Residence: 2085 University Street,
Eugene, OR 97403-1541;
E-mail: swood [at] uoregon [dot] edu
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Board Member, InDIGenius, a Canada-U.S.-Mexico collaboration for the conservation and dissemination of indigenous languages of the Americas using digital technologies. 2023–2024. https://sites.google.com/arenet.org/indigenius/about
Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, with a focus on the expansion of the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs. https://www.loc.gov/programs/john-w-kluge-center/chairs-fellowships/chairs/jay-i-kislak-chair/ 3 October 2022–30 June 2023.
Research Associate/Principal Investigator: Center for Equity Promotion, College of Education, University of Oregon, 2015–present.
Research Associate/Principal Investigator: Center at Oregon for Research in Education, University of Oregon, 11/1/2012–2015.
Director: Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon, 7/1/2009–present. (Formerly: Associate Director, 2004-09; Coordinator, 2002-04; and Faculty Affiliate, 1999-2002.)
Senior Editor: Latin American History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, with a focus on digital resources, Oxford University Press, 9/2013–2020.
Adjunct Faculty: Latin American History, Department of History, University of Oregon. Also offering occasional courses in Latin American Studies, Women’s Studies, and Spanish. 1992–2015.
Assistant Professor: Latin American History and U.S. History, Department of History, University of Maine, 1984–1989. (I was on leave, 1988-89; then resigned tenure-track position to join spouse in Oregon).
Teaching Associate: Latin American History and U.S. History, Department of History, UCLA, 1980–1983.
DEGREES:
Ph.D. UCLA; Latin American History, 1984. Dissertation: “Corporate Adjustments in Colonial Mexican Indian Towns: Toluca Region, 1550–1810,” on the adjustments of indigenous communities to Spanish colonization, with particular attention to community land holding. Supervisor: James Lockhart.
M.A. UCLA; Latin American History, 1979. Supervisor: James Lockhart.
B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz; History and Latin American Studies (double major), 1977. Senior Thesis. Supervisor: David Sweet.
PUBLICATIONS / BOOKS:
El manuscrito Techialoyan de San Miguel Mimiapan (Estado de México), Florencio Barrera and Stephanie Wood, editors. Seeking publisher.
Honoring Tribal Legacies: An Epic Journey of Healing. Two print volumes and one digital corpus of curricula, co-edited with CHiXapkaid (D. Michael Pavel) and Ella Inglebret. Omaha and Eugene: National Park Service and the University of Oregon, 2014. See the video introduction by Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, Hunkpapa), published in 2019, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpTwmJh8C4>. See also the first video introduction by Emily West Hartlerode, Oregon Folklife Network, 2014. <https://blogs.uoregon.edu/honoringtriballegacies/>
Mesoamerican Memory: Enduring Systems of Remembrance, volume co-edited with Amos Megged. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (e-book), co-edited with James Lockhart and Lisa Sousa, Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon, 2007. Expanded in 2010.
Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
De tlacuilos y escribanos: estudios sobre documentos indígenas coloniales del centro de México, co-edited with Xavier Noguez Ramírez. Toluca and Zamora, Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense and El Colegio de Michoacán, 1998.
Indian Women of Early Mexico, co-edited with Susan Schroeder and Robert Haskett. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.
PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES & CHAPTERS:
“The Language of ‘Conquest’ in Colonial Nahuatl Manuscripts,”in Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited, ed. Vitus Huber and John F. Schwaller. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2024. https://upcolorado.com/inst-meso-studies/item/6653-beyond-cortes-and-montezuma
“La memoria de la colonización en los mapas y títulos hechos para los pueblos originarios, siglos XVII–XX,” in Cinco siglos de memoria y trascendencia indígena en la historia de México, ed. Sergio Eduardo Carrera Quezada. México: Colegio de México y Colegio de Michoacán, 2024. Book cover designed by Lapiztola art collective of Oaxaca. YouTube book presentation at El Colegio de México (November 25, 2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46OR-edPZus
“La ‘agrimensora’ de Tepetlaxco (Tepeaca) tuvo la palabra en 1671,” in La huella de una conquista. Tepeaca en la época novohispana, coord. Lidia E. Gómez García, pp. 127–148. Puebla: Editorial Cariátide, 2021. <https://blogs.uoregon.edu/mesoinstitute/files/2023/08/2021-La-huella-de-una-conquista-1.pdf>
“Digital Mesoamerica,” in the Digital Resources section, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, ed. William Beezley. Published February 2017. <http://bit.ly/2o9exNS>
“Honoring Native Memory: Potent and Vital in the Past, Present, and Future,” plus co-authored several other chapters in Honoring Tribal Legacies: An Epic Journey of Healing, eds. CHiXapkaid (D. Michael Pavel), Ella Inglebret, and Stephanie Wood. Omaha and Eugene: National Park Service and the University of Oregon, 2014. Volume I, Chapter 2, 113–177 (PDF). Please also see the associated open-access curricular offerings that we edited.
“Foreword,” for a book of poetry by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, The Small Claim of Bones (Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, 2014), ix–x. <Information about the book.>
“Introduction,” Mesoamerican Memory: Enduring Systems of Remembrance, eds. Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
“Power Differentials in Early Mesoamerican Gender Ideology: The Founding Couple,” in Símbolos de poder en Mesoamérica, Guilhem Olivier, coord., pp. 517–31, Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008. <PDF>
Also published in a shorter version in Repensando las Américas en los Umbrales del Siglo XXI: 51st Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (CD-Rom), Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile, 2003.
“The Kislak Techialoyan Manuscripts,” The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress: A Catalog, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2007.
“History–Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica,” (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) literature review for the Handbook of Latin American Studies 62, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2007.
“Nahua Christian Soldiers in the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, Cholula Parish (Mexico),” in Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of MesoAmerica, eds. Michel Oudijk and Laura Matthew, pp. 254–287, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
“The Techialoyan Codices,” in Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Provisional Version (e-book), co-edited with James Lockhart and Lisa Sousa, Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Project, University of Oregon, 2007. <Download the PDF>
“History–Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica,” literature review (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) for the Handbook of Latin American Studies 58, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2002.
“¿El otro otro? Interpretando imágenes y descripciones de espanoles en los códices y textos indígenas,” in Códices y Documentos sobre México: Tercer Simposio Internacional, Constanza Vega, ed., pp. 165–196. México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2000. <PDF>
“History–Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica,” literature review (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) for the Handbook of Latin American Studies vol. 56, pp. 75–104. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1999.
