Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America

About the Contributors

263 About the Contributors Miruna Achim is Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Cuajimalpa, in Mexico City. She has written on various aspects of colonial and transatlantic science. She is the author of Lagartijas medicinales: Remedios americanos y debates científicos en la ilustración (UAM/Conaculta, 2008). She is currently working on a history of the first decades of the Museo Nacional de México. James C. Flaks recently earned his PhD in History from the University of Nevada Reno, with a dissertation entitled “The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City.” His main areas of concentration are Colonial Latin America, Basque studies, and cultural theory. His research interests also include Spanish religious mystics, both orthodox and heterodox, in colonial Latin America. Erika R. Hosselkus is Assistant Professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University. She received her PhD in History from Tulane University in August 2011. Erika was an Academy of American Franciscan History Dissertation Fellow, and her dissertation is entitled , “Living with Death between the Volcanoes: Nahua Approaches to Mortality in Colonial Puebla’s Upper Atoyac Basin.” She is a student of Nahuatl interested in death preparations and responses to death and dying among indigenous groups and individuals of mixed ethnicity in the colonial Americas. Andrew Redden is Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Liverpool. With Fernando Cervantes of the University 264 about the contributors of Liverpool, he is currently completing a Leverhulme-sponsored project on Angels in the Early Modern Hispanic World. He is also beginning a project and research network on Global Martyrdom 50 BC–2010 AD. He is the author of Diabolism in Colonial Peru 1560–1750 (Pickering & Chatto, 2008). Ana E. Schaposchnik obtained her PhD with a dissertation titled “Under the Eyes of the Inquisition: Crypto-Jews in the IberoAmerican World, Peru 1600s,” which she is now transforming into a book. She is Assistant Professor at DePaul University (History Department), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in colonial Latin American history, ethnohistory, and the history of the Inquisition. Zeb Tortorici earned his PhD from the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a Mellon/ACLS fellow , he wrote a dissertation entitled “Contra Natura: Sin, Crime, and Unnatural Sexuality in Colonial Mexico.” He has published articles in Ethnohistory, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and the edited volume Queer Youth Cultures and is coediting Centering Animals: Writing Animals into Latin American History. He is visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, 2010–11, and will be an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Stanford University, 2011–13. Adam Warren is Assistant Professor of Latin American history at the University of Washington, Seattle. A specialist in colonial and nineteenth-century Peru and the history of medicine and public health, he is the author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). He has published articles including “La medicina y los muertos en Lima: Conflictos sobre la reforma de los entierros y el significado de la piedad católica, 1808–1850,” in El rastro de la salud en el Peru, edited by Marcos Cueto and Jorge Lossio; “An Operation for Evangelization: Friar Francisco González Laguna, the Cesarean Section, and Fetal Baptism in Late Colonial Peru,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine; and “Viviendas miasmáticas y enfermedades en la Lima Borbónica: Creencias populares y debates médicos sobre espacios domésticos, medio ambiente, y epidemias,” in Perfiles habitacionales y condiciones About the Contributors 265 ambientales: Historia urbana de Latinoamérica, siglos XVII–XX, edited by Rosalva Loreto. Martina Will de Chaparro is an independent scholar based in Denver . Formerly Associate Professor of History at Texas Woman’s University , she is the author of Death and Dying in New Mexico (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007). She has published numerous articles in The Americas, Relaciones, Catholic Southwest, and New Mexico Historical Review. Her research interests include the history of medicine and religion in the colonial world and in the nineteenth century. ...