Degrees

• B.A., University of California-Los Angeles, Anthropology, 1976
• M.A., University of California-Los Angeles, Latin American History, 1977
• Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, History of Colonial Latin America, 1984

Academic Experience

• Professor, Tulane University, 1999-2009
• Professor, Loyola University-Chicago, 1997-1999
• Associate Professor, Loyola University-Chicago, 1991-1997
• Assistant Professor, Loyola University-Chicago, 1985-1991
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Guadalajara Summer School, 1989

Distinctions

• Frances Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History, Tulane University, 1999-
• James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 2001
• National Endowment for the Humanities Long-term Fellowship, 1999-2000
• Helms Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1998
• Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, 1987

Languages

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Nahuatl

Related Experience

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Awards Panel, 2001, 2002
• Executive Council, American Catholic Historical Association, 1998-2001
• Howard F. Cline Book Prize Committee Chair, Conference on Latin American History 1998-2000
• Director, Latin American Studies Program, Loyola University-Chicago, 1991-1996
• Associate Editor, UC MEXUS NEWS, University of California Consortium on Mexico and the United States, 1982-1984

Selected Publications

• 2009. The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism. Editor, with David Cahill. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press.
• 2000. “Jesuits, Nahuas, and the Good Death Society in Mexico City, 1710-1767.” Hispanic American Historical Review. 80 (1).
• 1998. “The First American Valentine: Nahua Courtship and Other Aspects of Family Structuring in Mesoamerica.” Journal of Family History. 23 (4): 341-354.
• 1997-2005. Codex Chimalpahin. 6 vols. Translator and editor, with Arthur J. O. Anderson (Vol. 1 and 2), James Lockhart and Doris Namala (Vol. 3), and Anne J. Cruz et al. (vol. 6). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
• 1992. Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:

• HISL 3710 Seminar: The Colonial Heritage of Latin America
• HISL 2760: Colonial Mexico