Contributors
- Contributors
Jaime Lara is a research professor at Arizona State University, holding a joint position in the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies and the Hispanic Research Center. After retiring from Yale University, he received senior research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Gallery of Art. He writes on art, architecture, and religion in colonial Mexico and the Andes.
Martin Nesvig is associate professor of History at the University of Miami (Florida). He has published widely on the cultural and intellectual history of Mexico, with a focus on the Inquisition, censorship, and comparative colonialism. He is author of Ideology and Inquisition: The World of the Censors in Early Mexico (2009) and editor of three books on the religious sociology of Mexico; the most recent is Forgotten Franciscans (2011). He was recipient of a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the ACLS (2010-2012). He is completing a book tentatively titled The Xolotl Orgy, which reprises sixteenth-century Michoacán as a region of refuge from orthodoxy and incubator of the cultural transformation of Spaniards in a multiethnic world.
David Tavárez, associate professor of Anthropology at Vassar College, is the author of The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico (2011; paperback, 2013), and a co-editor of Chimalpahin’s Conquest: A Nahua Historian’s Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara’s La conquista de México (2010). Spanish-language editions of these books appeared in Mexico in 2012. In addition, he has published more than 40 articles and book chapters. His areas of interest include Mesoamerican ethnohistory, colonial evangelization, and linguistic policies in colonial Spanish America. His works-in-progress examine indigenous intellectuals and their social worlds in colonial Mexico, colonial indigenous divinatory and literacy practices, pictorial catechisms, and Nahua-Franciscan intellectual projects in the sixteenth century.
Caroline A. Williams is senior lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol, and is current president of the Society for Latin American Studies (UK). She is the author of Between Resistance and Adaptation: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonisation of the Chocó, 1510–1753 (2004), and the editor of Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, Products, and Practices on the Move (2009). [End Page v]
Ericka Kim Verba, associate professor of Latin American History at California State University, Dominguez Hills, is writing a biography of the Chilean folklorist, musician, and artist Violeta Parra (1917–1967), with support from a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is author of the article “Violeta Parra, Radio Chilena, and the ‘Battle in Defense of the Authentic’ during the 1950s in Chile,” and musical director of a tribute concert to Violeta Parra. The concert was funded in part by an Artist in the Community Grant from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, and recorded and released on a CD titled Tribute Concert to Violeta Parra (Desalambrar Music, 1996). [End Page vi]
