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YANNA PANAYOTA YANNAKAKIS
Associate Professor
Department of History
Emory University
561 S. Kilgo Circle
221 Bowden Hall
Atlanta, GA 30322
(404) 727-9587; [email protected]
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., History (2003)
Fields: Colonial and Modern Latin America/Atlantic
World/ World History
New School for Social Research
M.A. Candidate, Historical Studies (1995-1996, transferred
to UPenn fall of 1996)
Dartmouth College
B.A., History (1989)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Emory University, Associate Professor, Department of History, August 2011-present
Emory University, Assistant Professor, Department of History, August 2009-June 2011
Montana State University, Assistant Professor, Department of History, August 2003-June 2009
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
“Mexico’s Babel: Native Justice in Oaxaca from Colony to Republic” (manuscript in progress)
Co-edited with Gabriela Ramos, Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial
Culture in Mexico and the Andes (Duke University Press, 2014).
El arte de estar en medio. Intermediarios indígenas, identidad india y régimen colonial
en la Oaxaca Colonial (Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades, Universidad
Autónoma "Benito Juárez" de Oaxaca y El Colegio de Michoacán, 2012).
The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial
Oaxaca (Duke University Press, 2008).
 HOWARD FRANCIS CLINE MEMORIAL AWARD 2009, CONFERENCE ON LATIN
AMERICAN HISTORY
DIGITAL HUMANITIES:
“Power of Attorney in Oaxaca, Mexico: Native People, Legal Culture, and Social Networks in
Mexico” (in progress, in cooperation with the Emory University Center for Digital Humanities)
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ARTICLES:
Co-authored with Martina Schrader-Kniffki, “Between the ‘Old Law’ and the New: Christian
Translation, Indian Jurisdiction, and Criminal Justice in Colonial Oaxaca” Hispanic
American Historical Review Special Issue “New Directions in Colonial Latin American
History” 96:3 August 2016 517-548.
“Beyond Jurisdictions: Native Agency in the Making of Colonial Legal Cultures.” A Review
Essay. Comparative Studies in Society and History 2015; 57 (4): 1070-1082.
“Indigenous People and Legal Culture in Spanish America.” History Compass. 11/11 (2013):
931–947, 10.1111/hic3.12096.
“Comparative Indigenous History of the Americas.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic
History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo9780199730414-0173.xml
“Introduction: How did they talk to one another? Language Use and Communication in
Multilingual New Spain.” In Robert C. Schwaller, editor, Special Issue “A Language of
Empire, a Quotidian Tongue: The Uses of Nahuatl in Colonial New Spain” Ethnohistory
59:4, Fall 2012, 667-674.
“Allies or Servants? The Journey of Indian Conquistadors in the Lienzo of Analco” Ethnohistory
58:4, Fall 2011, 653-682.
 LIGIA PARRA JAHN AWARD 2012, ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL ON LATIN
AMERICAN STUDIES
 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEXICO SECTION BEST ESSAY
IN THE HUMANITIES, 2012
“Witnesses, Spatial Practices, and a Land Dispute in Colonial Oaxaca,” The Americas 65:2,
October 2008: 161-192.
 TIBESAR PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION 2009, CONFERENCE ON LATIN
AMERICAN HISTORY
“Hablar para distintos públicos: testigos zapotecos y resistencia a la reforma parroquial en
Oaxaca en el siglo XVIII,” Historia Mexicana no. 219, enero-marzo 2006: 833-893.
"The Renaissance of Oaxaca City's Historical Archives" co-authored with Mark OvermyerVelázquez, in Latin American Research Review 37 (1) 2002: 186-198.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Making Law Intelligible: Networks of Translation in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca.” In Gabriela
Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis, editors, Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and
Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes (Duke University Press, 2014), 79-103.
Co-authored with Gabriela Ramos, “’Introduction.” In Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis,
Yanna P. Yannakakis, c.v., p.3
editors, Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico
and the Andes (Duke University Press, 2014), 1-17.
Co-authored with Martina Schrader-Kniffki, “Sins and Crimes: Zapotec-Spanish Translation in
Catholic Evangelization and Colonial Law (Oaxaca, New Spain).” In Otto Zwartjes,
Klaus Zimmerman, and Martina Schrader-Kniffki, editors, Missionary Linguistics
V/Lingüística Misionera V: Translation Theories and Practices (John Benjamins
Publishing Company, 2014), 161-199.