“Gender and Town Guardianship in Mesoamerica: Directions for Future Research,” Journal de la Societe des Americanistes 84:2 (1998), pp. 243–276. <PDF>
“Testaments and Títulos: Conflict and Coincidence of Cacique and Community Interests [in Colonial Mexico],” in Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Spanish America, Matthew Restall and Susan Kellogg, eds., pp. 85–111. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998. <PDF>
“La comunidad indígena del siglo diecisiete,” in La historia general del Estado de México, María Teresa Jarquin Ortega, comp., vol. 3, pp. 263–291. México: Gobierno del Estado de México and El Colegio Mexiquense, 1998.
“El problema de la historicidad de Títulos y los códices del grupo Techialoyan,” in De tlacuilos y escribanos: estudios sobre documentos indígenas coloniales del centro de México, Xavier Noguez Ramírez and Stephanie Wood, eds., pp. 167–221. México: El Colegio Mexiquense and El Colegio de Michoacán, 1998.
“Sexual Violation in the Conquest of the Americas,” in The History of Sex and Sexuality in Early America, Merril D. Smith, ed., 9–34. New York: New York University Press, 1998. <PDF> [This is an expanded version of the essay, “Rape as a Tool of Conquest in Early Latin America,” that appeared in Human Sexuality (Annual Editions), Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing, 1993; and was originally published in the CSWS Review (Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon) 1992, 18–20.]
“The Social vs. Legal Context of Nahuatl Títulos,” in Native Traditions in the Postconquest World, Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins, eds., pp. 201-231. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), 1998. <PDF>
“The False Techialoyan Resurrected,” Tlalocan (México) 12 (1998), 117–140. <PDF>
“Matters of Life at Death: Nahuatl Testaments of Rural Women (Central Mexico), 1589–1801,” and “Concluding Remarks,” in Indian Women of Early Mexico, Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, eds., pp. 165–182 and 313–330. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.
“The Ajusco Town Founding Document: Affinities with Documents of the Sixteenth Century,” in Códices y Documentos sobre México: Segundo Simposio, v. II, Salvador Rueda Smithers, Constanza Vega Sosa, and Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, eds., pp. 333–348. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1997.
“History–Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica,” literature review (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) for the Handbook of Latin American Studies vol. 54, pp. 77–100. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995.
Sixteen entries in the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995.
“Rural Nahua Women under Spanish Colonization: The Late-Colonial Toluca Valley,” in Mesoamerican and Chicano Art, Culture, and Identity / El arte, la cultura, y la identidad mesoamericana y chicana, Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts, Supplemental Series 6, Robert Dash, ed., pp. 78–103. Salem, OR: Willamette University, 1994. <PDF>
“Pictorial Histories and Illustrated Historical Texts: Windows into Indigenous Society of Mesoamerica,” in Five Hundred Years After Columbus: Proceedings of the 47th International Congress of Americanists. New Orleans: Tulane University Press, 1994.
“The Evolution of the Indian Corporation of the Toluca Region, 1550-1810,” Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 22 (1992), 381–407. [Originally in Spanish: “La evolución de la corporación indígena en la región del Valle de Toluca, 1550–1810,” in Haciendas, pueblos y comunidades; los valles de México y Toluca entre 1530 y 1916, Manuel Mino Grijalva, ed. Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1991.]
“The Cosmic Conquest: Late-Colonial Views of the Sword and Cross in Central Mexican Títulos,” Ethnohistory 38:2 (Spring 1991), 176–195. <PDF>
“Adopted Saints: Christian Images in Nahua Testaments of Late Colonial Toluca,” The Americas 47:3 (January 1991), 259–293. <PDF>
“Gananes y cuadrilleros formando pueblos: región de Toluca, época colonial,” in Mundo rural, ciudades y población del Estado de México, Manuel Mino Grijalva, ed., pp. 91-143. México: El Colegio Mexiquense, Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, 1990.
“The Fundo Legal or Lands Por Razón de Pueblo: New Evidence from Central New Spain,” in The Indian Community of Colonial Mexico: Fifteen Essays on Land Tenure, Corporate Organizations, Ideology and Village Politics, Arij Ouweneel and Simon Miller, eds., pp. 117–129. Amsterdam: Center for Latin American Research and Documentation, 1990. <PDF>
“La búsqueda de la categoría de pueblo: retención de tierra y autonomía de indios comunitarios en México colonial, siglo xviii,” Encuentro (Guadalajara: El Colegio de Jalisco) 17 (1990), 5-36. [Originally published in English as, “The Pursuit of Pueblo Status: Land Retention and Autonomy for Community Indians in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexico,” UCLA Historical Journal 1 (1980), 3–25.] <PDF>
“Don Diego García de Mendoza Moctezuma: A Techialoyan Mastermind?” Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl (Mexico) 19 (1989), 245–268. <PDF>
“Pedro Villafranca y Juana Gertrudis Navarrete: falsificador de títulos y su viuda (Nueva Espana, siglo xviii),” in Lucha por la supervivencia en América colonial, David G. Sweet and Gary B. Nash, eds., 472–485. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1987. <PDF>
ACADEMIC HONORS/EXTERNAL GRANTS:
Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Ethnohistory, given at the banquet of the annual meeting, Fargo, ND, September 21, 2024.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Lecturer for the Summer Institute organized by George Scheper and Laraine Fletcher, “Worlds in Collision: Nahua and Spanish Pictorial Histories and Annals in 16th-Century Mexico,” Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, June 29–30, 2022. https://worldsincollision2022.com/index.html
National Park Service, “Curriculum Development and Dissemination: Honoring the Shared History of the Trail,” an extension of the Honoring Tribal Legacies project (founded in 2010), September 2019–November 2021. Grant number 27329. Budget: $137,993.94. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Editions and Translations, “The Corpus Xolotl Project: Indigenous History and Performance in Aztec and Colonial Texcoco, Mexico,” October 2018–September 2021. Principal Investigator, Benjamin Johnson, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Consultant, Stephanie Wood, with a sub-award of $10,000 (2019).
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for School Teachers, “Discovering Native Histories along the Lewis and Clark Trail” (June 30–July 21, 2019), from Billings, MT, to Bismarck, ND. October 2018–December 31, 2019. Budget: $179,247.00. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator.
Western National Parks Association, “Honoring Tribal Legacies: Primary Sources for Use in Interpretation and Education along the Lewis and Clark Trail,” research project, 2017–2018. Budget: $7,500. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator. Published: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/honoringtriballegacies/primary-sources/.
