLecture,SchoolofAdvancedStudy,Universityof
London,March;followedthenextdaybya3-hourworkshopon“TheNewConquest
History”2017
“Cortés’sTigerandtheHallsofMontezuma:TheHistoryofanInternationalLie.”
TalkgivenattheUniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,February2016
“’Therewasatimewhenwewerefriends’:LasCasas,Cortés,andtheConquest
Wars.”KeynotetalkatthesymposiumonLasCasas:History,Philosophy,and
TheologyintheAgeofEuropeanExpansion,ProvidenceCollege,October2016
“MapsandMassacres.”TalkgivenatthespecialIndigenousPasturessymposium,
PennStateUniversity,April2016
“MontezumaSurrendersintheU.S.Capitol:TheHistoryofOneofHistory’sBiggest
Lies.”TalkgivenatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity,March2015
“TheNewConquestHistory:itsimplicationsforMexico,Guatemala,andColombia.”
Twotalks&workshopspresentedattheColombianInstituteforHistoryand
Anthropology,Bogotá,September2015
“Encounter.”JCBxtalkgivenatBrownUniversity,May2014
“MakingEndsMeet:ANewLookattheGreatEncounterBetweenCortésand
Montezuma.”TalkgivenatYaleUniversity,October2014
“TurningCortésandMontezumaUpsideDown.”KeynotetalkgiventotheSociety
forLatinAmericanStudies(UK),50thAnniversarymeeting,London,April
[www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/politics-development-human-rights/turning-cortes-and-moctezuma-upside-down]
2014
“TheLastEmperor,or,TheMeeting:CortésandMontezumaRevisited.”Talkgiven
attheJohnCarterBrownLibrary,BrownUniversity,Providence,March2013
"HowImaginaryMeetingsChangeHistory(TwoCaseStudiesfromNewSpain).”
TalkgiventotheEighteenth-CenturySeminar,PrincetonUniversity,andthe
InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton,November2013
“TheSpanishConquestTurnedUpsideDown.”TalkgivenatOhioWesleyanUniversity,
April
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2013
“MythsandMisconceptionsoftheAncientMaya.”TalkgivenwithAmaraSolaritothe
UniversityClub,PennState,April2012
“TheEndisNear(orIsIt?).”PresentationmadeindowntownSpringfield,MO,in
connectionwithMissouriStateUniversityandthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,November
2012
“MayaApocalypse.”PresentationmadewithAmaraSolariattheUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,November
2012
“2012:TheEndisNear(orIsn’t).”TalkgivenatYorkCollegeofPennsylvania,October2012
“TheConquistadors.”TalkgivenatLycomingCollege,September2012
“2012,theMayaandtheEndoftheWorld.”PresentationmadeatAssumptionCollege,
April2012
“TheMaya,theWest,andThisYear’sApocalypse.”Presentationmadeatthe
UniversityofTennessee,February2011
“MayaApocalypse:1562or2012?”PresentationmadewithAmaraSolariatCarnegie
MellonUniversity,November2011
“Invasion:TheMayaatWar:1520s-1540s.”PresentationatthesymposiumConflict,
Conquest,andthePerformanceofWarinPre-ColumbianAmerica,DumbartonOaks,October
2011
“WhytheWorldWillEnd(orWon’t)in2012:TheWesternRootsoftheMayaApocalypse.”PresentationmadeatWashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,September
2011
“TheEndoftheWorld:PredictedbyMayans,ConfirmedbyScience?”PresentationmadeatAlbrightCollege,September
2011
SeriesofthreepresentationsonMayahistory,NEHSummerSeminar,Coba,Yucatan,July
2011
“SpicyEnough?TheHistoryofChocolate,1000BC-1828AD.”PresentationmadewithAmaraSolariatthePennStateSymposiumonChocolate,April
2011
“2012andtheEndoftheWorld.”PresentationmadeattheUniversityofMiami,February
2010
“AretheMayaReallyAfro-Maya?(TheLostHistoryofAfro-Yucatan).”PresentationmadetotheUniversityofCincinnati,April
2010
“WhyHistoriansSteal:Ethics,Method,andHistory.”PresentationmadeatPennState,February
2010
“TheLostHistoryofAfro-Yucatan.”PresentationmadeattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia,February
2009
“TheForgottenHistoryofAfro-Yucatan.”PresentationmadeattheCollegeofWilliam&Mary,October
2009
“BlackYucatan:TheAfricanDiasporaofColonialMexicoandItsForgottenHistory.”PresentationmadeattheUniversityofCaliforniaatDavis,April
2009
“TheForgottenHistoryofBlackYucatan.”PresentationmadeatStanfordUniversity,April
2009
“MayaMatters.”PaperpresentedtotheInternationalSeminarontheHistoryoftheAtlanticWorld,1500-1825,HarvardUniversity,March
2009
“TheForgottenHistoryofBlackYucatan.”PresentationmadeatJohnsHopkinsUniversity,February
2009
“WhatistheNewConquestHistory?”PresentationmadeatLoyolaCollege,Baltimore,February
2009
“TheForgottenHistoryofAfricansinYucatan(Mexico).”Presentationmadeat
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CaliforniaUniversityofPennsylvania,February2008
“TheSpanishInvasion:WhatistheNewConquestHistory?”Presentationmadeatthe
UniversityofOregon,November2008
“MesoamericanVoices.”PresentationmadeintheMomentsofChangeseries,Penn
State,February2007
“DebunkingtheMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationmadeatRoanoke
College,November2006
FourdaysofworkshoppresentationsforanNEHSummerInstituteon“MayaWorldsof
Chiapas,Guatemala,HondurasandBelize,”GeorgeScheperandLaraineFletcher,orgs.,BelmopanandotherlocationsinBelize,July
2005
“MayasandAfricans.”PresentationmadetothePre-ColumbianSociety,UniversityofPennsylvaniaMuseumofAnthropology,May
2005
“MayasandAfricans.”PresentationmadeattheInstituteofHistoricalResearch,Queen’sCollege,UniversityofLondon,April
2005
“Spanish-IndigenousRelations:MythsoftheConquest.”PresentationmadeattheInstitutoCervantes,London,April
2005
“SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”SeriesoffivetalksmadetothePrologueSociety(PalmBeach,NorthPalm,BocaRaton,Stuart,andMiamichapters),JanuaryandFebruary
2004
“EthnohistoryandAfrohistory.”PresentationmadeatTulaneUniversity,November2004
“SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationmadeatVanderbiltUniversity,
April2003
“Manuel’sWorlds”and“AfricansinSpanishAmerica.”Presentationsmadeatthe
UniversityofMiami,October2003
“SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationandbooksigningatBarnes&
Noble,StateCollege,September2003
“LandayCalkiní:Desafíosysorpresasdelacomparacióntextualytraducción.”
PresentationmadetotheDireccióndeEstudiosHistóricosoftheInstitutoNacionaldeAntropologíaeHistoria,MexicoCity,May
2003
“TheBlackMiddle:Slavery,Society,andAfrican-MayaRelationsinColonialYucatan.”PresentationmadetotheInstituteforArtsandHumanities,PennState,March
2003
“TheKing’sArmyThatNeverWasandOtherMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationmadeattheUnitedStatesMilitaryAcademy,WestPoint,February
2002
“TheApotheosisofCaptainCortés.”PresentationmadeastheDelbertMcQuadeHistoryLectureatJuniataCollege,October
2002
"Cook'sPassage:AnEnglishman'sJourneyintoYucatanin1765."PresentationmadetotheJohnCarterBrownLibraryfellowsandassociates,BrownUniversity,June
2002
"AfricansandMayasinColonialGuatemalaandYucatan."PresentationmadeatBardCollege,Annandale-on-Hudson,May
2002
"ApesandMen:TheMythofSuperiority."PresentationmadeattheLatinAmericanHistoryWorkshop,PrincetonUniversity,February
2002
"SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest."PresentationmadetotheJohnCarterBrownLibraryfellowsandassociates,BrownUniversity,February
1999
“TheUndiscoveredConquistadors.”AseriesofthreepresentationsmadeastheNAVElecturesattheUniversityofWisconsin,Madison,October
1999
“SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationmadetotheDepartmentofHistory,UniversityofNorthFlorida,September
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1998
“TheOtherSideofConquest:SpaniardsandMayasintheSixteenthCentury.”PresentationmadetotheJohnCarterBrownLibraryfellows,BrownUniversity,September
1997
"TheAlternativeHistoryoftheSpanishConquest:YucatanasaCaseStudy."PresentationmadetotheDepartmentofArchaeology,BostonUniversity,October
1997
"TheCaseoftheMissingMayas:TheNewPhilologyandtheDiscoveryofColonialMesoamerica."PresentationmadetotheDepartmentofAnthropology,StateUniversityofNewYorkatAlbany,February
1997
"TheTiesthatBind:SocialCohesionandtheYucatecMayaFamily."PresentationmadetotheBostonAreaHistoryWorkshop,HarvardUniversity,February
1996
"ClassinMayaSociety:Colonial-EraEvidence."PresentationmadetoagraduateseminarintheDepartmentofArchaeology,BostonUniversity,October
1996
"IsThereSuchaThingasEthnicity?ViewsfromAnthropologyandHistory."PresentationmadewithMartinDiskintotheBostonAreaConsortiumonLatinAmerica,HarvardUniversity,March
1994
"PerspectivesonMayaCivilization."PresentationmadetotheDepartmentofHistory,CentralTexasUniversity,April
1992
"PostconquestYucatecMayaCultureandSociety:theEvidenceofNotarialDocuments."PresentationmadetotheAztecTertulia,UCLA,February
ConferencePapers
2019
“WhytheSpanish-AztecQuincentennialMatters.”Roundtablepresentationtothe
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,UniversityPark,PA,September2019
“YouBetterBelizeIt:ToponymicandColonialistOriginMythologyinSouthern
Yucatan.”PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandthe
AmericanHistoricalAssociation,Chicago,January2018
“TheTroublewith‘America’.”PresidentialaddressdeliveredtotheAmericanSociety
forEthnohistory,Oaxaca,Mexico,October2015
“Montezuma’sRevenge.”PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmerican
HistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,NewYorkCity,January2015
“EncounterandEthnohistory.”RoundtablepresentationmadetotheAmerican
HistoricalAssociation,NewYorkCity,January2013
“GasparAntonioChiandBelize:ATaleofTwoTemptations.”Presentationmade
attheUniversityofPennsylvania,attheThirdYucataninPARoundtable,March2013
“LoveandAngerinYucatanandBelize.”PaperpresentedtotheConferenceon
LatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,NewYorkCity,January