“‘Costumbre,’ A Language of Negotiation in Eighteenth Century Oaxaca.” In Ethelia Ruiz
Medrano and Susan Kellogg, editors, Negotiation within Domination: Colonial New
Spain’s Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State (University Press of Colorado, 2010),
137-171.
“The ‘indios conquistadores’ of Oaxaca’s Sierra Norte: From Indian Conquerors to Local
Indians.” In Laura Matthew and Michel Oudijk, eds., Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous
Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 227-253.
BOOK REVIEWS
Julia J. S. Sarreal, The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History. The American
Historical Review 2015 120 (3): 1077.
Matthew Restall & Kris Lane, Latin America in Colonial Times. Bulletin of Spanish Studies,
Volume XCII, Number 1, 2015, 157-158.
Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood, editors, Mesoamerican Memory: Enduring Systems of
Remembrance. Hispanic American Historical Review (93) 4 November 2013, 694-696.
Dana Velasco Murillo, Mark Lentz, and Margarita R. Ochoa, editors, City Indians in Spain’s
American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica and Andean
South America, 1530-1810. Colonial Latin American Historical Review vol. 1, num. 3
Summer 2013, 309-310.
Susan Schroeder, editor, The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing,
and Painting Spanish Colonialism. Colonial Latin American Review vol. 21, no. 1, April
2012, 161-163.
Steven J. Hackel, editor, Alta California: Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formation. The
American Historical Review vol. 115 no.5 (December 2011), 1482-1483.
William F. Connell, After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City,
1524-1730. The Americas 68:2 (October 2011), 286-287.
Arnold J. Bauer, The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century
Mexican Treasure. Ethnohistory vol.58(2) Spring 2011, 348-349.
Fernando Núñez, Carlos Arvizu, and Ramón Abonce, Space and Place in the Mexican
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Landscape: The Evolution of a Colonial City. Ethnohistory vol.58(1) Winter 2011,
173-175.
Brian P. Owensby, Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico. Labor
History 51(4) November 2010, 591-593.
Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O’Hara, eds., Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in
Colonial Latin America. Ethnohistory vol.57(3) Summer 2010, 510-511.
Gonzalo Lamana, Domination Without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial
Peru. The American Historical Review 114 (5), December 2009, 1504.
Ann Laura Stoler, ed., Haunted By Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History.
New Mexico Historical Review. Volume 83, number 3, Summer 2008, 389-392.
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial
Bureaucracy, 1531-1550. Historia Mexicana no.224, Abril-Junio 2007, 1427-1432.
NATIONAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Mellon New Directions Fellowship, 2015-2018
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2011-2012
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2011
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2001-02
Fulbright Hays Dissertation Grant for Research Abroad, 1999-2000
Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 1997
INTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
University Research Council, Emory University, AY 2011-2012
Scholarship and Creativity Grant for the Advancement of the Arts, Humanities, and Social
Sciences, Montana State University, FY 2005, FY 2006, FY 2008
Buy-Out for Enhancing Scholarship and Teaching (BEST) Award, Montana State University,
Fall 2005
Letters and Science Research And Creativity Award, Montana State University, 2004-2005,
2007-2008
Letters and Science Research Enhancement Award, Montana State University, 2004-2005,
2005-2006, Fall 2006, Winter 2007
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Chimicles Fellowship in the Teaching of Writing, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-03
University of Pennsylvania History Department Travel Grant, 2000
University of Pennsylvania History Department Fellowship, 1996-2001
Writing Across the University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
Dissertation Workshop Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
HONORS AND AWARDS (last five years)
Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Essay in the Humanities 2012 (for
“Allies or Servants? The Journey of Indian Conquistadors in the Lienzo of Analco” Ethnohistory
58:4, Fall 2011, 653-682).
Ligia Parra Jahn Award 2012 for the best article written by a woman or about women that
originated as a RMCLAS presentation, given by the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin
American Studies (RMCLAS) (for “Allies or Servants? The Journey of Indian Conquistadors in
the Lienzo of Analco” Ethnohistory 58:4, Fall 2011, 653-682).
Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize 2009 for the best book published in 2007 or 2008 on Latin
American ethnohistory, awarded by the Conference on Latin American History (for The Art of
Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca)
Tibesar Prize, Honorable Mention 2009 for the best article published in The Americas, awarded
by the Conference on Latin American History (for “Witnesses, Spatial Practices, and a Land
Dispute in Colonial Oaxaca”)
Montana State University College of Letters and Science Faculty Award for Meritorious
Research or Creativity, 2009
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: FORMAL CLASSES AND SEMINARS (last five years)
Emory University, Department of History, August 2009-present
Graduate Courses:
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History/Anthropology 585: Indigenous Peoples and Empires (Spring 2015)
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History/African Studies/Anthropology 585: Law and Colonial Cultures in the
Atlantic World (Spring 2012), co-taught with Kristin Mann
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History/LACS/ILA/Anthropology 562r: Latin American History: New Paradigms,
Old Trends (Fall 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013)
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History 584: Research Workshop (Spring 2016)
Undergraduate Courses:
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History 489R JR/SR Colloquium: Religion and Politics in Latin America (Spring
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2014)
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History 385: Law and Justice in the Atlantic World, 1500-1900 (Fall 2013)
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History 360 Mexico: Aztecs to Narcos (Spring 2012, Fall 2015)
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History 489R JR/SR Colloquium: Conquest and Conversion in Latin America (Spring
2011)
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History/Women’s Studies/LACS 385: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (Spring
2011, Spring 2014)
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History 360: Colonial Latin America (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
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History 361: Latin America After Independence (Spring 2010)
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History 211: Latin America: A History (Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
TEACHING FIELDS
Colonial and Modern Latin America
Iberian Colonialism, Iberian Atlantic World, Atlantic World
Mexico
Comparative Colonialism, Comparative Empires
Law and Justice in the Atlantic World
Comparative Colonial Legal Cultures
Comparative Indigenous History of the Americas
Ethnohistory
World History (Certification, University of Pennsylvania History Department)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
-- American Historical Association
-- Conference on Latin American History
-- Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
-- Latin American Studies Association
-- Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section, Colonial Section
-- Welte Institute for Oaxacan Studies
-- American Society for Ethnohistory
-- American Society for Legal History
-- Southern Historical Association, Latin American and Caribbean Section
RESEARCH INTERESTS
-- colonial and postcolonial legal systems; law and society
-- cultural brokers, translation, culture contact
-- Church and state in the Iberian Empire
-- language politics, the social history of language, sociolinguistics
-- race and ethnicity
-- agrarian history
-- ethnohistory and historical anthropology
-- digital humanities and GIS
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INVITED LECTURES, TALKS, AND PAPERS (last five years)
With Martina Schrader-Kniffki, “Traducción y Jurisdicción Indígena en Oaxaca Colonial,
Mexico.” Invited paper presented at the XIX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional del
Derecho Indiano, organized by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Berlin,
Germany, August 29-September 2, 2016.
“Power of Attorney/Poder Legal.” Invited participation as Domain Expert in Humanities Data
Visualization Workshop, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, March 2-4, 2016.
"Between the 'Old Law' and the New: Christian Translation, Indian Jurisdiction, and Criminal
Justice in Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico.” Invited Paper presented at the Omohundro Institute for
Early American Studies and William & Mary Legal History Seminar, Williamsburg, VA,
February 23, 2016.
"Between the 'Old Law' and the New: Indian Jurisdiction and Colonial Justice in Highland
Oaxaca, Mexico.” Invited Lecture presented at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 22,
2015.
With Martina Schrader-Kniffki, “Entre la "ley antigua" y la nueva: justicia local, traducción
cristiana y jurisdicción de los Pueblos de indios en Oaxaca, Nueva España.” Invited presentation
given at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, “seminario permanente,”
Frankfurt, Germany, April 13, 2015. [participation via skype]
"Between the ‘Old Law’ and the New: Native Justice, Christianity, and Colonial Legal Culture in
Southern Mexico." Keynote address presented at the History Graduate Student Association
Conference at Louisiana State University, March 20, 2015.
“Custom’s Longue Durée: Local Justice and Jurisdictional Politics in 19th Century Oaxaca.”
Invited paper presented at ‘Reframing Latin America’s Nineteenth Century,’ Yale University,
February 27-28, 2015.
“Christian Translation, Local Justice, and Indian Jurisdiction in Colonial Oaxaca.” Invited paper
presented at ‘Meanings of Justice in New World Empires: Settler and Indigenous Law as
Counterpoints,’ Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History at the Center for
Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, October 9-10, 2014.
With Martina Schrader-Kniffki, “El rol del interprete y la importancia de la traslación desde una
experiencia colonial.” Invited presentation given at Universidad Nacional Autónoma “Benito
Juárez” de Oaxaca y Alice Salomon Hoschschule Berlin, University of Applied Sciences: El
primer encuentro del Centro Interdisciplinario, Internacional de Investigación y Enseñanza
CIIIE, August 12-14, 2014.