National Park Service, “Dissemination Strategies for Honoring Tribal Legacies in the Studies of Lewis and Clark: An Epic Journey of Healing,” to support webinars, in-service trainings, and other forms of dissemination, 2014–2018. Budget: $137,362. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator, assuming the role in January 2015. (Original P.I. was UO College of Education Professor CHiXapkaid. I was co-P.I. prior to becoming P.I.)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Implementation Grant, “Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early-Modern Optical Character Recognition for Primeros Libros.” P.I. Sergio Romero, University of Texas at Austin. 2015–2017. Consultant, Stephanie Wood, on optical character recognition for Nahuatl. Sub-award: $6,000. See also this research report.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Grant, “Mesoamerican Cultures and their Histories: Spotlight on Oaxaca!” Budget: $199,629. October 2014–December 2016. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator.
National Park Service, “Designing Curriculum to Honor Tribal Legacies in the Study of Lewis and Clark: An Epic Journey of Healing,” to support two edited volumes in print and in PDF, plus e-publications of curricula. Fall 2010–May 2015. Budget: $187,446. Principal Investigator, assuming the role in January 2015. (Original P.I. was UO College of Education Professor CHiXapkaid.)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Grant, “Mesoamerican Cultures and their Histories: Spotlight on Oaxaca!” Budget: $195,603. October 2013–May 2015. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator.
Fulbright Scholar/Senior Specialist grant for collaborations at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin around Mesoamerican digital collections, July 25–August 15, 2012. The Specialist designation was conferred upon Stephanie Wood in 2010 by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and amounted to a five-year term. Grant funded the airfare and provided free lodging and per diem.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Enhancement Grant, Supplement to the Summer Institute, for enhancing “Virtual Oaxaca,” a 3-D space in the Smithsonian’s Latino Virtual Museum for locating curricular projects. Budget: $10,000. October 1, 2010–December 31, 2011. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Grant, “Mesoamerican Cultures and their Histories: Spotlight on Oaxaca!” Budget: $183,435. October 2010-December 2011. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Dissemination and Impact Grant, Supplement to the Summer Institute, for creating “Virtual Oaxaca,” a 3-D representation of archaeological sites, museums, arts communities, and an ethnobotanical garden. Budget: $10,000. July 2010-June 2011. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator, in collaboration with Gabriela Martínez of the University of Oregon.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Grant, “Mesoamerican Cultures and their Histories: Spotlight on Oaxaca!” Budget: $185,561. January-December 2010. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator.
National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, Documenting Endangered Languages Grant, “An Online Nahuatl Lexical Database: Bridging Past, Present, and Future Speakers.” Budget: $350,000. July 2009-July 2012, University of Oregon, Eugene, and Instituto de Docencia y Ethnología de Zacatecas. Stephanie Wood, Project Director and Principal Investigator, in collaboration with Co-PI John Sullivan and the Wired Humanities Projects team. Here’s a news announcement about the grant, and the online dictionary.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Resources Grant, “Text-Image Linking Environment,” July 2009-July 2011. Dorothy Porter, Principal Investigator. WHP collaboration: Stephanie Wood. Sub-award: $14,200.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Grant, “Mesoamerican Cultural Heritage: Resources for Enhancing High School History Classes.” Budget: $178,318. July-August 2008, University of Oregon, Eugene. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator, collaborating with Judith Musick and the Wired Humanities Projects team.
National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, “The Kislak Techialoyans at the Library of Congress: Digital Facsimiles with English and Spanish Translations.” Total budget (including cost share): $235,354. 2006-08. Stephanie Wood, Principal Investigator, collaborating with Judith Musick and the Wired Humanities Project team. Published in this digital collection: Mapas Project.
Howard Cline Book Prize 2005, Honorable Mention, for Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003). Conference on Latin American History, Philadelphia, January 6, 2006.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for book project, “Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico,” 1996-97.
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, for archival research in Mexico, 1981-82.
Chancellor’s Intern Fellowship, highest award for doctoral study at UCLA, 1979–84. $40,000.
College Honors, Honors in History, Honors in Latin American Studies, Honors on the History Oral Examination, Highest Honors for the Senior Thesis; University of California, Santa Cruz, 1977.
President’s Undergraduate Fellowship, Mexico, summer 1977. Senior thesis research in the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City, México.
PUBLICATIONS / WEB:
Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs (https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org), brainstormed at a seminar in Germany in 2017 with Gordon Whittaker; database begun in 2019 with funding from NEH (a subaward from Benjamin Johnson’s Codex Xolotl project); beta version published 2020; under expansion 2022–present, with support from the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Technical assistance from Ginny White, Len Hatfield, and Dave Elliot. Click here for a public presentation, “The Genius of Aztec Hieroglyphs” (2021). The project will continue to expand.
Honoring Tribal Legacies digital curriculum collection, edited by CHiXapkaid, Ella Inglebret, and Stephanie Wood. Published on line by Stephanie Wood and Shuo Xu of the Wired Humanities Projects in 2016, with funding from the National Park Service. Expanded with two new curricular units and ten primary sources for use in classrooms anywhere, 2019. Expanded with ten new curricular units in 2020. <https://blogs.uoregon.edu/honoringtriballegacies/teachings/>
Nahuatl Dictionary <http://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org>. With major contributions from John Sullivan and contemporary native speakers from the Eastern Huasteca, from Frances Karttunen, James Lockhart, and including sixteenth- and nineteenth-century vocabularies and attestations. Online, searchable, trilingual vocabulary list in Nahuatl, English, and Spanish. Built by the Wired Humanities Projects with a period of support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation (Documenting Endangered Languages Grant, 2009–2013), the Knight Library, the Center for Advanced Technology in Education, and the Vice President for Research at the University of Oregon. Digital design and database management by Ginny White, Len Hatfield, and Jamil Jonna. Under continual expansion, but with over 38,000 entries to date, and the password protection was removed in June, 2007. Migrated to a Drupal platform and re-published in 2019.
Mapas Project <https://mapas.wired-humanities.org>. Wired Humanities Projects with two years support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2006–2008), and with internal support from the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Vice President for Research at the University of Oregon. Ginny White and Ryan Jonna developed the design, and Ginny White maintains the database and web interface. Published without passwords and with four manuscripts from the Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress, fall 2008. I not only co-direct the project, but I personally developed all the image descriptions, transcriptions of text, and English translations for the four Kislak Techialoyan manuscripts. The project is currently undergoing expansion with more manuscripts and the involvement of more scholars. Migrated to a Drupal platform and re-published in 2019.
