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MatthewRestall
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MatthewRestallwaseducatedatOxfordandUCLA.HeisEdwin
ErleSparksProfessorofLatinAmericanHistoryatPennState
University,andco-editorofEthnohistory.
Since1995hehaspublishedtwentybooksandoverfifty
articles&essays,focusingonthreeareasofspecialization:
colonialMesoamerica,primarilyYucatanandtheMaya;
AfricansinSpanishAmerica;andtheSpanishConquest.
HisworkonMayahistoryincludesTheMayaWorld(1997)and
MayaConquistador(1998),aswellastwoco-authored
volumes—MesoamericanVoices(2005)and2012andtheEnd
oftheWorld:TheWesternRootsoftheMayaApocalypse(2011).
HisbooksonAfro-SpanishAmericaincludetwoedited
volumes,BeyondBlackandRed(2005)andBlackMexico
(2009),plushismonograph,TheBlackMiddle:Africans,Mayas,
andSpaniardsinColonialYucatan,whichwontheCLAHprize
for2009’sbestbookonMexicanhistory.
Restall’scontributionstotheNewConquestHistoryinclude
SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest(2003,alsoinSpanishand
Portugueseeditions)andInvadingGuatemala(2007),
publishedinPennStatePress’LatinAmericanOriginalsseries,
ofwhichheiseditor.Hisco-authoredTheConquistadorswas
recentlypublished,alsoavailableasLosConquistadores.
HehaswrittentwotextbookswithKrisLane,bothreleasedin
2011:LatinAmericainColonialTimes;andTheRiddleofLatin
America.HeandLanerecentlybecameeditorsofCambridge
UniversityPress’sCambridgeLatinAmericanStudiesbookseries.
TherecipientofNationalEndowmentfortheHumanitiesand
GuggenheimFellowships,Restallrecentlyheldfellowshipsatthe
InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton,andtheJohnCarter
BrownLibrary(whereheisnowChairoftheAssociationof
Friends&Fellows).Heiscurrentlywritingtwomonographs,
oneonBelize,theotheronCortés&Montezuma;thelatter,titled
TheMeeting,isundercontractwithEcco/HarperCollins.
HistoryDepartment,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,UniversityPark,
PA16802-5501.814-865-1367.history.psu.edu/directory/mxr40
PROFESSIONALPOSITIONS
EdwinErleSparksProfessorofHistory,PennsylvaniaState
University,since2007(courtesyapptsinAnthropologyandin
Women’s,Gender&SexualityStudies);DirectorofLatin
AmericanStudies,since1999
ProfessorofHistory,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,2004-07
(DirectorofGraduateStudiesinHistory,2005-08)
AssociateProfessorofHistory,PennState,1998-2004
AssistantProfessorofHistory,BostonCollege,1995-98
AssistantProfessorofHistory,SouthwesternUniversity,1993-95
Co-editor,Ethnohistoryjournal(since2007)
Chair,AssociationofFriends&Fellows,JohnCarterBrownLibrary
AWARDS
Year-LongGrants
Membership,InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton,2013-14
(acceptedforFall2013)
SaundersFellowship,JohnCarterBrownLibrary,BrownUniversity,
2013-14(acceptedforSpring2014)
JohnSimonGuggenheimMemorialFoundationFellowship,2003-04
NEHFellowship,JohnCarterBrownLibrary,BrownUniv.,2001-02
NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities(NEH)Fellowship,1997-98
OtherAwards
KislakFellowship,KlugeCenter,LibraryofCongress,2017
Fellowship,InstitutefortheArtsandHumanities,PennState,2011
FacultyScholarAwardforOutstandingAchievement,Artsand
Humanities,PennState,2007
ResearchGrant,InstitutefortheArtsandHumanities&RGSO,
PennState,2003
Fellowship,GilderLehrmanCenter,YaleUniversity,Fall2001(dec.)
NAVEVisitingScholar,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison,Oct1999
ResearchGrant,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,1999-2000
FacultyFellowship,BostonCollege,Fall1997
ResearchIncentiveGrant,BostonCollege,1996-97
SpringResearchExpenseGrant,BostonCollege,1996
NEH,SummerStipend,1995
EDUCATION
UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles
Ph.D.,History,1992
MA,History,1989
OxfordUniversity,England HonoraryMA,History,1989
BA,Hons.,1stClass,History,1986
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Matthew Restall & Felipe Fernández-Armesto
THE
CONQUISTADORS
A Very Short Introduction
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PUBLICATIONS:BOOKS
2014 ConquistadeBuenasPalabrasydeGuerra:unavisiónindígena
delaconquista(withMichelOudijk).MexicoCity:UNAM.Revised
editionofLaConquistaIndígena.
2013 LosConquistadores(withFelipeFernández-Armesto).Madrid:
AlianzaEditorial.SpanisheditionofTheConquistadors.
2012 TheConquistadors:AVeryShortIntroduction(withFelipe
Fernández-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.
2008 LaConquistaIndígenadeMesoamérica:ElcasodeDon
GonzaloMazatzinMoctezuma(withMichelOudijk).Puebla,
Mexico:SecretaríadeCulturadelGobiernodelEstadodePuebla.
2007 InvadingGuatemala:Spanish,Nahua,andMayaAccountsof
theConquestWars(withFlorineAsselbergs).LatinAmerican
Originals#2.UniversityPark:PennStateUniversityPress.
2006 Setemitosdaconquistaespanhola.RiodeJaneiro:Civilização
Brasileira.PortugueseeditionofSevenMyths.
2005 MesoamericanVoices:Native-LanguageWritingsfrom
CentralMexico,Oaxaca,Yucatan,andGuatemala(editor,
withLisaSousaandKevinTerraciano).Cambridge:Cambridge
UniversityPress.
2005 BeyondBlackandRed:African-NativeRelationsinColonial
LatinAmerica(editor).Diálogosseries.Albuquerque:
UniversityofNewMexicoPress.
2005 Lossietemitosdelaconquistaespañola.Barcelona:Paidós
(PaidósOrígenes#46).SpanisheditionofSevenMyths.
2003 SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.NewYork:Oxford
UniversityPress.Paperback2004.**
2001 MayaSurvivalism(editor,withUeliHostettler).MarktSchwaben,
Germany:VerlagAntonSaurwein(ActaMesoamericanaNo.12).
1998 MayaConquistador.Boston:BeaconPress.Paperback1999.
1998 DeadGiveaways:IndigenousTestamentsofColonial
MesoamericaandtheAndes(editor,withSusanKellogg).Salt
LakeCity:UniversityofUtahPress.
1997 TheMayaWorld:YucatecCultureandSociety,1550-1850.
Stanford:StanfordUniversityPress.Paperbacked.1999.
1995 LifeandDeathinaMayaCommunity:TheIxilTestamentsof
the1760s.Lancaster,CA:Labyrinthos.
*WinneroftheCLAHPrizeforBestBookonMexicanHistoryin2009.
**ListedasoneofthetwelveBestHistoryBooksof2003byTheEconomist
(Dec6-12,2003,p.76).
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PUBLICATIONS:JOURNALARTICLES
[2017]“DroughtanditsDemographicEffectsintheMayaLowlands”
(2ndauthor,withJulieA.Hoggarth,JamesWood,andDouglas
J.Kennett),inCurrentAnthropology58:1(February)
2016 “Moses,Caesar,Hero,Anti-Hero:thePosthumousFacesof
HernandoCortés,”inLeidschrift31:2(May),33-58
n.d. “SlaveryinYucatanandBelize:ContrastingWindowsonto
theAtlanticWorld,”in20/10Historiavol.5:Elmundo
atlánticoylamodernidadiberoamericana(inpress)
2014 “CrossingtoSafety?FrontierFlightinEighteenth-Century
BelizeandYucatan,”inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview,
94:3(August),381-419
2013 “Cook’sPassage:AnEnglishSpyintheYucatan,”inWorld
HistoryConnected,10:1(February)
(worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/)
2012 “TheNewConquestHistory,”inHistoryCompass,vol.10
(history-compass.com/caribbean-latin-america)
2010 “TheMysteriousandtheInvisible:WritingHistoryInandOf
ColonialYucatan,”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 “AHistoryoftheNewPhilologyandtheNewPhilologyin
History,"inLatinAmericanResearchReview,38:1(February),
113-34
2002 “ARe-evaluationoftheAuthenticityofFrayDiegodeLanda’s
RelacióndelascosasdeYucatán”(withJohnF.Chuchiak),in
Ethnohistory,49:3(Summer),651-69
2001 “Filologíayetnohistoria:Unabrevehistoriadela‘nueva
filología’enNorteamérica,”inDesacatos:RevistadeAntropología
Social7(Autumn),85-102
2000 “Otredadyambigüedad:laspercepcionesquelosespañolesy
losmayasteníandelosafricanosenelYucatáncolonial,”in
SignosHistóricos,2:4(July-December),15-38
2000 “BlackConquistadors:ArmedAfricansinColonialSpanish
America,”inTheAmericas,57:2(October),171-205
2000 (withJaneLanders)“TheAfricanExperienceinEarlySpanish
America”(guesteditors’introduction),inTheAmericas,57:2
(October2000),167-70
1998 "TheTiesthatBind:SocialCohesionandtheYucatecMaya
Family,"inTheJournalofFamilyHistory,23:4(October),355-81
(shortlistedforCLAHPrizeforbestjournalarticleonLatin
Americanhistoryin1998)
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PUBLICATIONS
1997 "HeirstotheHieroglyphs:IndigenousLiteracyinColonial
Mesoamerica,"inTheAmericas,54:2(October),239-67
1995 "'Hewisheditinvain':SubordinationandResistanceAmong
MayaWomeninColonialYucatan,"inEthnohistory,42:4(Fall),
577-94
Newspaper&MagazineArticles(invited)
2016 “MontezumaSurrendersintheCapitol,”inTheCapitolDome(Dec
2016-Jan2017)(inpress)
2013 “Mirarseenelespejodelotro:LaConquistadeMéxicoyTheIndian
Queen,”inLaRevistadelReal17(Sept-Nov),6
(www.teatro-real.com/assets)
2011 “Is2012theEndoftheWorldasWeKnowit?”(withAmara
Solari)inTheWashingtonPost,December30
(www.washingtonpost.com/opinions)
2004 “TheSpanishConquestRevisited,”inHistoricallySpeakingV:5
(May/June),2-5
ArticlesasBookChapters
n.d. “MayaEthnogenesisandGroupIdentityinYucatan,1500-1900”
(withWolfgangGabbert),in“TheOnlyTruePeople”:LinkingMayan
IdentitiesPastandPresent,BethanyJ.MyersandLisaLeCount,eds.