“‘The Law of the Ancient Zapotecs’: Native Christians and Colonial Justice in Highland
Oaxaca.” Invited paper presented at ‘Can the Native Christian Speak? Discerning the Voices of
Indigenous Christians in Missionary and Colonial Archives,’ Emory University, May 28, 2014.
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“Mexico’s Babel: Legal Culture in Oaxaca from Colony to Republic.” Invited presentation given
at Oaxaca Summer Institute, June 28, 2013.
“Closing Remarks” presented at ‘Indian Identities in Colonial Latin America’ Symposium,
Georgia State University, September 21, 2012.
Presentación del libro (presentación): El Arte de Estar en Medio: Intermediarios Indígenas,
Identidad India, y Régimen Local en la Oaxaca Colonial. Instituto de Investigaciones en
Humanidades de la Universidad Autónoma “Benito Juárez” Oaxaca, June 14th, 2012. “Dos
Libros por un Boleto.”
Presentación del libro (comentario): Luis Alberto Arrioja Díaz Viruell, Pueblos de Indios y
Tierras Comunales: Villa Alta, Oaxaca: 1742-1856. Instituto de Investigaciones en
Humanidades de la Universidad Autonoma “Benito Juárez” Oaxaca, June 15th, 2012. “Dos
Libros por un Boleto.”
“Indios Conquistadores: Local Legacies of the Conquest of Mexico.” Invited Lecture given at
University of Michigan, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, December 6, 2010.
“The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in
Colonial Oaxaca.” Invited presentation given at the University of Georgia, January 26, 2010.
“The Lienzo of Analco: The Spanish Conquest as Narrated by Indian Conquistadors.”
Invited Lecture presented at Vanderbilt University, November 12, 2009.
“Native Intermediaries and Indian Conquistadors in Colonial Oaxaca.” Invited presentation
given at Oaxaca Summer Institute, July 2009.
CONFERENCE, SYMPOSIUM, AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION (last five years)
PAPERS AND ROUNDTABLES:
“Power of Attorney: Law, Native People, and Social Networks in Mexico, 1700-1852” presented
at the Conference on Latin American History in Atlanta, GA, January 7-10, 2016.
“Custom’s Longue Durée: Local Justice and Jursdictional Politics in 19th Century Oaxaca”
presented at The American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Las Vegas,
Nevada, November 4-8, 2015.
“La doctrina cristiana en la memoria de cabildo: traducción y justicia en los pueblos de indios
de Oaxaca” co-presented with Martina Schrader-Kniffki at AHILA (Asociación de
Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos), Berlin, September 9-13, 2014.
“Las partes del todo en ordén: la invención de las normas textuales desde los escritos de los
misioneros hasta los textos jurídicos en Oaxaca, Nueva España” presented at the VIII
Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Misionera, Lima, Peru, March 25–28, 2014.
“‘The Law of the Ancient Zapotecs’: Translation, Temporality, and Colonial Justice in Highland
Oaxaca” presented at the The American Historical Association Annual Meeting/The
Conference on Latin American History, Washington, DC, January 2-5, 2014.
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“Traductores y la traducción en el juzgado colonial de Villa Alta” presented at the Primer
Congreso Internacional: Los pueblos indígenas de América Latina, siglos XIX-XXI.
Avances, perspectivas y retos (Oaxaca, Mexico), October 28-31, 2013.
“México en el Siglo XXI: Aproximaciones interdisciplinarias, teóricas, y pedagógicas en la
investigación y enseñanza superior de los estudios mexicanos.” Mexico Section
roundtable discussion. Presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual
Meeting, May 29-June 1, 2013
“False Justice (justicia xihui)?: Ideologies of Law and Indian Jurisdiction in Colonial Oaxaca.”
Presented at the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Annual Meeting,
April 3-7, 2012.
“Whither Go-est Colonial History?” Roundtable presentation at the Rocky Mountain Council on
Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, April 3-7, 2012.