Early Nahuatl Library <https://enl.wired-humanities.org>. This project was built and is being expanded by the Wired Humanities Projects, under the direction of Stephanie Wood and with major assistance from Ginny White. An online, searchable database and publication of textual colonial manuscripts in Nahuatl, this represents an international collaborative project with input from additional scholars, such as James Lockhart, Robert Haskett, Caterina Pizzigoni, Miriam Melton-Villanueva, Lidia Gómez García, Jane Walsh, and Justyna Olko. More collaborations are pending. Justyna Olko and team at the University of Warsaw will also be providing some resources from the European Research Council for the expansion of this digital collection. This project was begun as the Early Nahuatl Virtual Library Project (ENLVP), but was remodeled, renamed, and published anew in 2013. Migrated to a Drupal platform and re-published in 2019.
“Mexican Women’s Self-Expression through Dress,” Episode 43, The Oxford Comment (Podcast), May 2018, <https://blog.oup.com/2018/05/mexican-womens-self-expression-dress-oxford-comment/>
“Digital Resources,” a collection of full-text essays edited by Stephanie Wood, making up a section of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, under the editor-in-chief, William Beezley (Oxford University Press, first published early in 2017, but continually expanding). My role will end in 2020. <http://bit.ly/2ozTSzl>
Mesoamerican Cultures and their Histories <https://blogs.uoregon.edu/mesoinstitute/>. This site compiles resources developed for use in National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes for U.S. teachers, K-12, offered in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2015 in Oaxaca, Oax., Mexico. It also hosts participants’ curricula developed and distributed freely here for use in classrooms everywhere. Stephanie Wood, General Editor. Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon. First published in 2015.
“A History of Tacos and Cigarettes,” An “Ask the Experts” Answer for the “Aztecs” Webpage at Mexicolore, ed. Ian Mursell <http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/index.php?one=azt&two=ask&tab=ans&id=12>, February 2006.
A number of digital collections are currently off line pending their migration to a new database format. These include four additional indigenous language dictionaries (Mixtec, Zapotec, P’urhépecha, and Yucatec Maya), the Age of Exploration Digital Map Collection, the Text in the Textiles, Presente! Art of the Disappeared, the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive, Digital Cahuleu, La Malinche: From Whore/Traitor to Mother/Goddess, The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Criolla to Guerrillera , Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Transforming Portraits, Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist, World Icon, Women in Mesoamerica, Gender in Early Mesoamerica.
PUBLICATIONS / BOOK REVIEWS:
Review of Indigenous Life after the Conquest: The De La Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico, by Caterina Pizzigoni and Camila Townsend, appearing in Renaissance and Reformation, 45:2 (Spring 2022).
“A Road Map for Iconology,” a review of Latin American Icons: Fame Across Borders, eds. Dianna C. Niebylski and Patric O’Connor, appearing in Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, 12:3 (Spring 2015). <Download PDF>
“The Search for Answers about the Cardona,” a review of The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure, by Arnold J. Bauer, appearing in A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, 7:3 (Spring 2010). https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/542
Review of Cave, City, and Eagle’s Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2, eds. Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions, appearing in A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, 6:3 (Spring 2009), 229–241. Co-authored with Robert Haskett. <Download PDF>
Review of Conquered Conquistadors. The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan: A Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala, by Florine G. L. Asselbergs, appearing in Mesoamérica, 49 (July 2007), 179–80.
Review of Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico, by Camila Townsend, appearing in A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, 4:3 (Spring 2007), 219–33. <Download PDF>
Review of Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala, eds. Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano, and Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Munón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, appearing in the The Americas 63:3 (January 2007), 474-76. <PDF>
Review of Roots of Identity: Language & Literacy in Mexico, by Linda King, appearing in The Americas 54:3 (January 1998), 463-464. <PDF>
Book note on Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexico, by William B. Taylor, appearing in Religious Studies Review 23:3 (July 1997), 315.
Review of Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence, by Enrique Florescano, appearing in The Historian 58:3 (Spring 1996), 640-641.
Review of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, volume 50 (1991), edited by Dolores Moyano Martin, appearing in Ethnohistory 39:4 (Fall 1992), 543-545.
Review of Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana, 1498-1820, by Neil L. Whitehead, appearing in the Hispanic American Historical Review 70:3 (August 1990), 498-499.
Review of Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power and Colonial Society, 1520-1800, by Serge Gruzinski, appearing in The Americas 47:1 (July 1990), 123-125.
Review of Trade, Tribute, and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico, by Ross Hassig, appearing in the Business History Review (Spring 1987), 172-173.
TRANSLATION:
Panzós: 33 Years Later (1978–2011), A Catalogue. A translation, with Samuel David Wilton, of the book in Spanish by Marlon García Arriaga, Panzós: 33 años después (Guatemala City: FLACSO and Rights Action, 2011). Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon, 2012. <E-Book>
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC AWARDS/GRANTS/RECOGNITION:
“Visual Recognition of Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Decipherment Tool,” Google Summer of Code awards, featuring Lisardo P. Lugones (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), Tarun Nagdeve (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati), and co-mentors, Professors Jungseock Joo (UCLA) and Juan José Batalla Rosado (Universidad Complutense), 2021 and 2022.
“Seed Grant” for the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, from the Center for Latin@ and Latin American Studies, University of Oregon, in collaboration with David Elliott, Juan Carlos González (Nahua), and Joseph Scott (Siletz), 2020–2021.
“Collaborative Faculty Grant” from the Center for Latin@ and Latin American Studies, University of Oregon, in collaboration with June Black and Carlos Aguirre, about art and human rights in Latin America, 2015–2017.
“Preventing Genocide Grant” from the University of Oregon for a collaboration about preventing further genocide in Guatemala. With other Latin American Studies faculty at the University of Oregon, Carlos Aguirre, Gabriela Martínez, Michelle McKinley, and Lynn Stephen, 2013–2014.
“Multilingual Conversations on Migration, Culture, and Language Retention,” Grant from the Center for Latin@ and Latin American Studies, University of Oregon, in collaboration with Richard Hanson, Proyecto Trilingüe (Oaxaca, Mexico), 2012–13.
Winner, New Media Consortium’s “Free Island in Second Life!” Competition. Co-Principal Investigator, with Jonathon Richter, Director, Center for Learning in Virtual Environments, University of Oregon. April 2010-September 2010.