2012
“LandaandtheEndoftheWorld.”PaperpresentedattheInternationalCongressofAmericanists,Vienna,July
2011
“2012andYucatan.”PresentationmadeatPennState,attheSecondYucataninPARoundtable,February
2010
“ImperialRivalries:TheMollMapoftheCaribbean(TheHeartoftheMatter).”PaperpresentedattheAmericanAssociationofGeographersmeeting,Washington,April
2009
“TheColonialComplexoftheYucatan-Belize-GuatemalaBorderlands.”PaperpresentedattheInternationalCongressofAmericanists,MexicoCity,July
2008
“ADayintheLife(ofEighteenth-CenturyMayas).”PaperpresentedattheEuropean
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CongressofMayanists,Paris,December2008
“ReturntoIxil.”Paperpresented,withMarkChristensen,attheAmericanSocietyfor
Ethnohistory,Eugene,November2008
“YucatanandBelize:ANewHistoryofaForgottenFrontier.”Paperpresentedatthe
FEEGImeeting,Georgetown,February2007
“HowYucatan’sMayasBecameAfro-Mayas.”Paperpresentedatthemeetingofthe
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tulsa,November2007
“TheBlackMiddle.”Presentationmadeataspecialconference,theFirstAnnual
Yucatan/PARoundtable,PennStateUniversity,October2004
“MayasinMerida'sMeltingPot:EthnogenesisintheEighteenthCentury.”Paper
prepared(butnotpresented)attheEuropeanMayanistsConference,Bonn,December2004
“Manuel’sWorlds,Richard’sWorlds:BlackYucatanandtheColonialCaribbean.”Paper
presentedatthespecialconference,BetweenRaceandPlace:BlacksandBlacknessinCentralAmericaandtheMainlandCaribbean,TulaneUniversity,November
2004
“TheDynamicsofAfrican-MayaInteractioninColonialYucatanandGuatemala.”Papertopresentedatthespecialconference,NewDirectionsinNorthAmericanScholarshiponAfro-Mexico,PennStateUniversity,October
2004
“PeopleasProperty:AfricanSlaveryinLateColonialYucatan.”Paperpresentedat
theLatinAmericanStudiesAssociationconference,LasVegas,October2003
“TheMysteriousandtheInvisible:WritingHistoryinandofColonialYucatan.”
PaperpresentedtotheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,Chicago,November2003
“MythsoftheSpanishConquest,asseenthroughtheKislakConquestofMexico
Paintings.”Paperpresentedatthespecialconference,“InvasionandTransformation:InterdisciplinaryPerspectivesonImagesoftheConquestofMexico,”UniversityofMiami,March
2002
“GenresandMethodsintheStudyofMayasandAfricansofColonialYucatan.”PaperpresentedatthespecialconferenceonSourcesandMethodsintheEthnohistoryofMesoamerica,UCLA,October
2002
“AgonyasEntertainment:RitualViolenceandPublicExecutionsinSpanishAmerica.”PaperpresentedatthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,QuebecCity,October
2002
"TelescopesandCorkscrews:ColonialMayaConceptionsofTime."PaperpresentedtothePennHumanitiesForumandthePennUniversityMuseum20thAnnualMayaWeekend,Philadelphia,April
2002
“Women’sNetworksinColonialYucatan.”PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,SanFrancisco,January
2001
“MistakingtheConquest:MichaelWood’sConquistadors.”PaperpresentedatthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tucson,October
2000
“CrossingtheCulturalDivide:TheExtraordinaryLifeandTimesofGasparAntonioChi.”PaperpresentedatthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,London,Ontario,October
2000
“TheJanusFaceofMayaIdentity.”Paperpresentedtothe50thInternationalCongressofAmericanists,Warsaw,July
2000
“MayaEthnogenesis,1500-1850.”PaperpresentedtotheLatinAmericanStudiesAssociation,Miami,March
2000
“CasteofCharacters:Race,Ethnicity,andIdentityamongMayas,Blacks,andSpaniardsinEighteenth-CenturyYucatan.”PaperpresentedtotheRockyMountainCouncilon
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LatinAmericanStudies,SantaFe,January1999
“AlterityandAmbiguity:SpanishandMayaPerceptionsofAfricansinColonial
Yucatan.”PaperpresentedtotheTenthReunionofMexicanists,Dallas,November1999
“TheFallacyofFreedom:TheAfro-YucatecanExperienceintheAgeof
Slavery.”PaperpresentedtotheUNESCOconferenceonLaRutadelEsclavoenHispanoamérica,SanJosé,CostaRica,February
1999
"WereThereAfro-YucatecansintheColonialPeriod?"PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,WashingtonDC,January
1998
"Bloodliners:Ethnicity,Class,andtheOriginMythologyofMayaLineagesbeforeandaftertheConquest."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,Philadelphia,December
1998
"ElMitodeOrigenesylaHistoriadeClases:LosChibalobenYucatánColonial."PaperpresentedtotheIVCongresoInternacionaldeMayistas,Antigua,Guatemala,August
1997
"TheIdentityNexusinLate-ColonialYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheNortheastAmericanSocietyforEighteenthCenturyStudies,Boston,December
1997
"MultivocalityinArchitecture,Image,andNative-LanguageTextsinColonialSouthernMesoamerica."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,WashingtonDC,November