Boulder:UniversityPressofColorado(inpress)
2015 “TheIrreplaceableWindow:ReflectionsontheStudyofIndigenous
Wills”(withSusanKellogg),inDeadGiveawaysII:Native
WillsfromtheColonialAmericas,eds.MarkChristensenand
JonathanTruitt.SaltLakeCity:UniversityofUtahPress,242-57
2015 “TheAmericasintheAgeofIndigenousEmpires,”inTheCam-
bridgeWorldHistory,Vol.VI:TheConstructionofaGlobalWorld,
1400-1800,Part1,MerryWiesner-Hanks&SanjaySubrahman-
yam,eds.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,pp.210-42
2014 “Invasion:TheMayaatWar,1520s-1540s,”inEmbattledBodies,
EmbattledPlaces:Conflict,Conquest,andthePerformanceofWar
inPre-ColumbianAmerica,AndrewSchererandJohnVerano,
eds.Washington,DC:DumbartonOaks,pp.93-117
2013 “GasparAntonioChi:BridgingtheConquestofYucatán,”in
TheHumanTraditioninColonialLatinAmerica,2nded.,ed.
KennethJ.Andrien.Lanham,MD:Rowman&Littlefield,pp.13-31
[revisedversionof2002itemlistedbelow]
2012 “Disciplesof‘Nich-ness’,”inCodexNicholson,BrianDervinDillon
andMatthewA.Boxt,eds.CostaMesa:PacificCoast
ArchaeologicalSocietyOccasionalPapers#4,pp.104-06
2012 “Consideracionesfinales.DesenterrandolaColoniaTemprana
enCampeche,”inOrígenesdelasociedadcampechana:Viday
muerteenlaciudaddeCampechedurantelossiglosXVIyXVII,Vera
TieslerandPilarZabala,eds.MexicoCity:UNAM,pp.241-57
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2011 “ImperialRivalries:TheHeartoftheMatter,”inMappingLatinAmerica,JordanaDym
andKarlOffen,eds.Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,pp.79-83
2011 “TheGodsReturn:ConquestandConquestSociety”(withRobertSchwaller),inA
CompaniontoMexicanHistoryandCulture,WilliamH.Beezley,ed.Oxford:Wiley-
Blackwell,pp.195-208
2010 “FinalConsiderations:UnearthingColonialCampeche,”inNatives,Europeans,and
AfricansinColonialCampeche:HistoryandArchaeology,VeraTiesler,PilarZabala,&
AndreaCucina,eds.Gainesville:UniversityPressofFlorida,pp.194-206
2010 “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.155-79
2008 “SpanishCreationoftheConquestofMexico,”inInvasionandTransformation:
InterdisciplinaryPerspectivesontheConquestofMexico,ed.RebeccaP.Brienenand
MargaretJackson.Boulder:UniversityPressofColorado,pp.93-102
2007 “MesoamericanConquistadorsintheSixteenthCentury”(withMichelOudijk),
inIndianConquistadors:IndigenousAlliesintheConquestofMesoamerica,eds.Michel
OudijkandLauraMatthew.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,”in
Nuevasperspectivassobrelageografíapolíticadelosmayas,eds.TsubasaOkoshi
Harada,LorraineWilliams-Beck,andAnaLuisaIzquierdo.MexicoCityandCampeche:
UNAM,UAC,andFAMSI,pp.269-89
2005 “Foreword”toThePostclassictoSpanish-EraTransitioninMesoamerica,Susan
KepecsandRaniAlexander,eds.Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress
2005 “Conquistadoresnegros:africanosarmadosenlatempranaHispanoamérica,”in
PautasdeConvivenciaÉtnicaenlaAméricaLatinaColonial,ed.JuanManueldelaSerna
Herrera.MexicoCity:UNAMandtheGuanajuatoStateGovernment,pp.19-72
2005 “BlackSlaves,RedPaint,”and“BlackSoldiers,NativeSoldiers:MeaningsofMilitary
ServiceintheSpanishAmericanColonies”(withBenVinsonIII),inBeyondBlackand
Red:African-NativeRelationsinColonialLatinAmerica,ed.MatthewRestall.
Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress,pp.1-13and15-52
2005 “WolvesandSheep?Black-MayaRelationsinColonialGuatemalaandYucatan”(with
ChristopherH.Lutz),inBeyondBlackandRed:African-NativeRelationsinColonial
LatinAmerica,ed.MatthewRestall.Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexicoPress,pp.
185-221.ReprintedinAfrodescendientesyesclavitudes#12(August2011)
2004 “EtnogénesisMaya,”inEstrategiasIdentitarias:EducaciónylaAntropologíaHistórica
enYucatán,eds.JuanCastilloCocomandQuetzilE.Castañeda.MexicoCity:
UniversidadPedagógicaNacional,OSEA,&SEP,pp.33-60
2002 “TheRenaissanceWorldfromtheWest:SpanishAmericaandthe‘Real’Renaissance,”
inACompaniontotheWorldsoftheRenaissance,ed.GuidoRuggiero,pp.70-86.
Oxford:Blackwell
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2002 “GasparAntonioChi:BridgingtheConquestofYucatan,”inTheHumanTraditionin
ColonialLatinAmerica,ed.KennethJ.Andrien.Wilmington:ScholarlyResources,
pp.6-21
2001 “LaFalaciadelaLibertad:LaExperiencaAfro-YucatecaenlaEdaddeEsclavitud,”in
RutasdelaEsclavitudenÁfricayAméricaLatina,ed.RinaCáceres.SanJosé:Editorial
delaUniversidaddeCostaRica,pp.289-304
2001 “ThePeopleofthePatio:EthnohistoricalEvidenceofYucatecMayaRoyalCourts,”in
RoyalCourtsoftheAncientMaya:Volume2,eds.TakeshiInomataandStephen
Houston.Boulder:WestviewPress,pp.335-90
2001 “TheMeaningsandMechanicsofMayaSurvivalism”(withUeliHostettler)and“The
JanusFaceofMayaIdentity,”inMayaSurvivalism,eds.UeliHostettlerandMatthew
Restall.MarktSchwaben,Germany:VerlagAntonSaurwein,pp.ix-xivand15-23
2000 "TheTellingofTales:SixYucatecMayaCommunitiesandTheirSpanishPriest,"in
ColonialLives:DocumentsonLatinAmericanHistory,1550-1850,eds.GeofSpurlingand
RichardBoyer.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,pp.27-50
1999 “CalkiníyelCaminoReal:Unpueblomayaylavidaporlacarreteradelacolonia,
1541-1821,”inCalkiní:unahistoriacompartida,ed.LorraineWilliams-Beck.Calkiní,
Camp.:AyuntamientodeCalkiní,pp.60-77
1998 "InterculturationandtheIndigenousTestamentinColonialYucatan,"inDead
Giveaways:IndigenousTestamentsofColonialMesoamericaandtheAndes,eds.Susan
KelloggandMatthewRestall.SaltLakeCity:UniversityofUtahPress,pp.141-62
1997 "Persistenciaculturalmaya:laevidenciadedocumentosnotarialesenelYucatán
colonial,"inPersistenciaculturalentrelosmayasfrentealcambioylamodernidad,eds.