National Endowment for the Humanities, “Enabling Geospatial Scholarship,” Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, May 2010. Admission to participate in this workshop at the University of Virginia. With Ginny White.
“Americas” Research Interest Group Development Grants for research in Mexico, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
“Chinese Scrolls Digital Collection,” Global Scholars Program Grant, Office of International Affairs, University of Oregon, 2009–2010.
Gender and ICT Award Finalist, for the “Digital Teaching Units for Gender in History,” (see below, under Publications/Web Sites), Feminist Humanities and Wired Humanities Projects, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2003.
“Reclaiming the Past” Research Interest Group Development Grant for research in the U.K., Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2002.
“Reclaiming the Past” Research Interest Group Development Grant for research in the U.K., Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2001.
Individual Research Grants, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2000, 1999.
Teaching Fellowships, Women’s Studies Department, University of Oregon, 1998-99, 1997-98.
Film Grant, International Education, University of Oregon, for the purchase of Latin American films for the Instructional Media Center, 1995.
Travel Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, for travel to an international meeting, 1988.
Achievement Awards, University of Maine, 1988, 1987.
Faculty Summer Research Award, University of Maine, 1986.
Summer Grant, Women in the Curriculum, University of Maine, 1985.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS:
“Indirect Ecclesiastical Influence in Nahuatl Hieroglyphic Writing,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, March 15, 2024.
“Nahua Hieroglyphic Discoveries through Aggregation,” a presentation for the virtual conference of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, “Indigenous Voices of Mexico in the Digital Age,” October 26, 2023. Program: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/indigenous_voices_program_10_23.pdf Presentation video link coming soon.
“The Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs: Illuminating a Graphic Communication System,” Library of Congress, June 21, 2023. (link below)
“Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Database in Progress,” part of the Kislak Workshop, “Nahuatl Hieroglyphic Writing: Approaches, Discoveries, and Questions,” organized by Kislak Chair Stephaie Wood, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., April 17–18, 2023. Paper presented on April 17, 2023.
“Un análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de los detalles de los jeroglíficos nahuas en el Códice Mendocino,” II Congreso Internacional sobre Códices y Manuscritos Coloniales, Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo, 8 March 2022. http://cultura.hidalgo.gob.mx/2o-congreso-internacional-sobre-codices-y-manuscritos-coloniales/
“Repositorios: Early Nahuatl Library y Nahuatl Dictionary,” Humanidades digitales y textos alfabéticos en lenguas indígenas, Coloquio Internacional, coord. Berenice Alcántara Rojas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, November 4, 2021.
“El lenguaje de la ‘conquista’ en manuscritos nahuas coloniales,” Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos, Paris, August 25, 2021.
“Un léxico visual de glifos nahuas,” for the international congress, “Codices y Manuscritos Coloniales,” Secretaría de Cultura de Hidalgo, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Culturales, April 6, 2021.
“Reevaluating the Impact of the ‘Conquest of Mexico’ at 500 Years,” a panel discussion, American Historical Association (on line), Mar. 16, 2021; and, previously, for the Conference on Latin American History (on line), Jan. 7, 2021.
“Ten New Teachings from Honoring Tribal Legacies,” National Indian Education Association, annual convention (virtual), Oct. 9, 2020.
“La memoria de la conquista en los mapas y títulos hechos para los pueblos, siglos XVII–XX,” Keynote Lecture, Coloquio “500 Años de Historia Indígena: Reflexiones y Debates,” El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 25–26 Septiembre, 2019. Streaming video.
“Honoring Tribal Legacies: Curriculum Design and Dissemination,” Oregon Indian Education Association annual meeting, Eugene, Oregon, May 10, 2019.
“Mesoamerican (Text)iles: Persistence of Indigenous Iconography in Women’s Weaving,” Textile Society of America, Vancouver, British Columbia, September 22, 2018.
“La producción de manuscritos por talleres y el bienestar de los pueblos,” Fuentes y temas de etnohistoria mexicana, El Colegio Mexiquense, Toluca, Mex., Mexico, October 25, 2017.
“300 Years of Alphabetic Writing in Nahuatl,” a contribution to the one-day symposium, “Reading the First Books: Colonial Documents in the Digital Age,” LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX, May 30, 2017.
“Nahua Ways of Presenting the Past in Stage 3 Pictorials and Títulos,” American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting, Nashville, TN, November 10, 2016.
“La escritura indígena en la Nueva España,” Keynote Lecture, XXXVIII Coloquio de Antropología, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico, October 27, 2016. Available for free streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81eIf7V_9VU
“The Puebla-Tlaxcala Maps and Manuscripts in the Library of Congress: Nineteenth-Century Contrivances of Early Modern Records,” presentation at the conference, “Facts of Fictions: Debating the Mysteries of Early Modern Science and Cartography, A Celebration of the 500th Anniversary of Waldseemüller’s 1516 Carta Marina,” Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, October 6, 2016.
“Los mapas de los estados de Puebla y Tlaxcala hechos por Melesio Yáñez y socios, siglo XIX,” Keynote Lecture, Tercera Sesión, Cartografía Indígena, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, October 6, 2015.
“Honoring Tribal Legacies,” Mountain-Plains Museum Association annual meeting, Wichita, KS, September 29, 2015.
“A Gradually Widening Nahuatl Literacy in New Spain,” Northeastern Group of Nahuatl Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 6, 2015.
“Nahuatl Terms Relating to Conquest,” part of the panel discussion, “‘The New Conquest History’—New Approaches to the Spanish Conquest of Mexico,” American Historical Association annual meeting, New York City, NY, January 5, 2015.
“How did the Nahuas Speak of War and Conquest and What Can Language Evidence Suggest about Cross-Cultural Influences?” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Austin, TX, May 31, 2014.
“University of Oregon-AHPN and UO-UT Austin Collaborations (Around Guatemalan Archives),” Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C., May 30, 2013.
“World View and Identity in European- and Indigenous-Authored Maps,” 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria, July 15–20, 2012.
“Popular Literacy among the Nahuas after 1650,” Workshop on Indigenous Literacy in Mesoamerica and the Colony (underwritten by the Wrenner-Gren Foundation), John Carter Brown Library, Brown University and Illinois State University, Providence, June 15–27, 2012.
“Getty Research Portal: Potential for Mesoamerican Art History,” Symposium on the Getty Research Portal, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, May 30–June 1, 2012.
“YMDI Distance Research Environment,” Symposium on the Yemeni Manuscript Digital Initiative, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, May 2012.
