Contributors
- Contributors
John F. Schwaller is Professor of History at the University at Albany (SUNY). He is known for his work on the secular clergy in early colonial Mexico, Nahuatl language manuscripts, a history of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and most recently, a study of the landing of the Cortés expedition at Veracruz and the petition of the company to the crown. He recently completed a book on the Aztec month of Panquetzaliztli. He has assisted Stafford Poole on an English translation of a confessional manual written by the Third Provincial Council of Mexico (1585), soon to be published by the University of Oklahoma Press. For many years he served as an academic administrator at various universities, including Florida Atlantic University, the University of Montana, the University of Minnesota – Morris, and the State University of New York at Potsdam. He is also the former Director of the Academy of American Franciscan History.
Dr. Erin Woodruff Stone is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of West Florida. Erin graduated from Vanderbilt University with a PhD in Atlantic and Latin American History in May of 2014. She is currently working on her book manuscript entitled "Captives of Conquest: How Indigenous Slavery Shaped the Spanish Atlantic, 1490–1570." In her work she focuses on the rise and consequences of indigenous slavery in the Spanish Empire, including the resultant Indian Diaspora. She is also the author of "America's First Slave Revolt: Indians and African Slaves in Española, 1500–1534," published in Ethnohistory in 2013.
Scott Cave is a current PhD candidate at the Pennsylvania State University. His dissertation, "Contact, Conquest, and the Social History of Communication in the Spanish Atlantic, 1470–1620," examines the many approaches to communication, both spoken and otherwise, employed by indigenous and European peoples in the circum-Caribbean of the contact era. He is the recipient of the Lydia Cabrera Prize and fellowships at several research libraries.
Dr. Rajeshwari Dutt completed her Ph.D. in history from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. Upon completion of her Ph.D., Dr. Dutt, moved to India where she is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT Mandi). She specialises in the history of Maya indigenous groups in nineteenth century Yucatán and Belize. Her current project examines Anglo-Maya relations in Belize during the Caste War period (1847–1901). [End Page 7]