1997
"TheWoundedHands:MayaRepresentationsoftheViolenceofConquestandColonizationinYucatanandGuatemala."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,MexicoCity,November
1997
"LaculturadeasentamientoenlasociedadmayadelYucatáncolonial."Paperpresentedtothe49thInternationalCongressofAmericanists,Quito,Ecuador,July
1997
"RiskyBusiness:TheImpactofSpanishColonialismuponMayaGubernatorialLegitimacy."PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,NewYorkCity,January
1996
"AnHistoricalPerspectiveonCultureChangeinColonialYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,SanFrancisco,November
1996
"TheRunawaySlaveandtheMayaPostman:African-MayaRelationsinColonialYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Portland,November
1996
"IdentityandLegitimacy:TheRulersandtheRuledinColonialYucatan."PaperpresentedtothePacificCoastandRockyMountainCouncilsonLatinAmericanStudies,SantaFe,March
1995
"'Repugnantthedifference':TheRolesofRace,Gender,Sexuality,andLoveinPersonalRelationsinColonialYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,Chicago,January
1994
"ToLiveandDieintheYucatecMayaWorld:TheIndigenousTestamentasaUsefulEthnohistoricalSource."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tempe,November
1994
"YucatecMayaResponsesto'Modernization':theColonialPeriod."Paperpresentedtothe48thInternationalCongressofAmericanists,Stockholm/Uppsala,Sweden,July
1994
"'ThisChangeofRulers':MayaViewsoftheConquestofYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheRockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies,FortWorth,February
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1993
"'Hewisheditinvain':SubordinationandResistanceAmongMayaWomeninColonialYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Bloomington,November
1992
"BetweenStoneMounds:TheMayaPerspectiveontheIntracolonialFrontier."PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,WashingtonDC,December
1992
"Protection,Permission,andProhibition:MayaSexualityinPostconquestYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,SaltLakeCity,November
1991
"GenderandStatusinPostconquestMayaSociety."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tulsa,November
1991
"MayaCulturalPersistence:TheEvidenceofNotarialDocumentsinColonialYucatec."Paperpresentedtothe47thInternationalCongressofAmericanists,NewOrleans,July
1991
"FormatandInterpretation:TheMayaTestamentsofIxil,Yucatan."Paperpresentedtothe9thInternationalSymposiumoftheLatinAmericanIndianLiteraturesAssociation,Quito,Ecuador,June
ConferencePanelCommentaries
2017
onthespecialconferenceMayaPeoplesMakingHistory,atGeorgetownUniversity
andtheMexicanCulturalInstitute,WashingtonDC,September2013
ontwopanelsattheASEmeeting,NewOrleans,September2013
onthepanel“NewBranchesontheFamilyTree:TalesofKith&KininColonial
SpanishAmerica”attheCLAH/AHAmeeting,NewYorkCity,January2012
ontwopanelsattheASEmeeting,Springfield,MO,October2011
onthepanel“ChoiceandConsequenceinCentralAmericanSlaves’Lives”atthe
SouthernHistoricalAssociationmeeting,Baltimore,October2011
onthepanel“TheManyConquestsofMexico”attheCLAH/AHAmeeting,Boston,
January2010
ontheroundtable“WhatistheNewConquestHistory?”attheASEmeeting,
Ottawa,October2010
introductiontothedocumentaryfilmRuinsattheFilmFestival,AHAmeeting,San
Diego,January2009
onthepanel,“GlobalPerspectivesandLocalUnderstandingsinHistorical
NarrativesabouttheConquestofMexico,”attheCLAH/AHAmeeting,NewYork,January
2008
onthepanel“IndianConquistadors:NativePeoplesintheConquestsofMesoamerica,”andonthepanel“ThePastinthePresent:IndigenousPeoplesandCommemorationinNorth,Central,andSouthAmerica,”atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Eugene,November
2006
onthepanel“MakingSenseoftheOtherinNewSpain”atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Williamsburg,November
2003
onthepanel“NewApproachestoAfricanEthnicity,IdentityandCultureinSpanishAmerica”atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Riverside,November
2001
onthepanel“RitualsofGenderandPowerinColonialMexico”attheCLAH/AHAmeeting,Boston,January(preparedbutnotdelivered)
2000
onthe“Ethnicity”panelatACountryUnlikeAnyOther?:NewPerspectivesonHistoryinYucatán,YaleUniversity,November
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2000
onthepanel“IndiansandSlavesinNewGranadaandQuito,16thto18thCenturies”atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,London,Ontario,October
2000
onthepanel“IndigenousMerchantsinSixteenth-CenturyMesoamerica”attheRockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudiesmeeting,SantaFe,January
1999
onthepanel“MakingDo:NativeMesoamericanandColonial/National-EraChristianity”atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Mashantucket,October