RamónArzápaloMarínandRuthGubler.Mérida,Yucatán:UniversidadAutónomade
Yucatán,pp.41-54
1997 "Work,Marriage,andStatus:MayaWomenofColonialYucatan”(withMartaEspejoPonceHunt),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,"inTheFragmented
Present:MesoamericanSocietiesFacingModernization,eds.RuthGublerandUeli
Hostettler.Möckmühl,Germany:VerlagvonFlemming,pp.53-62
Obituaries
2015 JamesLockhart(1933-2014),(withPeteSigal,StephanieWood,andCaterina
Pizzigoni)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview95:2(May),335-39
2014 JamesLockhart(1933-2014),inTheAmericas,70:4(April),731-33
2012 NeilL.Whitehead(1956-2012),(withMichaelHarkin)inEthnohistory,59:2(Spring)
ReviewEssays
2016 HughThomas’sWorldWithoutEnd(NewYork,2015)inthecontextofacareer
retrospective,inJournalofWorldHistory27:3(May)
2007 “TheDeclineandFalloftheSpanishEmpire?”inTheWilliamandMaryQuarterly,
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series3,54:1(January),183-94
1999 “Los‘conquistadoresmayas’denuestrosdías:idiomayconflictoétnicoenYucatány
Petén,”inMesoamérica,37(June),213-23
1998 "CentralIssues:SocialHistoryandtheRecentStudyofColonialCentralAmerica,"in
LatinAmericanResearchReview,33:2(Spring),207-20
1995 "ImaginingtheMaya:SourcesandScholarship,"inEthnohistory,42:1(Spring),151-58
EncyclopediaEssaysandBibliographies
2016 “ManuelBolio”and“SebastiánToral”[1000wordseach],inDictionaryofCaribbean
andAfro-LatinAmericanBiography,eds.HenryLouisGates,Jr.,andFranklinKnight.
NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.
2016 “DiegodeLandaandtheRelacióndelascosasdeYucatán”[1,000words](with
AmaraSolari),inEncylopediaoftheAncientMaya,ed.WalterR.T.Witschey.
Lanham:Rowman&Littlefield,207-10
2013 “TheNewConquestHistoryandtheNewPhilologyinColonialMesoamerica”(with
RebekahMartin)[9000words],inOxfordBibliographiesOnline:LatinAmericanStudies.
NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress(oxfordbibliographiesonline.com)
2011 “Sixteenth-CenturyNewSpain”[9000words],inOxfordBibliographiesOnline:
AtlanticHistory.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress(oxfordbibliographiesonline.com)
2008 “HernandoCortés”[1,000words],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]in
EncyclopediaofAfrican-AmericanCultureandHistory:TheBlackExperienceinthe
Americas.NewYork:MacmillanReference
2006 “AztecEmpire”[1800words],inEncyclopediaofWesternColonialismsince1450,ed.
ThomasBenjamin.3vols.Detroit:MacmillanReference
2006 “Conquistadors”[2000words],“Cabildo”[500words],and“Cah”[500words]in
EncyclopediaofTransatlanticRelations,ed.MichaelFrancis.Oxford:ABC-Clio
2001 “Cabildo”[1000words]and“Periodicals”(withAlexanderChristensen)[2500words],
inTheOxfordEncyclopediaofMesoamericanCultures.NewYork:OxfordUniversity
Press
1998 "IndigenousPhilologies"[5000words]and"DiegodeLanda"[1000words],in
EncyclopediaofMexico:History,Society,andCulture,ed.MichaelWerner.Chicago:
FitzroyDearborn
BookReviews
n.d. KathleenAnnMyers,IntheShadowofCortés:ConversationsAlongtheRouteof
Conquest(Tucson,2015)inBulletinofLatinAmericanResearch(inpress)
2016 PatrickThomasHajovsky,OnTheLipsofOthers:Moteuczoma’sFameinAztec
MonumentsandRituals(Austin,2015)inEthnohistory63:4,737-38
2016 ColinMacLachlan,ImperialismandtheOriginsofMexicanCulture(Cambridge,MA,
2015)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview96:1(February),155-56
2015 “AsaBloke”:RobertGoodwin,Spain(London,2015),inTimesLiterarySupplement
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SergioQuezada,MayaLordsandLordship:TheFormationofColonialSocietyin
Yucatán,1350-1600(Norman,2014)inTheAmericas72:4,658-60
SylviaSellers-García,DistanceandDocumentsattheSpanishEmpire’sPeriphery
(Stanford,2014)inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies47:4,844-45
RobertW.Patch,IndiansandthePoliticalEconomyofColonialCentralAmerica,
1670-1810(Norman,2013),inAmericanIndianCulture&ResearchJournal39:1,
125-27
MacduffEverton,TheModernMaya:IncidentsofTravelandFriendshipinYucatán
(Austin,2012),inEthnohistory
FelipeFernández-Armesto,OurAmerica:AHispanicHistoryoftheUnitedStates(New
York,2014),inJournalofEarlyAmericanHistory4,277-79
ChristianDuverger,CrónicadelaEternidad:¿QuiénescribiólaHistoriaveraderadela
conquistadelaNuevaEspaña?(Madrid,2013),inMesoamérica
ElizabethGraham,MayaChristiansandTheirChurchesinSixteenth-CenturyBelize
(Gainesville,2011),inWinterthurPortfolio47:4,300-1
JohnF.Chuchiak,TheInquisitioninNewSpain,1536-1820:ADocumentaryHistory
(Baltimore,2012)andLuisCorteguera,DeathbyEffigy:ACasefromtheMexican
Inquisition(Philadelphia,2012),inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies45,823-24
LauraA.Lewis,ChocolateandCornFlour:History,Race,andPlaceintheMakingof
“Black”Mexico(Durham,2012),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview93:4(Nov),
716-17
MatthewO’Hara,AFlockDivided:Race,Religion,andPoliticsinMexico,1749-1857
(Duke,2010),inJournalofSocialHistory45:3(April)
IdaAltman,TheWarforMexico’sWest:IndiansandSpaniardsinNewGalicia,15241550(Albuquerque,2010),inItinerario35:3(December),128-29
WilliamF.Hanks,ConvertingWords:MayaintheAgeoftheCross(Berkeley,2010),in
AnthropologicalLinguistics53:1(Spring),80-81
TimothyW.Knowlton,MayaCreationMyths:WordsandWorldsoftheChilamBalam
(Boulder,2010),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview91:4(Nov),691-92
PatriciaLopesDon,BonfiresofCulture:Franciscans,IndigenousLeaders,andInquisition
inEarlyMexico,1524-1540(Norman,2010),inJournalofLatinAmericanStudies43:4
(November),800-1
DennisTedlock,2000YearsofMayanLiterature(Berkeley,2010)inEthnohistory58:4
(Fall),751-53
HughThomas,TheGoldenAge:TheSpanishEmpireofCharlesV(AllenLane,2010),in
TheTimesLiterarySupplement,No.5644(June3),9
LeslieCecilandTimothyPugh,eds.,MayaWorldviewsatConquest(Boulder,2009),in
JournalofLatinAmericanStudies42:4(November),846-47
BernardodeVargasMachuca,TheIndianMilitiaandDescriptionoftheIndies,KrisLane,
ed.,TimothyF.Johnson,trans.(Durham,2008)inEstudiosInterdisciplinariosde
AmericaLatinayelCaribe21:2(July-Dec.)
(withRobertSchwaller)AndrewB.FisherandMatthewD.O’Hara,eds.,Imperial
Subjects:RaceandIdentityinColonialLatinAmerica(Durham,2009),inSocialHistory
35:2(May),10-11
BernalDíazdelCastillo,TheHistoryoftheConquestofNewSpain,DavídCarrasco,ed.