“’The First Modern State?’ Tradition, Innovation, and Extemporization in the Government of
Spain's Early Modern Empire.” Roundtable discussion presented at The American
Historical Association Annual Meeting/The Conference on Latin American History,
January 3-6, 2013
“Making Spanish Law Zapotec: Christianization and Translation in Oaxaca’s Colonial Courts”
presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, May 23-26,
2012
“Networks of Translation: Interpreters, Law, and Local Society in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca”
presented at the Tepaske Seminar in Colonial Latin American History, March 16-17,
2012
“Sins and Crimes: Zapotec-Spanish Translation: From Catholic Evangelization to Colonial Law
(Oaxaca, Mexico)” presented at the Seventh International Conference on Missionary
Linguistics, February 28-March 2, 2012
“Fugitive Translations: The Work of Interpreters in Mexico's Post-Independence Court System”
presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting/Conference on Latin
American History, January 5-8, 2012
Conference on Latin American History Presidential Session: Roundtable on Publishing in the
21st
Century, The Conference on Latin American History, January 5-8, 2012
“Court Interpreters and Colonial Law in Multilingual Oaxaca: A Translation Program” presented
at The Tepoztlan Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, July 27-August
3, 2011
“The Bureaucratic Conquest of the Mixe of Villa Alta” presented at the American
Historical Association Annual Meeting/Conference on Latin American History, January
6-9, 2011
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“Indigenous Interpreters: Regimes of Language in Colonial Oaxaca” presented at the
symposium “Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in New
Spain and the Andes,” Cambridge University, September 16-17, 2010
“Between Alliance and Autonomy: The Journey of Indian Conquistadors in the Lienzo of
Analco” presented at the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies meeting,
April 7-11 2010
“The Lienzo of Analco: Conquest Pictorial, Cartographic History, and Frontier Narrative”
presented at the Conference on Latin American History and American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, January 7-10, 2010
“The Meanings and Uses of Indian Identity in Colonial Oaxaca” at the Latin
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, June 11-14th, 2009
“Indigenous Interpreters: Intellectuals and Cultural Creators in Colonial Oaxaca” presented
at the Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, Jan.2-5, 2009
PANEL COMMENTARIES AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS:
Commentary for panel ““Bárbaros” in the Archive: Sources and Methods for the Study of
Autonomous Indigenous Peoples in South America,” presented at the Conference on
Latin American History/American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta
Georgia, January 7-10, 2016.
Commentary for panel “Indigenous Advocacy, Legal Strategy, and Litigation in Colonial Latin
America,” presented at the Conference on Latin American History, January 2-5, 2014.
Commentary for panel “The Power of Custom and the Pretensions of Empire: Nahua Water Rights,
Land Claims, and Political Culture in Sixteenth-Century Mexico,” presented at the American
Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, September 11-13, 2013
Commentary for panel “Making Indians through Law in the Andes and Mexico, 18th-20th
centuries” presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, May
29-June 1, 2013
Commentary for panel “Gender, Law, and Race in Colonial Mexico and Peru” presented at the
Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, April 3-7, 2013
Commentary for panel “Telling Stories, Making Places: Establishing Indigenous Authority in
Towns and Missions of Spanish and Portuguese America” presented at the American
Historical Association Annual Meeting/The Conference on Latin American History,
January 3-6, 2013
Commentary for panel “Indigenous Intermediaries: Networks of Multilingualism and
Community in Colonial Latin America” presented at the American Historical
Association Annual Meeting/The Conference on Latin American History, January 5-8,
2012
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Commentary for panel “Urban Indians In Spain’s American Empire, Part I” presented at
the American Society of Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, October 19-22, 2011
Commentary for panel “Negotiating Authority: Bureaucratic and Cultural Logics in the Early
Modern Spanish Empire” presented at the Conference on Latin American History Annual
Meeting, January 6-9, 2011
Commentary for panel “The Wake of the Conquest and the use of Nahuatl as a lingua franca”
presented at XIII Reunión de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá, 2630 October, 2010
Commentary for panel “Love and Conflict on the Periphery of New Spain, 16th-18th Centuries”
at
the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, April 7-11, 2010
Commentary for panel “Making Race in the Island City: Freedom, Vassalage, and Trade in
Colonial Latin America” at the Conference on Latin American History and American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 6-9, 2010
Commentary for Camila Pastor de María y Campos, “Inscribing Difference: Maronites, Jews and
Arabs in Mexico Migrant institutions, marriage strategies and popular culture in the
institutionalization of conflicting ethno-religious identities” at symposium “The ‘Other’
Others: Jews and Arabs in Latin America,” Emory University, October 14, 2009
Commentary for panel “Colonial Caciques and Native Leaders: Go-Betweens and Intermediaries
in the New World” at the Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, Jan.25, 2009
PANEL CHAIRMANSHIP:
Chair of Colonial Studies Committee session: “Litigators, Litigation, and Legal Culture in
Colonial Latin America,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting,
Conference on Latin American History, January 2-5, 2014.
