Contributors
- Contributors
Kevin Terraciano is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his Ph.D. in 1994. He specializes in the field of colonial Latin America, focusing on the indigenous peoples of Mexico. His book on the Mixtecs of colonial Oaxaca is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. Recently, Terraciano received the Heizer Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory for his article entitled “Crime and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Case of the Mixtec Murder Note” (Ethnohistory 45:4, 1998). He continues to work with colonial Mixtec- and Nahuatl-language writings and pictorial manuscripts and is beginning to study Zapotec-language writings from the Valley of Oaxaca.
Susan Schroeder is France V. Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. She is the author of Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco (1991), editor of Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain (1998), coeditor of Indian Women of Early Mexico (1997), and general editor and co-translator of the six-volume Codex Chimalpahin (1997 and forthcoming). Currently, she is working on a comprehensive study of Nahuas as marginal intellectuals in colonial Mexico City with an emphasis on their roles as artists, cartographers, historians, interpreters, and musicians.
Ward Stavig is associate professor of history at the University of South Florida, Tampa. His research focuses on Andean indigenous peoples in the colonial era, and as a result of these interests he recently published The World of Túpac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru. With a focus on issues such as culture, ethnicity, and identity, Stavig is presently beginning work on a monograph dealing with the internal relations of indigenous communities in the region of Potosí in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Karl H. Offen lectures on historical and cultural geography at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Texas at Austin (1999) and two master’s degrees from Ohio University in Athens (1993, 1990). His research focuses on identity [End Page vii] formation, colonialism, and environmental history in eastern Central America. He is presently examining how Western representations of space circumscribed the ethnic formation of the Miskitu Indians in eastern Nicaragua.
Mark Thurner is associate professor of history and anthropology at the University of Florida. He is the author of From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru (1997). He is currently coediting, with Andrés Guerrero, a collection of critical historical essays entitled After Spanish Rule: Rethinking History and the Postcolonial in the Americas, which is under contract with Duke University Press.