(Albuquerque,2008)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview(August),526-27
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2010 YannaYannakakis,TheArtofBeingIn-Between:NativeIntermediaries,IndianIdentity,
andLocalRuleinColonialOaxaca(Durham,2008),inSocialHistory35:1(February),
120-21
2009 KathleenAnnMyers,FernándezdeOviedo’sChronicleofAmerica:ANewHistoryfor
aNewWorld(Austin,2007)inAmericanHistoricalReview114:4(October),1138
2009 JorgeCañizares-Esguerra,PuritanConquistadors:IberianizingtheAtlantic,1550-1700
(Stanford,2006),inColonialLatinAmericanReview
2009 DavídCarrascoandScottSessions,eds.,Cave,City,andEagle’sNest:AnInterpretive
JourneythroughtheMapadeCuauhtinchanNo.2(Albuquerque,2007),inTheSixteenth
CenturyJournal
2009 (withMarkChristensen)JohnD.Early,TheMayaandCatholicism:AnEncounterof
Worldviews(Gainesville,2006)inStudiesinReligion/SciencesReligieuses
2008 DavidAbulafia,TheDiscoveryofMankind:AtlanticEncountersintheAgeof
Columbus(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:Eltrabajoforzosoindígenaenel
sistemacolonialyucateco,1540-1730(MexicoCity,2003)andFlorineG.L.Asselbergs,
ConqueredConquistadors:TheLienzodeQuauhquechollan:ANahuavisionofthe
conquestofGuatemala(Leiden,2004)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview86:2
(May),366-69
2006 LauraCasoBarrera,Caminosenlaselva:migración,comercioyresistencia.Mayas
yucatecoseitzaes,siglosXVII-XIX(MexicoCity,2002),andRobertW.Patch,Maya
RevoltandRevolutionintheEighteenthCentury(Armonk&London,2002),inColonial
LatinAmericanReview
2006 DonaldE.Chipman,Moctezuma’sChildren:AztecRoyaltyUnderSpanishRule,15201700(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)in
Itinerario29:2,103-5
2005 IanGraham,AlfredMaudslayandtheMaya:ABiography(Norman,2002),inThe
Americas61:4(April),707-8
2005 SteveGlassman,OntheTrailoftheMayaExplorer:TracingtheEpicJourneyofJohn
LloydStephens(Tuscaloosa,2003)inStudiesinTravelWriting9:1,107-9
2004 LizaBakewellandByronHamann,Mesolore:ExploringMesoamericanCulture(CDROM,2001),inTheAmericas61:2(October),342-43
2004 IraBerlin,GenerationsofCaptivity:AHistoryofAfrican-AmericanSlaves(Cambridge,
MA,2003),inItinerario28:2,185-87
Restallcvp.10
2004 VictoriaR.BrickerandHelga-MariaMiram,AnEncounterofTwoWorlds:TheBookof
ChilamBalamofKaua(NewOrleans,2002)inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview
(November)
2004 DennisTedlock,RabinalAchi:AMayanDramaofWarandSacrifice(Oxford,2003),in
JournalofLatinAmericanAnthropology9:2(Fall),467-68
2004 MagaliM.Carrera,ImaginingIdentityinNewSpain:Race,Lineage,andtheColonial
BodyinPortraitureandCastaPaintings(Austin,2003),inColonialLatinAmerican
Review13:1
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),inMesoamérica45,263-64
2003 AlexD.Krieger,WeCameNakedandBarefoot:TheJourneyofCabezadeVacaacross
NorthAmerica(Austin,2003),onH-NET
2003 MichaelD.CoeandMarkVanStone,ReadingtheMayaGlyphs(London,2001),inThe
Historian65:5,1187-88
2003 BeverlyC.McMillan,CaptivePassage:TheTransatlanticSlaveTradeandtheMakingof
theAmericas(Washington,DC,2002),inItinerario27:1,128-29
2003 SabineMund,Lesrapportscomplexesdel’”HistoriaVerdadera”deBernalDíazavecla
verité(Brussels,2001),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview83:2(May),392-93
2002 LawrenceH.Feldman,ed.,LostShores,ForgottenPeoples:SpanishExplorationsofthe
SouthEastMayaLowlands(Durham,2000),inTheHistorian65:1,167-68
2002 StephenHouston,etal,eds.,TheDeciphermentofAncientMayaWriting(Norman,
2001),inTheAmericas59:1(July)
2002 TerryRugeley,OfWondersandWiseMen:ReligionandPopularCulturesinSoutheast
Mexico,1800-1876(Austin,2001),inTheAmericas58:3(January),490-91
2001 RosemaryA.Joyce,GenderandPowerinPrehispanicMesoamerica(Austin,2000),in
ColonialLatinAmericanHistoricalReview10:1(Winter),154-56
2001 NicholasGriffithsandFernandoCervantes,eds.,SpiritualEncounters:Interactions
betweenChristianityandnativereligionsincolonialAmerica(Birmingham,UK,1999)in
JournalofLatinAmericanStudies33,876-77
2001 RichardE.W.AdamsandMurdoJ.MacLeod,TheCambridgeHistoryoftheNative
PeoplesoftheAmericas,VolumeII:Mesoamerica,Part2(Cambridge,2000),“featured
review”inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview81:2(May),351-55
2001 RolenaAdornoandPatrickCharlesPautz,eds.,AlvarNúñezCabezadeVaca:His
Account,HisLife,andtheExpeditionofPánfilodeNarváez(Lincoln,1999)inThe
Americas57:4(April),591-93
2000 RichardE.W.AdamsandMurdoJ.MacLeod,TheCambridgeHistoryoftheNative
PeoplesoftheAmericas,VolumeII:Mesoamerica,Part2(Cambridge,2000)inLatin
AmericanAntiquity11:4(December)
2000 PedrodeCiezadeLeón,TheDiscoveryandConquestofPeru:ChroniclesoftheNew
WorldEncounter,AlexandraParmaCookandNobleDavidCook,eds.(Durham,1998)
inEthnohistory47:3-4(Summer-Fall),838-40
1999 RobertS.Carlsen,TheWarfortheHeartandSoulofaHighlandMayaTown(Austin,
1997),andBettyBerniceFaust,MexicanRuralDevelopmentandthePlumedSerpent:
Restallcvp.11
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1998
1998
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1997
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1996
1995
1994
1993
TechnologyandMayaCosmologyintheTropicalForestofCampeche,Mexico(Westport,
1998)inAmericanEthnologist,26:1
FrederickW.Lange,ed.,PathstoCentralAmericanPrehistory(Niwot,1996),inColonial
LatinAmericanHistoricalReview,7:1(Winter),65-66
RobertM.Carmack,RebelsofHighlandGuatemala:TheQuiché-MayasofMomostenango
(Norman,1995),inEthnohistory,45:1(Winter),154-55
RobertJ.Sharer,DailyLifeinMayaCivilization(Westport,1996),andTheAncient
Maya:FifthEdition(Stanford,1994),inTheAmericas,54:3(January),443-45
KarenDakinandChristopherH.Lutz,NuestroPesar,nuestroaflicción:memoriasen
lenguaNáhuatlenviadasaFelipeIIporindígenasdelvalledeGuatemalahacia1572
(MexicoCity,1996),inTheAmericas,54:3(Jan.),447-48
WilliamB.Taylor,MagistratesoftheSacred:PriestsandParishionersinEighteenthCenturyMexico(Stanford,1996),inJournalofChurch&State,39:3(Summer),592-93
LouiseM.Burkhart,HolyWednesday:ANahuaDramafromEarlyColonialMexico
(Philadelphia,1996),inTheAmericas,53:3(January),439-40
ElizabethHillBooneandWalterD.Mignolo,eds.,WritingWithoutWords:Alternative
LiteraciesinMesoamerica&theAndes(Durham,1994),inEthnohistory,43:2(Spring),
350-52
JudithM.MaxwellandCraigA.Hanson,OftheMannersofSpeakingThattheOldOnes
Had:TheMetaphorsofAndrésdeOlmosIntheTULALManuscript(SaltLakeCity,1992),
inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview75:1(February),99-100
FloraS.ClancyandPeterD.Harrison,eds.,VisionandRevisioninMayaStudies
(Albuquerque,1990),inHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview74:3(Aug.),508-9
FranceScholes,EleanorAdams,andFrankComparato,eds.,DocumentsRelatingtothe
MironesExpeditiontotheInteriorofYucatan,1621-1624(CulverCity,1991)andMary
H.Preuss,ed.,Past,Present,andFuture:SelectedPapersonLatinAmericanIndian
Literatures(CulverCity,1991),inEthnohistory,40:2(Spring),332-34
Dissertation
"TheWorldoftheCah:PostconquestYucatecMayaSociety."Ph.D.dissertation,Universityof
California,LosAngeles,1992
GraduateSchoolPublications
(withPeteSigal)"'Maytheynotbefornicatorsequaltothesepriests':PostconquestYucatec
MayaSexualAttitudes."IndigenousWritingintheSpanishIndies(UCLAHistorical
Journal,vol.12):91-121,1993
(withKevinTerraciano)"IndigenousWritinginColonialMexico."IndigenousWritinginthe
SpanishIndies(UCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.12):8-28,1993
"YaxkukulRevisited:DatingandCategorizingaControversialMayaLandDocument."UCLA
HistoricalJournal,vol.11:114-130,1991
"TheHeartToRule:ElectionDocumentsinYucatecMaya,1612,1706,and1812,"UCLA
HistoricalJournal,vol.10:109-121,1990
"TheTroubleWithAndresMexia:Sixteenth-CenturyDocumentsinYucatecMaya,"UCLA
HistoricalJournal,vol.9:62-78,1989
ReviewofPaulSullivan,UnfinishedConversations:MayasandForeignersBetweenTwo
Restallcvp.12
Wars(NewYork,1989)andGrantD.Jones,MayaResistancetoSpanishRule:Time
andHistoryonaColonialFrontier(Albuquerque,1989),inUCLAHistoricalJournal,vol.
11(1991):159-64
ReviewofIdaAltman,EmigrantsandSociety.ExtremaduraandSpanishAmericainthe
SixteenthCentury(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.LifeWith
TheContras,theSandinistas,andtheCIA(NewYork,1989),inUCLAHistoricalJournal,
vol.9(1989):100-103
PRESENTATIONS
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2016
2016
2015
2015
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2013
2013
2013
2012
InvitedPresentations:TalksandLectures
“’Therewasatimewhenwewerefriends’:LasCasas,Cortés,andtheConquest
Wars.”KeynotetalkatthesymposiumonLasCasas:History,Philosophy,and
TheologyintheAgeofEuropeanExpansion,ProvidenceCollege,October
“MapsandMassacres.”TalkgivenatthespecialIndigenousPasturessymposium,
PennStateUniversity,April
“MontezumaSurrendersintheU.S.Capitol:TheHistoryofOneofHistory’sBiggest
Lies.”TalkgivenatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity,March
“TheNewConquestHistory:itsimplicationsforMexico,Guatemala,andColombia.”
Twotalks&workshopstobegiveninBogotá,attheColombianInstituteforHistory
andAnthropology,September
“Encounter.”JCBxtalkgivenatBrownUniversity,May
“MakingEndsMeet:ANewLookattheGreatEncounterBetweenCortésand
Montezuma.”TalkgivenatYaleUniversity,October
“TurningCortésandMontezumaUpsideDown.”KeynotetalkgiventotheSociety
forLatinAmericanStudies(UK),50thAnniversarymeeting,London,April
[www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/politics-development-human-rights/turningcortes-and-moctezuma-upside-down]
“TheLastEmperor,or,TheMeeting:CortésandMontezumaRevisited.”Talkgiven
attheJohnCarterBrownLibrary,BrownUniversity,Providence,March
"HowImaginaryMeetingsChangeHistory(TwoCaseStudiesfromNewSpain).”
