Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State

Contributors

253 Ethelia Ruiz Medrano (coeditor) is a fulltime professor and resear­ cher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico. She is the author of Shaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535–1550 (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006), among other publications. In 2006 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her main interests are the relationship between Indians and the colonial and Mexican state and Mesoamerican Indian history. Susan Kellogg (coeditor) is a professor of history and the director of Latin American Studies at the University of Houston. She is the author of Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995) and Weaving the Past (New York: Oxford Univer­ sity Press, 2005). R. Jovita Baber is an assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Contributors C o n t r i b u t o r s 254 Interested in imperial legal and political systems and the daily experience of native peoples in colonial contexts, Baber specializes in the legal and social history of colonial Latin America in the early modern Iberian world and is revising her book manuscript titled “The Construction of Empire: Politics, Law, and Community in Tlaxcala.” José Manuel A. Chávez-Gómez is a researcher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico. He is the author of Inten­ ción franciscana de evangelizar entre los mayas rebeldes (Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2001). Edward W. Osowski teaches history at CEGEP John Abbott College in Montreal. He specializes in Mexico’s indigenous history, frequently using Nahuatl-language documents in his research. He is coeditor (with Nora E. Jaffary and Susie S. Porter) of Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader (Boulder: Westview Press, 2009). Brian Owensby is a professor of history and department chair of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is a specialist in both Brazilian and Mexican history and is author of Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico and Intimate Ironies: Making MiddleClass Lives in Modern Brazil. María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi is a full-time profes­ sor and researcher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is a well-known specialist in the ethnohistory of Oaxaca’s indigenous population. Among other publications, she is the author of El sol y la cruz: Los pueblos indios de Oaxaca colonial (México DF: CIESAS, 1996). Cuauhtémoc Velasco Avila is a full-time professor and re­sear­ cher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico. He specializes in Comanche colonial and nineteenth-century history. Among his work is “Sociedad, identidad y guerra entre los comanches, 1825–1835,” in La reindianización de América, siglo XIX, ed. Marta Irurozki and Leticia Reina (México DF: Siglo XXI, 1997). Yanna P. Yannakakis is an assistant professor of history at Emory University. She specializes in the ethnohistory of Oaxaca, with a special focus on legal, political, and social history. She is the author of The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008). ...