“Los títulos de los pueblos indios de México,” Keynote Lecture, for the Simposio Internacional, Códices y Manuscritos Mesoamericanos,” El Colegio Mexiquense, Zinacantepec, Mexico, September 2, 2011.
“Puebla/Tlaxcala Indigenous-Community Forged Maps of 1870: Reaching Back to Sixteenth-Century Traditions,” American Historical Association, Boston, January 2011.
“Transcending ‘Conquest,'” a presentation for the roundtable session, “What is the New Conquest History?” American Society for Ethnohistory, Ottawa, Canada, October 2010.
“La Virgen de Guadalupe: Guerrillera de 1810, 1910, y 2010,” V Coloquio Internacional de Historia de Mujeres y Género en México, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca México, March 2010.
“Aquí y ahora: Percepciones del tiempo y del espacio en los títulos primordiales,” (“Here and Now: Perceptions of Time and Space in Primordial Titles”), 53rd International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, México, July 2009.
“Conquest Lite: Techialoyan Tlacuilos Look Back on the Spanish Invasion,” American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting, Eugene, OR, November 2008.
“Social Memory and Collective Identity in the Local Histories of Colonial Mexican Indigenous Communities,” Latin American Studies Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
“El poder y la mujer en los pueblos de indios, México, 1500-1800” (“Women and Power in Indigenous Communities, Mexico, 1500-1800”), XVIII Roundtable of the Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Mexico City, México, 2007.
“Nahuas’ Reshaping of the European Concepts of ‘Mapas’ and ‘Títulos’ in New Spain,” 52nd International Congress of Americanistas, Seville, Spain, 2006. (Summarized orally in Spanish.)
“An Odd Basket of ODDs: The Mapas Project.” Digital Humanities annual meeting, Paris, France, 2006.
“The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive: Exploring Expansion Possibilities, Automated Harvesting, and Migration to MySQL.” Poster Session, Digital Humanities annual meeting, Paris, France, 2006.
“The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive: An Electronic Finding Tool for Primary and Secondary Sources,” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials annual meeting, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2006.
“The Online Nahuatl Dictionary: A Model for Interdisciplinary Multicultural Collaboration,” with Judith Musick, Association for Computing in the Humanities annual meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2005.
“Pedagogical Uses for the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive,” with Judith Musick, MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) International Conference, Costa Mesa, CA, 2004.
“Creating a Distance Research Environment (DRE) for the Mapas Project,” with Judith Musick, Association for Computing in the Humanities, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2004.
“Medieval Women Online: New Digital Materials for Research & Teaching,” Modern Language Association annual meeting, San Diego, California, 2003.
“The Founding Couple in Early Mesoamerican Gender Ideology,” 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, 2003.
“The Techialoyan Codices and Aztec Revivalism in the Late-Seventeenth Century,” Conference in honor of James Lockhart, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2002.
“A Guadalupan Sermon in Nahuatl from the Colonial Period,” American Catholic Historical Association, Portland, OR, 2002.
“Mexican Female Icons: Negotiated Biographies, Strengthening and Contesting Patriarchy,” American Historical Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2002.
“Frida and Coyolxauhqui: Teaching Gender in Mexican History with the Net,” American Historical Association annual meeting, Boston, MA, 2001.
“Digitizing Women’s History: The Collaborative Efforts of the Feminist Humanities Project,” Digital Resources for the Humanities, Sheffield, England, U.K., 2000. With Judith Musick and Daniel Gilfillan.
“¿El otro otro? Interpretando imágenes de españoles en los códices y textos indígenas,” Tercer Simposio Internacional: Códices y Documentos sobre México, Puebla, México, 1996.
“The Ajusco Town Founding Document: Affinities with Documents of the Sixteenth Century,” Segundo Simposio Internacional: Códices y Documentos sobre México, Taxco, México, 1994. (Presentation actually given in Spanish.)
“Caciques’ Influence over Community History: Negotiated Identities in the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, of the Tlaxcalan Tradition,” American Historical Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1994.
“A Critique of Conquest: The Primordial Title of Ajusco, Central New Spain,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1992.
“An Uncomfortable Fit: Nahuatl Títulos in a Spanish Legal Context,” Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) Symposium, “Native Traditions in the Postconquest World,” Washington, D.C., 1992.
“Los códices Techialoyan,” Keynote presentation for the opening of the academic year at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología and the Columbian Quincentenary, Mexico City, 1992.
“The Historicity of Títulos and Techialoyan Codices,” 47th International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, LA, 1991.
“Nahua Views of Christianization and Saint Worship,” Second Conference on Hispanic Cultures of the Pacific Coast of the Americas, Eugene, OR, 1991.
“The Cosmic Conquest: Late-Colonial Views of the Sword and Cross in Toluca Valley Títulos,” 8th Meeting of Mexican and North American Historians, San Diego, CA, 1990. (An expanded version of the study presented in The Netherlands.)
“Indigenous Women, Colonization, and Culture Change: Glimpses of Daily Life in Nahua Testaments,” American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Portland, OR, 1989.
“Adopted Saints: Christian Images in Nahua Testaments of Late Colonial Toluca,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 1988.
“Formando pueblos: comunidades de trabajadores de haciendas de labor y minas, valle de Toluca y alrededores, época colonial,” Primer Coloquio sobre el Estado de México: Historia y Mundo Rural, Ciudades y Demografía, Toluca, México, 1988.
“Accepting the Sword and Cross? Views of Spanish Conquest in Indian Títulos of Colonial Mexico,” 46th International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1988.
“The Fundo Legal or Lands Por Razón de Pueblo: New Evidence from Central New Spain,” 46th International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1988. (An expanded version of the study presented in Washington, D.C., in 1987.)
“Comparing Notes: Techialoyan Texts and Other Colonial Nahuatl Writings,” Northeast Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, SUNY-Albany, Albany, NY, 1988. Also presented in 1987 at the 5th International Symposium of the Latin American Indian Literatures Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
“The Fundo Legal or Indian Town Site of Central New Spain: New Evidence from the Toluca Valley,” American Historical Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 1987.
“The Evolution of the Indian Corporation of the Toluca Region, 1550-1810,” 7th Meeting of Mexican and North American Historians, Oaxaca, México, 1985.
“Nahuatl Primordial Titles: Local Production or Regional Manufacture?” American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, 1984.
“Fact or Fabrication? Nahuatl and Spanish-Language Títulos from the Valley of Toluca,” Aztec Tertulia (Southern California Symposium), Los Angeles, CA, 1984.