TalkgiventotheEighteenthCenturySeminar,PrincetonUniversity,andthe
InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton,November
“TheSpanishConquestTurnedUpsideDown.”TalkgivenatOhioWesleyanUniversity,
April
“MythsandMisconceptionsoftheAncientMaya.”TalkgivenwithAmaraSolaritothe
UniversityClub,PennState,April
“TheEndisNear(orIsIt?).”PresentationmadeindowntownSpringfield,MO,in
connectionwithMissouriStateUniversityandthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyfor
Ethnohistory,November
Restallcvp.13
2012 “MayaApocalypse.”PresentationmadewithAmaraSolariattheUniversityof
California,SantaBarbara,November
2012 “2012:TheEndisNear(orIsn’t).”TalkgivenatYorkCollegeofPennsylvania,October
2012 “TheConquistadors.”TalkgivenatLycomingCollege,September
2012 “2012,theMayaandtheEndoftheWorld.”PresentationmadeatAssumptionCollege,
April
2012 “TheMaya,theWest,andThisYear’sApocalypse.”Presentationmadeatthe
UniversityofTennessee,February
2011 “MayaApocalypse:1562or2012?”PresentationmadewithAmaraSolariatCarnegie
MellonUniversity,November
2011 “Invasion:TheMayaatWar:1520s-1540s.”PresentationatthesymposiumConflict,
Conquest,andthePerformanceofWarinPre-ColumbianAmerica,DumbartonOaks,
October
2011 “WhytheWorldWillEnd(orWon’t)in2012:TheWesternRootsoftheMaya
Apocalypse.”PresentationmadeatWashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,September
2011 “TheEndoftheWorld:PredictedbyMayans,ConfirmedbyScience?”Presentation
madeatAlbrightCollege,September
2011 SeriesofthreepresentationsonMayahistory,NEHSummerSeminar,Coba,Yucatan,
July
2011 “SpicyEnough?TheHistoryofChocolate,1000BC-1828AD.”Presentationmadewith
AmaraSolariatthePennStateSymposiumonChocolate,April
2011 “2012andtheEndoftheWorld.”PresentationmadeattheUniversityofMiami,
February
2010 “AretheMayaReallyAfro-Maya?(TheLostHistoryofAfro-Yucatan).”Presentation
madetotheUniversityofCincinnati,April
2010 “WhyHistoriansSteal:Ethics,Method,andHistory.”PresentationmadeatPenn
State,February
2010 “TheLostHistoryofAfro-Yucatan.”PresentationmadeattheUniversityofSouthern
California,February
2009 “TheForgottenHistoryofAfro-Yucatan.”PresentationmadeattheCollegeofWilliam&
Mary,October
2009 “BlackYucatan:TheAfricanDiasporaofColonialMexicoandItsForgottenHistory.”
PresentationmadeattheUniversityofCaliforniaatDavis,April
2009 “TheForgottenHistoryofBlackYucatan.”PresentationmadeatStanfordUniversity,
April
2009 “MayaMatters.”PaperpresentedtotheInternationalSeminarontheHistoryof
theAtlanticWorld,1500-1825,HarvardUniversity,March
2009 “TheForgottenHistoryofBlackYucatan.”PresentationmadeatJohnsHopkins
University,February
2009 “WhatistheNewConquestHistory?”PresentationmadeatLoyolaCollege,Baltimore,
February
2009 “TheForgottenHistoryofAfricansinYucatan(Mexico).”Presentationmadeat
CaliforniaUniversityofPennsylvania,February
2008 “TheSpanishInvasion:WhatistheNewConquestHistory?”Presentationmadeatthe
UniversityofOregon,November
2008 “MesoamericanVoices.”PresentationmadeintheMomentsofChangeseries,Penn
State,February
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2007 “DebunkingtheMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationmadeatRoanoke
College,November
2006 FourdaysofworkshoppresentationsforanNEHSummerInstituteon“MayaWorldsof
Chiapas,Guatemala,HondurasandBelize,”GeorgeScheperandLaraineFletcher,orgs.,
BelmopanandotherlocationsinBelize,July
2005 “MayasandAfricans.”PresentationmadetothePre-ColumbianSociety,Universityof
PennsylvaniaMuseumofAnthropology,May
2005 “MayasandAfricans.”PresentationmadeattheInstituteofHistoricalResearch,
Queen’sCollege,UniversityofLondon,April
2005 “Spanish-IndigenousRelations:MythsoftheConquest.”Presentationmadeatthe
InstitutoCervantes,London,April
2005 “SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”SeriesoffivetalksmadetothePrologue
Society(PalmBeach,NorthPalm,BocaRaton,Stuart,andMiamichapters),January
andFebruary
2004 “EthnohistoryandAfrohistory.”PresentationmadeatTulaneUniversity,November
2004 “SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationmadeatVanderbiltUniversity,
April
2003 “Manuel’sWorlds”and“AfricansinSpanishAmerica.”Presentationsmadeatthe
UniversityofMiami,October
2003 “SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationandbooksigningatBarnes&
Noble,StateCollege,September
2003 “LandayCalkiní:Desafíosysorpresasdelacomparacióntextualytraducción.”
PresentationmadetotheDireccióndeEstudiosHistóricosoftheInstitutoNacional
deAntropologíaeHistoria,MexicoCity,May
2003 “TheBlackMiddle:Slavery,Society,andAfrican-MayaRelationsinColonialYucatan.”
PresentationmadetotheInstituteforArtsandHumanities,PennState,March
2003 “TheKing’sArmyThatNeverWasandOtherMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”
PresentationmadeattheUnitedStatesMilitaryAcademy,WestPoint,February
2002 “TheApotheosisofCaptainCortés.”PresentationmadeastheDelbertMcQuade
HistoryLectureatJuniataCollege,October
2002 "Cook'sPassage:AnEnglishman'sJourneyintoYucatanin1765."Presentationmade
totheJohnCarterBrownLibraryfellowsandassociates,BrownUniversity,June
2002 "AfricansandMayasinColonialGuatemalaandYucatan."PresentationmadeatBard
College,Annandale-on-Hudson,May
2002 "ApesandMen:TheMythofSuperiority."PresentationmadeattheLatinAmerican
HistoryWorkshop,PrincetonUniversity,February
2002 "SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest."PresentationmadetotheJohnCarterBrown
Libraryfellowsandassociates,BrownUniversity,February
1999 “TheUndiscoveredConquistadors.”AseriesofthreepresentationsmadeastheNAVE
lecturesattheUniversityofWisconsin,Madison,October
1999 “SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.”PresentationmadetotheDepartmentof
History,UniversityofNorthFlorida,September
1998 “TheOtherSideofConquest:SpaniardsandMayasintheSixteenthCentury.”
PresentationmadetotheJohnCarterBrownLibraryfellows,BrownUniversity,
September
1997 "TheAlternativeHistoryoftheSpanishConquest:YucatanasaCaseStudy."
PresentationmadetotheDepartmentofArchaeology,BostonUniversity,October
Restallcvp.15
1997 "TheCaseoftheMissingMayas:TheNewPhilologyandtheDiscoveryofColonial
Mesoamerica."PresentationmadetotheDepartmentofAnthropology,State
UniversityofNewYorkatAlbany,February
1997 "TheTiesthatBind:SocialCohesionandtheYucatecMayaFamily."Presentationmade
totheBostonAreaHistoryWorkshop,HarvardUniversity,February
1996 "ClassinMayaSociety:Colonial-EraEvidence."Presentationmadetoagraduate
seminarintheDepartmentofArchaeology,BostonUniversity,October
1996 "IsThereSuchaThingasEthnicity?ViewsfromAnthropologyandHistory."
PresentationmadewithMartinDiskintotheBostonAreaConsortiumonLatin
America,HarvardUniversity,March
1994 "PerspectivesonMayaCivilization."PresentationmadetotheDepartmentofHistory,
CentralTexasUniversity,April
1992 "PostconquestYucatecMayaCultureandSociety:theEvidenceofNotarialDocuments."