1998
onthepanel“SpatialConnections:NewExplorationsofYucatecMayaCulture,ColonialandModern”atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Minneapolis,November
1997
onthepanel"InterethnicInteractioninColonialMexicoandGuatemala"atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,MexicoCity,November
1996
onthepanel"GenderandRaceacrossColonialNewSpain"atthemeetingofthePacificCoastandRockyMountainCouncilsonLatinAmericanStudies,SantaFe,March
ConferencesOrganized
2019 Co-chairofthePlanningandProgramCommitteefortheannualmeeting
oftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,UniversityPark(PennState),September2017
OrganizedtheInauguralLatinAmericanStudiesSymposium(combinedwiththe
TePaskeSeminar)atPennStateUniversity,onEarlyUrbanTransatlanticism,April2011
Co-organizedaspecialconference,theSecondAnnualYucatan/PARoundtable,Penn
StateUniversity,October2007
Organizedaspecialconference,theFirstAnnualYucatan/PARoundtable,PennState
University,October2004
Co-organizedaspecialconference,NewDirectionsinNorthAmericanScholarshipon
Afro-Mexico,PennStateUniversity,October
ConferencePanelsOrganized2019
ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,
Chicago,January2016
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Nashville,November2012
InternationalCongressofAmericanists,Vienna,July2010
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Ottawa,October2009
InternationalCongressofAmericanists,MexicoCity,July2007
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tulsa,November;co-organizedaseriesofsix
panelsonColonialMesoamerica2005
ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,
Seattle,January2002
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,QuebecCity,October2001
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tucson,October2001
ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,
Boston,January2000
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Ontario,October2000
InternationalCongressofAmericanists,Warsaw,July1998
AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,Philadelphia,December1998
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Minneapolis,November
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1997
NortheastAmericanSocietyforEighteenthCenturyStudies,Boston,December1997
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,MexicoCity,November1996
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Portland,November1994
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tempe,November1994
RockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies,FortWorth,February1992
ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,
Washington,December1992
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,SaltLakeCity,November
WORKINPROGRESS
BookProjectsTheFriarandtheMaya:FrayDiegodeLanda’sRelacióndelasCosasdeYucatán.Editor,with
AmaraSolari,JohnF.Chuchiak,andTraciArdren.Boulder:UniversityPressofColorado[Undercontractandinprogress].
[PolisheditionofSevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.]Warsaw:Bellona.[Dueoutin
2020]LandofMakeBelize[amonographontheearlyhistoryofBelize,inprogress;possiblytobe
thethirdvolumeinatrilogyonthecolonial-eragreaterYucatanpeninsula].TheLivesandDeedsoftheLieutenantNun.WithMiguelMartínez[bookprojectinprogress,
intendedforLatinAmericanOriginalsseries].RelacióndelascosasdeYucatán,porfrayDiegodeLanda.Editor,withJohnF.Chuchiak
[FacsimileandSpanish-languageedition].MexicoCity:UniversidadNacionalAutónomadeMéxico[forthcoming].
ArticlesandPapers
“ColonialYucatecMayaLiterature”(withMarkChristensen),inHandbookofMiddleAmerican
Indians,revisedvolumeonLiteratures[essaycompleted2005;volumeundercontractwithUniversityofTexasPress2003-2013;currentlyinlimbo]
“AGuidetoWrittenColonialMaya,IncludingaColonialMaya-EnglishDictionary”[incompletearticlemanuscript,usedasateachingtoolsince2001]
TEACHING
ClassesOfferedProfessor&SparksProfessor,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,2004-present:
survey:“TheAtlanticWorldinEarlyModernTimes”;“WorldHistory(since1500)”
advanced:“Encounters(intheSixteenthCentury)”;“ColonialVoices:Spaniards,Africans,
andNativeAmericans”;“Empires”(Honorscourse,taughtwithGarrettFagan)*;“The
Conquistadors”;“TheEndoftheWorld”(Honorscourse,taughtwithAmaraSolari)*
graduate:“LatinAmericanSocialHistory,1500-1900”;“Ethnohistory:Colonial
MesoamericanSocieties”;“EthnohistoryandAfrohistory:ColonialLatinAmericanSocieties”;“Maya,Nahuatl,andPaleography”;“MayaHistory”;“ColonialLatinAmerican
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History;“ModernLatinAmericanHistory”;“EarlyModernIberiaandtheAmericas”(taughtwithBradfordBouley)
AssociateProfessor,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,1998-2004:
survey:“TheAtlanticWorldinEarlyModernTimes”
intermediate:“Culture,Race,andSocialStructureinColonialLatinAmerica”advanced:“TheConquestsofMexicoandYucatan”;“SocialHistoryofMexico”;“MayaHistory”;“CultureandConquestinSpanishAmerica”;“Empires”
graduate:“ColonialLatinAmericanSocialHistory”;“MarriageandSocietyinColonialMexico”;“RaceandGenderinLatinAmerica”;“AnIntroductiontoNahuatlandMaya”;“NahuatlandPaleography”;“SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest”;“CohesionandDissentinLatinAmericanSocieties,SixteenthtoNineteenthCenturies”
AssistantProfessor,BostonCollege,1995-98:
survey:"EuropeandtheAmericas"
intermediate:"Culture,EthnicityandSocialStructureinColonialLatinAmerica,”revisedas“Race,Culture,andSocialStructureinColonialLatinAmerica”advanced:"ASocialHistoryofMexico";"TheStudy&WritingofHistory:TheConquestsofMexico&Peru";"LatinAmericanHistorythroughFilm,Music,andLiterature"
graduate:"Race,Gender,andIdentityinColonialLatinAmerica"AssistantProfessor,SouthwesternUniversity,1993-95:
survey:"WorldCivilizations"
intermediate:"Culture,Ethnicity,andSocialStructureinColonialLatinAmerica"advanced:"ASocialHistoryofMexico";"FromPyramidstoPersecution:A2,000-YearHistoryoftheMaya";"Race,RankandRevoltinModernLatinAmerica";"GenderandSexualityinLatinAmerica"
TeachingAssistant/Associate,UCLA,1988-90:"LatinAmericanSocialHistory";"LatinAmerica:ReformandRevolution";"CentralAmerica:TheStruggleforChange";"CentralAmericaandMexico"
*”Empires”and“TheEndoftheWorld”bothsupportedbyCollaborativeTeachingGrantsfromPennState’sInstitutefortheArtsandHumanities
PhDDissertationsDirected(andPlacementofGraduates)ChristopherValesey,“ManagingtheHerd:Nahuas,Animals,andColonialisminSixteenth-
CenturyNewSpain.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2019.Dr.Valeseyisa
Post-doctoralteachingfellowatPennState.ScottCave,“CommunicationandtheSocialHistoryofContactintheSpanishAtlantic,1341-
1602.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2018.Dr.CaveisResearchAssociate
forLaFlorida:TheInteractiveDigitalArchiveoftheAmericas.RebekahMartin,“RitualMedicineinaColonialSociety:InquisitionalEncountersinYucatan
andtheSouthernGulfCoast,1620-1820.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,
2016.Dr.MartinisanindependentscholarandlecturerinMonterrey,CA.SpencerDelbridge,“MexicanGenesis:Religion,Race,andthePoliticsofOriginsin
Nineteenth-CenturyYucatán.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2013.Dr.DelbridgeisDirectoroftheCenterforCommunityEngagementatWingateUniversity.
MarkChristensen,“NahuaandMayaCatholicisms.”PhDdissertation,History,Penn
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State,2010.Dr.ChristensenisatenuredassociateprofessoratBrighamYoungUniversity.HisdissertationwaspublishedasNahuaandMayaCatholicismsbyStanfordUniversityPressin2013,andhehassincepublishedtwoadditionalbooks:TranslatedChristianities:NahuatlandMayaReligiousTexts(withPennStateUniversityPressin2014);andTheTeaboManuscript:MayaChristianCopybooks,ChilamBalams,andNativeTextProductioninYucatán(withtheUniversityofTexasPressin2016).
RobertSchwaller,“DefiningDifferenceinEarlyNewSpain.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2010.Dr.SchwallerisatenuredassociateprofessorattheUniversityofKansas.Hisdissertation-basedmonograph,GénerosdeGenteinEarlyColonialMexico:DefiningRacialDifference,waspublishedin2016bytheUniversityofOklahomaPress;andTheHistoryoftheNewWorld:GirolamoBenzoni’sHistoriadelMondoNuovo(withJanaByars)cameoutin2017withPennStateUniversityPress.
MarkLentz,“AssassinationinYucatan:YucatecansBeforetheLaw.”PhDdissertation,History,TulaneUniversity(co-directorwithSusanSchroeder),2009.Dr.Lentzisatenure-trackassistantprofessoratUtahValleyUniversity.Hisdissertation-basedmonograph,MurderinMérida,waspublishedin2018bytheUniversityofNewMexicoPress.
JasonFrederick,“TheLandscapeofDiscontent:CommunityandConflictinPapantla,Veracruz,1750-1800.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2005.Dr.FrederickisatenuredprofessoranddepartmentchairatLawrenceUniversity.Hisdissertation-basedmonograph,Riot!,waspublishedin2016bySussexAcademicPress;andhisSpanishDollarsandSisterRepublics:TheMoneyThatMadeMexicoandtheUnitedStates(withTatianaSeijas)waspublishedmonthslaterbyRowman&Littlefield.Thetwobooksearnedhima2017ExcellenceinScholarshipAwardfromLawrenceUniversity.
EdOsowski,“SaintsoftheRepublic:NahuaReligiousObligationsinCentralMexico,1692-1810.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2002.Dr.OsowskiisatenuredmemberofthefacultyatJohnAbbottCollege.HisdissertationwaspublishedasIndigenousMiraclesbyUniversityofArizonaPressin2010;hisMexicanHistory:APrimarySourceReadercameoutwithWestviewthepreviousyear.