Chair of panel “Legal Culture and Practice involving Native Peoples in Colonial Latin America”
at the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, April 3-7,
2013
Chair of panel “Law and Politics in Colonial Latin America” at the American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting, November 10-13, 2011
PANEL ORGANIZATION:
Co-organizer: “Los indios de Nueva España ante la justicia local: traducción, autoridad, y
mediadores culturales,” AHILA (Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas
Europeos), Berlin, September 9-13, 2014
“Litigators, Litigation, and Legal Culture in Colonial Latin America,” American Historical
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Association Annual Meeting, Conference on Latin American History Colonial Studies
Committee Session, January 2-5, 2014.
“The Many Conquests of America,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting and
Conference on Latin American History, January 6-9, 2011
“Indigenous and Indian Identities in Mexico Over the Longue Durée,” Annual Meeting of
the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, April 7-11, 2010
SYMPOSIUM AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
Tepaske Seminar for the study of Colonial Latin America. April 11-12, 2014, Emory University
Tepaske Seminar for the study of Colonial Latin America. March 25-26, 2011, Emory
University
Co-organizer: “Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in New Spain
and the Andes,” September 16-17, 2010, Cambridge University
“The Legacy of Jacobo Timerman: Jewish-Argentine, Public Intellectual, Survivor of
Disappearance and Torture,” February 11, 2010, Emory University
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial and Advisory Boards:
Editorial Board, Hispanic American Historical Review, 2016Editorial Board Member: Ethnohistory, 2012-2014
Standing Editorial Board Member: Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies (Oxford
University Press), June 23-2011-present
Offices for Professional Organizations:
General Committee (2016-, Conference on Latin American History
Chair, Colonial Studies Committee (2014), Conference on Latin American History
Secretary, Colonial Studies Committee (2013), Conference on Latin American History
Prize Committees:
Hispanic American Historical Review Book Review Prize Committee 2017
Charles A. Hale Fellowship for Mexican History 2017, Latin American Studies Association
Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin Book Award Committee 2014, American Society for Ethnohistory
Ligia Parra Jahn Prize Committee 2011, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
The Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize Committee 2010 and 2011, Latin American and Caribbean
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Section of the Southern Historical Association
Tibesar Prize Committee 2010, Conference on Latin American History
Reviewer/referee for Presses, Journals, and Granting Agencies:
Book Manuscripts:
Duke University Press
Cambridge University Press
University of Oklahoma Press
University of Alabama Press
University of Utah Press
University of Arizona Press
Universidad de los Andes
Routledge Press
Article Manuscripts:
Hispanic American Historical Review
Ethnohistory
William and Mary Quarterly
The Americas
Interpreting
Novohispana
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies, Oxford University Press
Historia Crítica
Journal of Latin American Geography
The Latin American Indian Literatures Journal
Book Proposals:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Routledge Press
Grant Proposals:
City University of New York Research Foundation
Endangered Archives Programme, Asia, Africa, and Pacific Collections,
The British Library
Review Panels:
National Endowment for the Humanities, Translations and Edited Collections
TENURE REVIEWS
See Internal Version Only (to preserve anonymity)
SERVICE AT EMORY UNIVERSITY (last five years)
Director of Graduate Studies, 2014Department of Spanish and Portuguese Search Committee 2015-2016
Advocate for Second Year Review case (Dawn Peterson), 2014-2015
Advocate for Fourth Year Review case (Elena Conis), 2014-2015
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Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Executive Board, 2013-2016
Director of Graduate Admissions, Department of History, 2013-2014
Graduate Committee, Department of History, 2013University Research Council Humanities Subcommittee, 2013-2015
Advocate for Second Year Review case (Elena Conis), History Department 2013-2014
Advocate for Tenure case (Tom Rogers), History Department, 2012-13
Outreach Committee, History Department 2011
Woodruff Graduate Fellowship Committee for the Laney Graduate School 2011
Graduate Studies Committee, History Department 2010-2011, 2013Latin American History Search Committee, History Department 2010-2011
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Honors Coordinator 2009-2011
Undergraduate Studies Committee, History Department 2009-2010
Woodruff Undergraduate Research Award Committee 2010