PresentationmadetotheAztecTertulia,UCLA,February
InvitedPresentations:Film,Television,andRadio
2016 GuestonMelvynBragg’sInOurTime,episodeon“TheMaya,”tobroadcastliveonBBC
Radio4,3/10
2014 InterviewsegmentsforBBCRadio4series,Debt,episodeontheEarlyModernWorld,to
befirstbroadcastSpring2015
2013 Interviewsegmentsfor“TheNewWorld”episodeoftheseriesAmerica:FactsvsFiction,
filmedinPhiladelphia,firstbroadcastonTheMilitaryChannel,8/13
2011 Interviewsegmentabout2012andtheEndoftheWorld(withAmaraSolari)onWPSX
(radio),firstbroadcast2/11
2007 InterviewsegmentsinAztecsRevealed,adocumentaryfilmbyFireflyProductions;
segmentsfilmedinMexicoCity7/07;firstbroadcastintheUK(Channel5)9/07,inthe
US(PBS)11/07,withDVDrelease12/07
2005 SegmentsonCortésandPizarrofor“GlobalView,”ontheHistoryChannelInternational,
filmedinNewYorkCity,October&November;firstbroadcast11/05
2003 InterviewaboutSevenMythsoftheSpanishConqueston“TakeNote,”WPSX
(television);firstbroadcast10/03;availableonlineatrestall.takenote.psu.edu
ConferencePapers
2015 “Montezuma’sRevenge.”PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmerican
HistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,January
2015 “EncounterandEthnohistory.”RoundtablepresentationmadetotheAmerican
HistoricalAssociation,January
2013 “GasparAntonioChiandBelize:ATaleofTwoTemptations.”Presentationmade
attheUniversityofPennsylvania,attheThirdYucataninPARoundtable,March
2013 “LoveandAngerinYucatanandBelize.”PaperpresentedtotheConferenceon
LatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,NewYorkCity,
January
2012 “LandaandtheEndoftheWorld.”PaperpresentedattheInternationalCongressof
Americanists,Vienna,July
2011 “2012andYucatan.”PresentationmadeatPennState,attheSecondYucataninPA
Restallcvp.16
Roundtable,February
2010 “ImperialRivalries:TheMollMapoftheCaribbean(TheHeartoftheMatter).”Paper
presentedattheAmericanAssociationofGeographersmeeting,Washington,April
2009 “TheColonialComplexoftheYucatan-Belize-GuatemalaBorderlands.”Paper
presentedattheInternationalCongressofAmericanists,MexicoCity,July
2008 “ADayintheLife(ofEighteenth-CenturyMayas).”PaperpresentedattheEuropean
CongressofMayanists,Paris,December
2008 “ReturntoIxil.”Paperpresented,withMarkChristensen,attheAmericanSocietyfor
Ethnohistory,Eugene,November
2008 “YucatanandBelize:ANewHistoryofaForgottenFrontier.”Paperpresentedatthe
FEEGImeeting,Georgetown,February
2007 “HowYucatan’sMayasBecameAfro-Mayas.”Paperpresentedatthemeetingofthe
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tulsa,November
2007 “TheBlackMiddle.”Presentationmadeataspecialconference,theFirstAnnual
Yucatan/PARoundtable,PennStateUniversity,October
2004 “MayasinMerida'sMeltingPot:EthnogenesisintheEighteenthCentury.”Paper
prepared(butnotpresented)attheEuropeanMayanistsConference,Bonn,December
2004 “Manuel’sWorlds,Richard’sWorlds:BlackYucatanandtheColonialCaribbean.”Paper
presentedatthespecialconference,BetweenRaceandPlace:BlacksandBlacknessin
CentralAmericaandtheMainlandCaribbean,TulaneUniversity,November
2004 “TheDynamicsofAfrican-MayaInteractioninColonialYucatanandGuatemala.”
Papertopresentedatthespecialconference,NewDirectionsinNorthAmerican
ScholarshiponAfro-Mexico,PennStateUniversity,October
2004 “PeopleasProperty:AfricanSlaveryinLateColonialYucatan.”Paperpresentedat
theLatinAmericanStudiesAssociationconference,LasVegas,October
2003 “TheMysteriousandtheInvisible:WritingHistoryinandofColonialYucatan.”
PaperpresentedtotheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,Chicago,November
2003 “MythsoftheSpanishConquest,asseenthroughtheKislakConquestofMexico
Paintings.”Paperpresentedatthespecialconference,“InvasionandTransformation:
InterdisciplinaryPerspectivesonImagesoftheConquestofMexico,”Universityof
Miami,March
2002 “GenresandMethodsintheStudyofMayasandAfricansofColonialYucatan.”
PaperpresentedatthespecialconferenceonSourcesandMethodsintheEthnohistory
ofMesoamerica,UCLA,October
2002 “AgonyasEntertainment:RitualViolenceandPublicExecutionsinSpanishAmerica.”
PaperpresentedatthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,QuebecCity,
October
2002 "TelescopesandCorkscrews:ColonialMayaConceptionsofTime."Paperpresented
tothePennHumanitiesForumandthePennUniversityMuseum20thAnnualMaya
Weekend,Philadelphia,April
2002 “Women’sNetworksinColonialYucatan.”PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatin
AmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,SanFrancisco,January
2001 “MistakingtheConquest:MichaelWood’sConquistadors.”Paperpresentedatthe
meetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tucson,October
2000 “CrossingtheCulturalDivide:TheExtraordinaryLifeandTimesofGasparAntonio
Chi.”PaperpresentedatthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,London,
Ontario,October
Restallcvp.17
2000 “TheJanusFaceofMayaIdentity.”Paperpresentedtothe50thInternationalCongress
ofAmericanists,Warsaw,July
2000 “MayaEthnogenesis,1500-1850.”PaperpresentedtotheLatinAmericanStudies
Association,Miami,March
2000 “CasteofCharacters:Race,Ethnicity,andIdentityamongMayas,Blacks,andSpaniards
inEighteenth-CenturyYucatan.”PaperpresentedtotheRockyMountainCouncilon
LatinAmericanStudies,SantaFe,January
1999 “AlterityandAmbiguity:SpanishandMayaPerceptionsofAfricansinColonial
Yucatan.”PaperpresentedtotheTenthReunionofMexicanists,Dallas,November
1999 “TheFallacyofFreedom:TheAfro-YucatecanExperienceintheAgeof
Slavery.”PaperpresentedtotheUNESCOconferenceonLaRutadelEsclavoen
Hispanoamérica,SanJosé,CostaRica,February
1999 "WereThereAfro-YucatecansintheColonialPeriod?"Paperpresentedtothe
ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,
WashingtonDC,January
1998 "Bloodliners:Ethnicity,Class,andtheOriginMythologyofMayaLineagesbeforeand
aftertheConquest."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,
Philadelphia,December
1998 "ElMitodeOrigenesylaHistoriadeClases:LosChibalobenYucatánColonial."Paper
presentedtotheIVCongresoInternacionaldeMayistas,Antigua,Guatemala,August
1997 "TheIdentityNexusinLate-ColonialYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheNortheast
AmericanSocietyforEighteenthCenturyStudies,Boston,December
1997 "MultivocalityinArchitecture,Image,andNative-LanguageTextsinColonialSouthern
Mesoamerica."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,
WashingtonDC,November
1997 "TheWoundedHands:MayaRepresentationsoftheViolenceofConquestand
ColonizationinYucatanandGuatemala."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyfor
Ethnohistory,MexicoCity,November
1997 "LaculturadeasentamientoenlasociedadmayadelYucatáncolonial."Paper
presentedtothe49thInternationalCongressofAmericanists,Quito,Ecuador,July
1997 "RiskyBusiness:TheImpactofSpanishColonialismuponMayaGubernatorial
Legitimacy."PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandthe
AmericanHistoricalAssociation,NewYorkCity,January
1996 "AnHistoricalPerspectiveonCultureChangeinColonialYucatan."Paperpresentedto
theAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,SanFrancisco,November
1996 "TheRunawaySlaveandtheMayaPostman:African-MayaRelationsinColonial
Yucatan."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Portland,
November
1996 "IdentityandLegitimacy:theRulersandtheRuledinColonialYucatan."Paper
presentedtothePacificCoastandRockyMountainCouncilsonLatinAmericanStudies,
SantaFe,March
1995 "'Repugnantthedifference':TheRolesofRace,Gender,Sexuality,andLoveinPersonal
RelationsinColonialYucatan."PaperpresentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmerican
HistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,Chicago,January
1994 "ToLiveandDieintheYucatecMayaWorld:TheIndigenousTestamentasaUseful
EthnohistoricalSource."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,
Tempe,November
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1994 "YucatecMayaResponsesto'Modernization':theColonialPeriod."Paperpresentedto
the48thInternationalCongressofAmericanists,Stockholm/Uppsala,Sweden,July
1994 "'ThisChangeofRulers':MayaViewsoftheConquestofYucatan."Paperpresentedto
theRockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies,FortWorth,February
1993 "'Hewisheditinvain':SubordinationandResistanceAmongMayaWomeninColonial
Yucatan."PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Bloomington,
November
1992 "BetweenStoneMounds:TheMayaPerspectiveontheIntracolonialFrontier."Paper
presentedtotheConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistorical
Association,WashingtonDC,December
1992 "Protection,Permission,andProhibition:MayaSexualityinPostconquestYucatan."
PaperpresentedtotheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,SaltLakeCity,November
1991 "GenderandStatusinPostconquestMayaSociety."PaperpresentedtotheAmerican
SocietyforEthnohistory,Tulsa,November
1991 "MayaCulturalPersistence:TheEvidenceofNotarialDocumentsinColonialYucatec."