MAsDirected
SamanthaDavis,MA,LatinAmericanHistory&ArtHistory,PennState,2019ScottDoebler,MA,LatinAmericanHistory&LatinAmericanStudies,PennState,2018MeganMcDonie,MA,LatinAmericanHistory&LatinAmericanStudies,PennState,2015AislingMcIntyre,MA,LatinAmericanHistory&LatinAmericanStudies,PennState,2013RebekahMartin,MA,ColonialLatinAmericanHistory&LatinAmericanStudies,PennState,
2012AliciaShatley,MA,ColonialLatinAmericanHistory,PennState,2010(thesis:“’ByTwo
HundredLashes’:Women,Bigamy,andtheHolyOfficein18thCenturyMexico”)RebekahNicholson,MA,ColonialLatinAmericanHistory,PennState,2009(thesis:“Haitian
AuxiliaryTroopsinYucatan:AComparativeContext”)MatthewF.Padrón,MA,ColonialLatinAmericanHistory,PennState,2008(thesis:“Pursuinga
TrailofBlood:TheFailureofSpanishConquestPoliciesagainstMaroonCommunitiesinNewSpain”)
SpencerDelbridge,MA,ColonialLatinAmericanHistory,PennState,2007(thesis:“MayaMemory
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intheColonialPeriod”)IrisM.Cowher,MA,LatinAmericanHistory,PennState,2001(thesis:“Cárdenas’sGamble?The
PoliticsandDiplomacyBehindtheMexicanPresident’sDecisiontoNationalizetheOilIndustryin1938”)
DoctoralCommitteeMembership
[History]Chairshipormembershiponotherdoctoralcommittees,1998-2019,inHistoryatPennState(unlessotherwiseindicated;namesinitalicsarecurrentlyactivestudents;graduatedadviseeslistedabove):SamanthaDavis;ScottDoebler;KateGodfrey;SamanthaBilling;ChristopherValesey;MeganMcDonie;FrancescoLacopo;AlexandriaHerrera;SeonghekKang;FedericoPeñateDominguez(UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid);PaulRelstab(MA,left2014);LaurentCases(2016);JeffreyHorton(2016);AliciaShatley(2012);MatthewPadrón(2011);JanaByars(2006);AlexanderKrivonosov;ValentinaCesco;MatthewIsham;MichaelTuttle;AdamRogers;GregoryMurry;PhilipHnatkovich;JenniferDavis;AmyMitchell-Cook;MichaelSmith;AnnHubbard;ChristineRivas(History,CarletonUniversity,2008).[Otherdisciplines]Membershiponotherdoctoralcommittees,1998-2017,indepartmentsotherthanHistoryatPennState(unlessotherwiseindicated;namesinitalicsarecurrentlyactivestudents):RichardGeorge(Anthropology,2020);EmilyKate(Anthropology);EricDyrdahl(Anthropology,2016);AurelioLópez(Anthropology,2010);ErickRochette(Anthropology,2009);GregoryLuna(Anthropology,2012);MatthewRockmore(Anthropology,2008);AmyKovak(Anthropology,2006);ZacharyNelson(Anthropology,2005);GerardoGutiérrez(Anthropology,2002);JaySilverstein(Anthropology,2000);PeterKoby(Geography);SethDixon(Geography);ToddHeibel(Geography,2005);SofíaVillareal(Spanish);MaríaInclán(PoliticalScience);RenaeMitchell(ComparativeLiterature);GermánCampos-Muñóz(ComparativeLiterature);QuentinYoungberg(ComparativeLiterature,2006);NadiaMartínez-Carrillo(Communications);GeoffreyWallace(Geography,McGillUniversity),BenjaminEarwicker(Languages&Cultures,UniversityofOtago,NZ,2011).
SERVICE&OTHERPROFESSIONALACTIVITIES
Editorial:JournalsSeniorCo-Editor,HispanicAmericanHistoricalReview,2017-2022SeniorCo-Editor,Ethnohistory,2007-16BookReviewEditor,Ethnohistory,1997-2006AssociateEditor,Ethnohistory,2003-07,2016-19EditorialBoardMember,TheAmericas,2010-18EditorialBoardMember,Mesoamérica,2001-09EditorialBoardMember,Ethnohistory,2000-04ContributingEditor/Columnist,LAView(LosAngeles,weekly),1989-96GeneralorBookReviewEditor,UCLAHistoricalJournal,1988-92Editor-in-chief,WorcesterCollegestudentmagazine,OxfordUniversity,1984-86
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Editorial:BookSeries
LatinAmericanOriginals.Serieseditorandfounder(in2007).LAOisabookseriesofbrief
editionsofprimarysourcesonColonialLatinAmerica,publishedbyPennState
UniversityPress[13volumesinprint,8moreindevelopment].CambridgeLatinAmericanStudies.Seriesco-editor(withKrisLane)(since2015).CLASisa
prestigiousandwell-establishedseriesofmonographsonLatinAmericantopics,
publishedbyCambridgeUniversityPress.CriticalLatinAmerica,Brill.Editorialboardmember(since2018).