“Historical Matter in the Títulos of Capulhuac,” American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Diego, CA, 1983.
“Nahuatl and Spanish Títulos from Indian Towns in the Valley of Toluca,” Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Park City, UT, 1983.
INVITED PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
“Know Mystery: The Genius of Aztec Hieroglyphs,” Hispanic Heritage Month, Deschutes Public Library, Bend, Oregon, October 9, 2021.
“500 Years Later: Teaching the Conquest of Mexico through Indigenous Eyes,” UCLA Latin American Institute, Professional Development Workshop, June 14–18, 2021.
“The Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Work-In-Progress Report,” Eugene, Center for Latin@ and Latin American Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, April 7, 2021.
“Digital Resources Relating to the Spanish Invasion and Colonization of Mexico,” UCLA Latin American Institute and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, June 23, 2020. (A Zoom presentation for schoolteachers in Los Angeles.)
“Surreptitious Support for Central Mexican Indigenous Sovereignty: Map and Land-Grant Workshops, 17th–20th Centuries,” University of California, Davis, April 29, 2019.
Mesa Redonda sobre la Conquista, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, October 27, 2017.
“Honoring Tribal Legacies in the Classroom,” Oregon Indian Education Association, annual meeting, Ashland, Oregon, April 21, 2017.
“Thematic Intersections in Nahua Texts and Pictorials (Late-Colonial Mexico),” University of Warsaw, Poland, March 22, 2017.
“Presente! Art and the Disappeared,” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, March 10, 2017. Stream the presentation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8fIXDrJCGs&feature=youtu.be
“Grant Writing in the Humanities,” a workshop for graduate students in Latin American Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, January 17, 2017.
“Mesoamerican Codices Art Project,” a presentation for for Mamás, Latina women’s art class at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, January 14, 2017.
“Honoring Tribal Legacies,” a lecture for Prof. Michelle Jacob’s education course, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 15, 2016.
Two lectures for the Summer Teachers’ Institute, “Understanding the Many Faces of Latin America through Art and History: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism,” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, June 23–28, 2013.
“Tools of the Colonizer for Altepetl Use,” Leiden University, The Netherlands, May 15, 2013.
“Ahora y aquí: El tiempo y el espacio entre los nahuas, según documentos coloniales,” Leiden University, The Netherlands, May 17, 2013.
“Defending the Altepetl in the Spanish Colonial Context: Indigenous-Authored Records from Mexico,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, April 22, 2013.
“Planting CEEDs: Culture Exchange, Education, and Diversity (in Oaxaca and Oregon),” a grantee presentation for the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 4, 2013.
“The Online Nahuatl Dictionary Project,” University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, October 26, 2012.
“Mesoamerican Manuscript Treasures: Before and After European Contact,” University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, October 25, 2012.
“Mexicans, Latin@s, Oregonians: Reconstructing their History in the Digital Age,” White Stag, Portland, OR, May 4, 2012.
“Manuscript Studies and the Nahuatl Dictionary Project,” Textualities in the Digital Age Symposium, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 14, 2012.
“Testamentos de mujeres nahuas en los pueblos de la Nueva España,” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, April 12, 2012. Seminar presentation.
“El vocabulario náhuatl y el género,” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, April 12, 2012. Seminar presentation.
“Achichina, mujer rebelde,” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, April 12, 2012. Seminar presentation.
“El papel de la mujer indígena en las migraciones legendarias, las fundaciones de pueblos, y la defensa del altepetl,” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, April 11, 2012. Public address.
“Proyectos Digitales Mesoamericanos,” Seminario Internacional de Aplicaciones den Redes Avanzadas, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, August 30, 2011.
“Humanities Scholars Take the Digital Leap in Teaching and Research,” Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, April 22, 2010.
“Latin American Icons: Symbolic Capital,” Hispanic Heritage Month, Deschutes Public Library, Bend, Oregon, October 3, 2009; also presented to the Redmond Public Library, Redmond, Oregon, October 4, 2009.
“Fundadora y defensora de pueblos: La mujer indígena en los Códices Techialoyan (Siglo XVII),” La Casona de las Mujeres, Cholula, Puebla, México, July 23, 2009.
“El poder y la mujer en los pueblos de indios de Mesoamérica, 1500-1800,” a presentation and historiography workshop for the young women on scholarship at the Casa de la Mujer, Grupo de Estudios de la Mujer “Guadalupe Musalem,” Oaxaca, México, March 13, 2009.
“Proyectos digitales sobre Mesoamerica: Wired Humanities, Universidad de Oregon,” Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, México, March 10, 2009.
“El género en la historia de México: Figuras icónicas,” Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, México, March 10, 2009.
“La Malinche: From Traitor/Whore to Mother/Goddess,” a Road Scholars presentation sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of by invitation of the Spanish Department at Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR), February 5, 2009. [Earlier presentations by invitation of the Deschutes Public Library (Bend, OR), April 8, 2006; Art Department, Chemeketa Community College (Salem, OR), October 19, 2005, and as a Teaching & Tea Presentation, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, February 12, 2004.]
“Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist, World Icon,” a Road Scholars presentation sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of Carlos Aguirre for his Latin American history course, April 11, 2013. [Earlier presentations by invitation of Fiesta Latina (Springfield, OR), September 12, 2008; the Women’s Resource Center, Portland Community College, Cascade Campus, Portland, OR, March 10, 2008; the Romance Languages Department, Oregon State University, November 15, 2007; the Sisters Library , Sisters, OR, March 10, 2007; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute/University of Oregon Central Oregon, April 28, 2006; Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR, April 12, 2005; the Association for Lifelong Learning, Corvallis, OR, February 9, 2005; the Yamhill Arts Council, Amity, OR, October 18, 2004; the OASIS retirement group, Eugene, OR, June 2, 2004; the Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR, May 7, 2004; the Deschutes Public Library, Bend, OR, September 28, 2003; the Lake Oswego Library, Portland, OR, May 14, 2003; the Cedar Mill Community Library, Portland, OR, May 15, 2003; and, the Hillsboro Library, Portland, OR, January 26, 2003.]
“The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Creole Symbol to Guerrilla Fighter,” a Road Scholars presentation sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of the Fiesta Latina, Springfield, OR, September 13, 2008. [Earlier presentations by invitation of the Multnomah Public Library, Portland, OR, St. John’s Location, December 1, 2007; the Deschutes Public Library, Bend, OR, December 9, 2006; the River Road Parks District, Eugene, OR, January 25, 2005; and, the Learning in Retirement Group, Eugene, OR, February 9, 2004.]