Paperpresentedtothe47thInternationalCongressofAmericanists,NewOrleans,July
1991 "FormatandInterpretation:TheMayaTestamentsofIxil,Yucatan."Paperpresentedto
the9thInternationalSymposiumoftheLatinAmericanIndianLiteraturesAssociation,
Quito,Ecuador,June
ConferencePanelCommentaries
2013 ontwopanelsattheASEmeeting,NewOrleans,September
2013 onthepanel“NewBranchesontheFamilyTree:TalesofKith&KininColonial
SpanishAmerica”attheCLAH/AHAmeeting,NewYorkCity,January
2012 ontwopanelsattheASEmeeting,Springfield,MO,October
2011 onthepanel“ChoiceandConsequenceinCentralAmericanSlaves’Lives”atthe
SouthernHistoricalAssociationmeeting,Baltimore,October
2011 onthepanel“TheManyConquestsofMexico”attheCLAH/AHAmeeting,Boston,
January
2010 ontheroundtable“WhatistheNewConquestHistory?”attheASEmeeting,
Ottawa,October
2010 introductiontothedocumentaryfilmRuinsattheFilmFestival,AHAmeeting,San
Diego,January
2009 onthepanel,“GlobalPerspectivesandLocalUnderstandingsinHistorical
NarrativesabouttheConquestofMexico,”attheCLAH/AHAmeeting,NewYork,
January
2008 onthepanel“IndianConquistadors:NativePeoplesintheConquestsof
Mesoamerica,”andonthepanel“ThePastinthePresent:IndigenousPeoplesand
CommemorationinNorth,Central,andSouthAmerica,”atthemeetingoftheAmerican
SocietyforEthnohistory,Eugene,November
2006 onthepanel“MakingSenseoftheOtherinNewSpain”atthemeetingofthe
AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Williamsburg,November
2003 onthepanel“NewApproachestoAfricanEthnicity,IdentityandCultureinSpanish
America”atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Riverside,November
2001 onthepanel“RitualsofGenderandPowerinColonialMexico”attheCLAH/AHA
meeting,Boston,January(preparedbutnotdelivered)
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2000 onthe“Ethnicity”panelatACountryUnlikeAnyOther?:NewPerspectivesonHistoryin
Yucatán,YaleUniversity,November
2000 onthepanel“IndiansandSlavesinNewGranadaandQuito,16thto18thCenturies”
atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,London,Ontario,October
2000 onthepanel“IndigenousMerchantsinSixteenth-CenturyMesoamerica”atthe
RockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudiesmeeting,SantaFe,January
1999 onthepanel“MakingDo:NativeMesoamericanandColonial/National-EraChristianity”
atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Mashantucket,October
1998 onthepanel“SpatialConnections:NewExplorationsofYucatecMayaCulture,Colonial
andModern”atthemeetingoftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Minneapolis,
November
1997 onthepanel"InterethnicInteractioninColonialMexicoandGuatemala"atthemeeting
oftheAmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,MexicoCity,November
1996 onthepanel"GenderandRaceacrossColonialNewSpain"atthemeetingofthePacific
CoastandRockyMountainCouncilsonLatinAmericanStudies,SantaFe,March
ConferencePanelsOrganized
2016 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Nashville,November
2012 InternationalCongressofAmericanists,Vienna,July
2010 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Ottawa,October
2009 InternationalCongressofAmericanists,MexicoCity,July
2007 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tulsa,November;co-organizedaseriesofsix
panelsonColonialMesoamerica
2007 organizedaspecialconference,theFirstAnnualYucatan/PARoundtable,PennState
University,October
2005 ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,
Seattle,January
2004 co-organizedaspecialconference,NewDirectionsinNorthAmericanScholarshipon
Afro-Mexico,PennStateUniversity,October
2002 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,QuebecCity,October
2001 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tucson,October
2001 ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,
Boston,January
2000 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Ontario,October
2000 InternationalCongressofAmericanists,Warsaw,July
1998 AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,Philadelphia,December
1998 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Minneapolis,November
1997 NortheastAmericanSocietyforEighteenthCenturyStudies,Boston,December
1997 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,MexicoCity,November
1996 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Portland,November
1994 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,Tempe,November
1994 RockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies,FortWorth,February
1992 ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistoryandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,
Washington,December
1992 AmericanSocietyforEthnohistory,SaltLakeCity,November
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WORKINPROGRESS
BookProjects
TheMeeting:ATrueStoryofMoctezuma,Cortés,andtheSpanish-AztecWar.NewYork:
Ecco/HarperCollins[Undercontractandsubmitted;inpressreview;representationby
WritersHouseliteraryagency].
TheMaya:AVeryShortIntroduction.WithAmaraSolari.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress
[Undercontract,inpreparation,dueforsubmissionin2017].
SetteMitidellaConquistaSpagnola.Milan:21Editore[ItalianeditionofSevenMythsofthe
SpanishConquest,dueoutin2017].
[PolisheditionofSevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest.]Warsaw:Bellona.[Dueoutin2017.]
Spanish-languageeditionofTheBlackMiddle:Africans,Mayas,andSpaniardsinColonial
Yucatan.MexicoCity:FondodeCulturaEconómica[inpreparationbythepress;due
outin2017].
[BulgarianeditionofTheConquistadors.]Sofia:Ashur.[Dueoutin2017.]
LandofMakeBelize[amonographontheearlyhistoryofBelize,inprogress;possiblytobe
thethirdvolumeinatrilogyonthecolonial-eragreaterYucatanpeninsula].
TheLivesandDeedsoftheLieutenantNun.WithMiguelMartínez[bookprojectinprogress,
intendedforLatinAmericanOriginalsseries].
RelacióndelascosasdeYucatán,porfrayDiegodeLanda.Editor,withJohnF.Chuchiak
[FacsimileandSpanish-languageedition].MexicoCity:UniversidadNacional
AutónomadeMéxico[forthcoming].
TheFriarandtheMaya:FrayDiegodeLanda’sRelacióndelasCosasdeYucatán.Editor,with
JohnF.Chuchiak,AmaraSolari,andTraciArdren[English-languageedition,in
progress].
ReturntoIxil.WithMarkChristensen[Inprogress].
TheLifeandTimesofGasparAntonioChi[bookprojectinprogress].
ArticlesandPapers
“ViolenceandWarintheColonialAmericas,”inVol.3oftheCambridgeWorldHistoryof
Violence(PhilipDwyer,generaled.)[undercontractandinprogress;volumes
scheduledfor2018pub.]
“ColonialYucatecMayaLiterature”(withMarkChristensen),inHandbookofMiddleAmerican
Indians,revisedvolumeonLiteratures[essaycompleted2005;volumeundercontract
withUniversityofTexasPress2003-2013;currentlyinlimbo]
“AGuidetoWrittenColonialMaya,IncludingaColonialMaya-EnglishDictionary”
[incompletearticlemanuscript,usedasateachingtoolsince2001]
TEACHING
ClassesOffered
Professor&SparksProfessor,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,2004-present:
survey:“TheAtlanticWorldinEarlyModernTimes”;“WorldHistory(since1500)”
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advanced:“ColonialVoices:Spaniards,Africans,andNativeAmericans”;“Empires”
(Honorscourse,taughtwithGarrettFagan)*;“TheConquistadors”;“TheEndoftheWorld”
(Honorscourse,taughtwithAmaraSolari)*
graduate:“LatinAmericanSocialHistory,1500-1900”;“Ethnohistory:Colonial
MesoamericanSocieties”;“EthnohistoryandAfrohistory:ColonialLatinAmerican
Societies”;“Maya,Nahuatl,andPaleography”;“MayaHistory”;“ModernLatinAmerican
History”;“EarlyModernIberiaandtheAmericas”(taughtwithBradBouley)
AssociateProfessor,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,1998-2004:
survey:“TheAtlanticWorldinEarlyModernTimes”
intermediate:“Culture,Race,andSocialStructureinColonialLatinAmerica”
advanced:“TheConquestsofMexicoandYucatan”;“SocialHistoryofMexico”;“Maya
History”;“CultureandConquestinSpanishAmerica”;“Empires”
graduate:“ColonialLatinAmericanSocialHistory”;“MarriageandSocietyinColonial
Mexico”;“RaceandGenderinLatinAmerica”;“AnIntroductiontoNahuatlandMaya”;
“NahuatlandPaleography”;“SevenMythsoftheSpanishConquest”;“Cohesionand
DissentinLatinAmericanSocieties,SixteenthtoNineteenthCenturies”
AssistantProfessor,BostonCollege,1995-98:
survey:"EuropeandtheAmericas"
intermediate:"Culture,EthnicityandSocialStructureinColonialLatinAmerica,”
revisedas“Race,Culture,andSocialStructureinColonialLatinAmerica”
advanced:"ASocialHistoryofMexico";"TheStudy&WritingofHistory:The
ConquestsofMexico&Peru";"LatinAmericanHistorythroughFilm,Music,and
Literature"
graduate:"Race,Gender,andIdentityinColonialLatinAmerica"
AssistantProfessor,SouthwesternUniversity,1993-95:
survey:"WorldCivilizations"
intermediate:"Culture,Ethnicity,andSocialStructureinColonialLatinAmerica"
advanced:"ASocialHistoryofMexico";"FromPyramidstoPersecution:A2,000YearHistoryoftheMaya";"Race,RankandRevoltinModernLatinAmerica";
"GenderandSexualityinLatinAmerica"
TeachingAssistant/Associate,UCLA,1988-90:
"LatinAmericanSocialHistory";"LatinAmerica:ReformandRevolution";"Central
America:TheStruggleforChange";"CentralAmericaandMexico"
*”Empires”and“TheEndoftheWorld”bothsupportedbyCollaborativeTeachingGrantsfrom
PennState’sInstitutefortheArtsandHumanities
PhDDissertationsDirected(andPlacementofGraduates)
ScottCave,“Cross-CulturalCommunicationintheSpanishAtlanticFrontier,1470-1570.”
PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2017(expected)
RebekahMartin,“RitualMedicineinaColonialSociety:InquisitionalEncountersinYucatan
andtheSouthernGulfCoast,1620-1820.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,
2016.Dr.Martinwalksthismonth(May)andiscurrentlyalectureratPennState.