ManuscriptandPromotionReviewsFormalbookproposal,manuscript,article,andfellowshipapplicationreviewswritten(since1996)for:
AmericanPhilosophicalSociety;UniversityofArizonaPress;BedfordBooks&Bedford/St.Martin’s;BloomsburyAcademic;CambridgeUniversityPress;UniversityofChicagoPress;UniversityPressofColorado;DukeUniversityPress;HackettPub.Co.;LibraryofCongress’sKlugeCenter;UniversityofMinnesotaPress;UniversityofNewMexicoPress;UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress;UniversityofNotreDamePress;UniversityofOklahomaPress;OxfordUniversityPress;UniversityPressofFlorida;PrenticeHall;Routledge;SmithsonianInstitutionPress;StanfordUniversityPress;AmericanHistoricalReview;TheAmericas;AncientMesoamerica;TheArtBulletin;ColonialLatinAmericanReview;ColonialLatinAmericanHistoricalReview;EstudiosMexicanos/MexicanStudies;Ethnohistory;FronterasdelaHistoria(Colombia);HispanicAmericanHistoricalReview;JournalofEarlyModernHistory;JournaloftheHistoryofSexuality;JournalofLatinAmericanStudies;JournalofMilitaryHistory;JournalofSocialHistory;Mesoamérica(Guatemala);RadicalHistoryReview;RevistaMexicanadelCaribe;Secuencia(Mexico);SignosHistóricos;TemasAntropológicas;andTrashumanteMéxico.
Dust-jacketblurbswrittenfor14bookspublishedby8universitypressesintheU.S.(since2002).
Formalevaluationswrittenforpromotioncommitteesat32institutionsinCanada,theU.S.,andtheUK(since1999).
Professional(External)Committees
President,AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory(elected2016,president2017-18,presidential
triumvirate2016-19)Presidentialnominee,ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistory[CLAH](oftheAmericanHistorical
Association[AHA])(2014and2015;notelectedat2015and2016meetings)Chair,MexicanHistoryBookPrizecommittee,ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistory[CLAH]
(oftheAmericanHistoricalAssociation[AHA]),forawardat2012meeting(appointed)JamesAlexanderRobertsonMemorialPrizeCommittee(bestHAHRarticle),Conferenceon
LatinAmericanHistory[CLAH](oftheAmericanHistoricalAssociation[AHA]),forawardat2009meeting(appointed)
Chair,LewisHankeDissertationResearchAwardCommittee,CLAH(oftheAHA),forawardat
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2005meeting(appointed)Chair,HowardClinePrizeCommittee,CLAH(oftheAHA),forawardat2002meeting(appointed)PrizeCommittee(bestarticle),CLAH(oftheAHA),forawardat2000meeting(appointed)ProgramCommittee,CLAH(oftheAHA),for1999meeting(appointed)GeneralCommittee,RockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies(RMCLAS),1996-2001
(elected)Chair,DissertationPrizeCommittee,NewEnglandCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies(NECLAS),
1996(appointed)BostonCollegerepresentativetotheBostonAreaConsortiumonLatinAmerica(BACLA),1996-98
(appointed)AffiliateoftheDavidRockefellerCenterforLatinAmericanStudies,HarvardUniversity,1996-98
(appointed)
ProfessionalCommittees(PennStateUniversityService)University:LatinAmericanStudiescommittee(1999-present,ChairandDirector1999-
2011,2012-13,2014-present),founderofLiLACS(Latino,LatinAmerican,andCaribbean
Studies)andco-director(2008-16);FacultySelectioncommittee,SchreyerHonorsCollege
(2003,2005);FacultySenate&SenateLibrarycommittee(2010-11);PennStatePress
Board(2010-13)College(LiberalArts):CollegeGraduateResearchCommittee(2012-13,2014-17);College
UndergraduateCurriculumCommittee(2016-18);LatinxStudiesSearchandSteering
Committee(2016);WeissSearchCommittee(2011-12)Departmental(History):DirectorofGraduateStudies(2005-08);PromotionandTenure
committee(2000-01,2002-03,2006-07,2008-11,2014-15;Chair2004-05and2010-11),FullProfessorPromotionCommittee(2009-11,2017-19),PolicyCommittee(2015-16),GraduatePlacementcommittee(2001-03,2005-10),GraduateStudiescommittee(1999-2000),GraduateEvaluation&Awardscommittee(1998-2001,2005-08),GraduateRecruitment&Admissionscommittee(1998-99,2005-09,2011-13),LatinAmericanSearchcommittee(Chair,2014-15),LatinAmericanandLatinoStudiessearchcommittee(Chair2007-08),BorderlandsSearchCommittee(2005-06),EarlyModernEuropeanistSearchcommittee(2004-05),AfricanistSearchcommittee(1999-2000),Chairof9PhDcommitteesandChairof10MAcommittees(History,since1999),andmemberof29otherdoctoralcommittees(namedabove,since1999)
ProfessionalMembershipsAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation;AmericanHistoricalAssociation;AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory;AssociatesoftheJohnCarterBrownLibrary;ForumonEuropeanExpansionandGlobalInteraction;HakluytSociety;LatinAmericanStudiesAssociation;Mid-AtlanticCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies;NewEnglandCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies;RockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies
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Languages
Spoken:Spanish,FrenchRead(varyinglevels):YucatecMaya,Nahuatl,Latin,Portuguese
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Taught:YucatecMaya(colonial,read),Nahuatl(colonial,read,introductory),Spanishpaleography(16thto18thcenturies,introductory)
March2020