SpencerDelbridge,“MexicanGenesis:Religion,Race,andthePoliticsofOriginsin
Nineteenth-CenturyYucatán.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2013.Dr.
DelbridgeistheExecutiveDirectoroftheFloridaInstituteforCommunityStudies.
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MarkChristensen,“NahuaandMayaCatholicisms.”PhDdissertation,History,Penn
State,2010.Dr.Christensenisatenure-trackassistantprofessoratAssumption
College.HisdissertationwaspublishedasNahuaandMayaCatholicismsbyStanford
UniversityPressin2013,andhehassincepublishedtwoadditionalbooks,witha
fourthinpresswiththeUniversityofTexasPress.
RobertSchwaller,“DefiningDifferenceinEarlyNewSpain.”PhDdissertation,History,
PennState,2010.Dr.Schwallerisatenure-trackassistantprofessorattheUniversity
ofKansas.Hisdissertation-basedmonographisinpresswiththeUniversityof
OklahomaPress.
MarkLentz,“AssassinationinYucatan:YucatecansBeforetheLaw.”PhDdissertation,
History,TulaneUniversity(co-directorwithSusanSchroeder),2009.Dr.Lentzis
atenure-trackassistantprofessoratUtahValleyUniversity.Hisdissertation-based
monographisinpresswiththeUniversityofNewMexicoPress.
JasonFrederick,“TheLandscapeofDiscontent:CommunityandConflictinPapantla,Veracruz,
1750-1800.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2005.Dr.Frederickisatenured
associateprofessoratLawrenceUniversity.Hisdissertation-basedmonographisinpresswith
SussexAcademicPress.
EdOsowski,“SaintsoftheRepublic:NahuaReligiousObligationsinCentralMexico,
1692-1810.”PhDdissertation,History,PennState,2002.Dr.Osowskiisatenured
memberofthefacultyatJohnAbbottCollege.HisdissertationwaspublishedasIndigenous
MiraclesbyUniversityofArizonaPressin2010.
MAsDirected
MeganMcDonie,MA,LatinAmericanHistory&LatinAmericanStudies,PennState,2015
AislingMcIntyre,MA,LatinAmericanHistory&LatinAmericanStudies,PennState,2013
RebekahMartin,MA,ColonialLatinAmericanHistory&LatinAmericanStudies,PennState,
2012
AliciaShatley,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:TheFailureofSpanishConquestPoliciesagainstMaroonCommunitiesin
NewSpain”)
SpencerDelbridge,MA,ColonialLatinAmericanHistory,PennState,2007(thesis:“MayaMemory
intheColonialPeriod”)
IrisM.Cowher,MA,LatinAmericanHistory,PennState,2001(thesis:“Cárdenas’sGamble?The
PoliticsandDiplomacyBehindtheMexicanPresident’sDecisiontoNationalizetheOil
Industryin1938”)
DoctoralCommitteeMembership
Membershiponotherdoctoralcommittees,1998-2016(allinHistoryandallatPennState,
unlessotherwiseindicated;namesinitalicsarecurrentlyactivestudents):MeganMcDonie
(MA);PaulRelstab(MA);LaurentCases;ScottCave;RebekahMartin;JeffreyHorton;Alicia
Shatley;MatthewPadrón;JanaByars;AlexanderKrivonosov;ValentinaCesco;Matthew
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Isham;MichaelTuttle;AdamRogers;GregoryMurry;PhilipHnatkovich;JenniferDavis;
AmyMitchell-Cook;MichaelSmith;AnnHubbard;RichardGeorge(Anthropology);Aurelio
López(Anthropology);ErickRochette(Anthropology);GregoryLuna(Anthropology);
MatthewRockmore(Anthropology);AmyKovak(Anthropology);ZacharyNelson
(Anthropology);GerardoGutiérrez(Anthropology);JaySilverstein(Anthropology);Peter
Koby(Geography);SethDixon(Geography);SofíaVillareal(Spanish);MaríaInclán
(PoliticalScience);RenaeMitchell(ComparativeLiterature);GermánCampos-Muñóz
(ComparativeLiterature);QuentinYoungberg(ComparativeLiterature);NadiaMartínezCarrillo(Communications);ChristineRivas(History,CarletonUniversity);GeoffreyWallace
(History,McGillUniversity).
SERVICE&OTHERPROFESSIONALACTIVITIES
Editorial:Journals
ElectedCo-Editor,Ethnohistory,in2006for2007-12,renewed2012-17
BookReviewEditor,Ethnohistory,1997-2006
AssociateEditor,Ethnohistory,2003-07
EditorialBoardMember,TheAmericas,2010-present
EditorialBoardMember,Mesoamérica,2001-09
EditorialBoardMember,Ethnohistory,2000-04
ContributingEditor/Columnist,LAView(LosAngeles,weekly),1989-96
GeneralorBookReviewEditor,UCLAHistoricalJournal,1988-92
Editor-in-chief,WorcesterCollegestudentmagazine,OxfordUniversity,1984-86
Editorial:BookSeries
LatinAmericanOriginals.Serieseditorandfounder(in2007).LAOisabookseriesofbrief
editionsofprimarysourcesonColonialLatinAmerica,publishedbyPennState
UniversityPress[10volumesinprint,8moreindevelopment].
CambridgeLatinAmericanStudies.Seriesco-editor(withKrisLane)(since2015).CLASisa
prestigiousandwell-establishedseriesofmonographsonLatinAmericantopics,
publishedbyCambridgeUniversityPress.
ManuscriptandPromotionReviews
Formalbookproposal,manuscript,article,andfellowshipapplicationreviewswritten
(since1996)for:
AmericanPhilosophicalSociety;UniversityofArizonaPress;BedfordBooks&
Bedford/St.Martin’s;BloomsburyAcademic;CambridgeUniversityPress;University
ofChicagoPress;UniversityPressofColorado;DukeUniversityPress;HackettPub.
Co.;LibraryofCongress’sKlugeCenter;UniversityofMinnesotaPress;Universityof
NewMexicoPress;UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress;UniversityofNotreDame
Press;UniversityofOklahomaPress;OxfordUniversityPress;UniversityPressof
Florida;PrenticeHall;SmithsonianInstitutionPress;StanfordUniversityPress;
AmericanHistoricalReview;TheAmericas;AncientMesoamerica;TheArtBulletin;
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ColonialLatinAmericanReview;ColonialLatinAmericanHistoricalReview;Estudios
Mexicanos/MexicanStudies;Ethnohistory;FronterasdelaHistoria(Colombia);
HispanicAmericanHistoricalReview;JournalofEarlyModernHistory;Journalofthe
HistoryofSexuality;JournalofLatinAmericanStudies;JournalofMilitaryHistory;
JournalofSocialHistory;Mesoamérica(Guatemala);RadicalHistoryReview;Revista
MexicanadelCaribe;Secuencia(Mexico);SignosHistóricos;andTemas
Antropológicas.
Dust-jacketblurbswrittenfor11bookspublishedby7universitypressesintheU.S.(since
2002).
Formalevaluationswrittenforpromotioncommitteesat26institutionsinCanadaandthe
U.S.(since1999).
Professional(External)Committees
Presidentialnominee,ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistory[CLAH](oftheAmericanHistorical
Association[AHA])(2014;notelectedat2015meeting)
Chair,MexicanHistoryBookPrizecommittee,ConferenceonLatinAmericanHistory[CLAH]
(oftheAmericanHistoricalAssociation[AHA]),forawardat2012meeting(appointed)
JamesAlexanderRobertsonMemorialPrizeCommittee(bestHAHRarticle),Conferenceon
LatinAmericanHistory[CLAH](oftheAmericanHistoricalAssociation[AHA]),foraward
at2009meeting(appointed)
Chair,LewisHankeDissertationResearchAwardCommittee,CLAH(oftheAHA),forawardat
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:FacultySelectioncommittee,SchreyerHonorsCollege(2003,2005);FacultySenate&
SenateLibrarycommittee(2010-11);PennStatePressBoard(2010-13)
College(LiberalArts):LatinAmericanStudiescommittee(1999-2007,Chair1999-2003,2004-11,
2012-13,2014-16),founderofLiLACS(Latino,LatinAmerican,andCaribbeanStudies)and
co-director(2008-16);CollegeGraduateCommittee(2012-13,2014-16);WeissSearch
Committee(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),PolicyCommittee(2015-16),Graduate
Placementcommittee(2001-03,2005-10),GraduateStudiescommittee(1999-2000),
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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),Chairof9PhDcommitteesandChair
of10MAcommittees(History,since1999),andmemberof29otherdoctoralcommittees
(namedabove,since1999)
ProfessionalMemberships
AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation;AmericanHistoricalAssociation;AmericanSociety
forEthnohistory;AssociatesoftheJohnCarterBrownLibrary;ForumonEuropean
ExpansionandGlobalInteraction;HakluytSociety;LatinAmericanStudiesAssociation;
Mid-AtlanticCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies;NewEnglandCouncilonLatinAmerican
Studies;RockyMountainCouncilonLatinAmericanStudies [notallcurrent]
Languages
Spoken:Spanish,French
Read(varyinglevels):YucatecMaya,Nahuatl,Latin,Portuguese
Taught:YucatecMaya(colonial,read),Nahuatl(colonial,read,introductory),Spanish
paleography(16thto18thcenturies,introductory)
October2016
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