“The Women of Embroidering Freedom: Indigenous Migrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Courts of the State of Oregon,” by invitation of Judge Ann Aiken for the judges’ conference, “The Challenges of Legal Communication in the 21st Century,” U.S. Federal Courthouse, Eugene, OR, November 30, 2007.
“Employing Technology to Analyze Gender Roles in Mesoamerican Manuscripts: Recent Advances in the Mapas Project,” with Judith Musick. A noon talk, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 28, 2007.
“Introduction to the Mapas Project: Digitizing Pictorial Manuscripts from Mesoamerica,” with Judith Musick, a presentation to staff and fellows of Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute (Harvard University), Washington, D.C., October 17, 2007.
“Mapas y manuscritos en náhuatl de la zona Tlaxcala-Puebla: Creando recursos digitales” (“Mapas and Nahuatl Manuscripts from the Tlaxcala-Puebla Zone: Creating Digital Resources”), Centro Tlaxcalteca de la Cultura and Pueblos Indígenas del SEPUEDE, Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, México, August 13, 2007.
“Los códices Techialoyan del Estado de Hidalgo” (“Techialoyan Codices from the State of Hidalgo”), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo, México, August 8, 2007.
“La memoria social en la identidad de los ‘pueblos de indios,’ Nueva Espana” (“Social Memory in the Identity of Indigenous Communities of New Spain”), Congress on Primordial Titles organized by Amos Megged of Haifa University and Sebastián van Doesburg, Biblioteca Burgoa, Centro Cultural de Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, México, August 2, 2007.
“Soldaderas: Female Mexican Revolutionary Figures, Larger than Life,” a Road Scholars presentation sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of the Arts and Culture Festival, Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, OR, April 16, 2007. [Earlier presentations by invitation of the Central Library and Hollywood Library, Portland, OR, both on March 18, 2007.]
“Frida Kahlo: International Icon,” radio interview at KOPT 1600 AM, Eugene, OR, March 28, 2006.
“The Virgin of Guadalupe,” radio interview at KOPT 1600 AM, Eugene, OR, December 13, 2005.
“El género y el espacio virtual. ¿Cómo ensenar y estudiar la historia de las mujeres mexicanas usando fuentes digitales?” Instituto Mora, Mexico City, México, October 24, 2005.
“Emphasizing Militancy in Mexican Female Icons,” part of a series, “International Perspectives on Women, Gender, and Sexuality,” University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 12, 2005.
“El Proyecto Mapas y el Archivo Virtual Mesoamericano: Dos recursos para avanzar los estudios mesoamericanos,” Universidad de las Américas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, August 22, 2005.
“Translating Nahuatl,” Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro, México, July 25, 2005.
“The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive,” presentation to staff and fellows of Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute (Harvard University), Washington, D.C., May 20, 2005.
“The Mapas Project,” Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, November 5, 2004.
“Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico” (book highlights), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18, 2004.
“Frida Kahlo: Artista mexicana, ícono mundial,” a Road Scholars presentation in Spanish sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of Womenspace Latina Support Group, Eugene, OR, December 2, 2004.
“Mesoamerican Treasures: The Kislak Techialoyan from Tolcayuca and the Mapas Project,” Jay I. Kislak Mesoamerican Museum, Miami Lakes, FL, May 13, 2004.
“Now What? Nahuatl! Introduction to the Aztec Language,” multi-media presentations for Foreign Language and International Studies Day, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 30, 2004. (Earlier presentations also: April 25, 2003, April 27, 2001, April 28, 2000, April 30, 1999, and May 1, 1998.)
“El Archivo Virtual Mesoamericano: poniendo fuentes históricas al acceso público,” Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, México, May 9, 2003.
“The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Criolla to Guerrillera,” Teaching and Tea Presentation, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, January 16, 2003.
“El género en los estudios mesoamericanos,” Museo Felgérez, Zacatecas, México, November 21, 2002.
“El papel de la mujer en la construcción de los pueblos mesoamericanos,” Palacio Legislativo del Estado de Tlaxcala, México, November 15, 2002.
“Títulos, Techialoyans, and Mexican Ethnohistory,” invited presentation for the graduate seminar in Colonial Latin American Literature, University of California, Berkeley, CA, February 2002.
“Dating the Bodleian Nahuatl Sermon,” invited presentation for the faculty reading group on Colonial Latin America, University of California, Berkeley, CA, February 2002.
“Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist, World Icon,” four presentations for Women’s History Day, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, March 9, 2001.
“Mexico’s Founding Mothers and Fathers: Early Mesoamerican Gender Complementarity?” grant report, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, March 7, 2001.
“Using the Gender in History Database to Teach Aztec Culture,” for the “Teaching and Tea” pedagogical seminars for university and high school faculty, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 9, 2000.
“Women of Mesoamerica: Gender Complimentarity and Hierarchy,” for the “Teaching and Tea” pedagogical seminars for university and high school faculty, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, December 10, 1998.
“Gender Constructs in Town Guardianship, Colonial Mesoamerica,” for Reclaiming the Past, Research Interest Group of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, May 29, 1998.
“Intruders or Allies? Portrayals of Spaniards in Indigenous Records of Colonial Mexico,” Hispanic Division, Library of Congress, Washingon, D.C., May 10, 1995.
“Indigenous Views of the Conquest of Mexico,” Linfield College, McMinnville, OR, April 21, 1993.
“Aztec Women under Spanish Colonization,” Willamette University, Salem, OR, March 29, 1993.
“‘We No Longer Accept the Discover Card:’ Rethinking Columbus [through Political Cartoons],” Freshman Honor Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 18, 1992.
“The Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco: Indigenous Allies of the Spanish Remember the Conquest,” Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 13, 1992.
“Aztec, Maya, and Inca Views of the Spanish Invasion,” for the Latin American and Caribbean Student Organization, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 13, 1992.
“Columbus: The Legacy,” Chemawa Indian School, International Indigenous Peoples’ Day Symposium, Salem, OR, October 12, 1992. (Sharing the podium with Father Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua.)
“Recognizing Rape in the Conquest of Latin America,” Part of a Roundtable Discussion, Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Corvallis, OR, August 14, 1992.
“Uncomfortably Close Encounters: Sexual Assault in the Conquest of Latin America” (three presentations), Miracle Theater Group, Portland, September 17; Central America Project, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, May 18; and, Department of History, Columbian Quincentenary Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 23, 1992.
“Perspectivas indígenas sobre la evangelación y la adoración de los santos: época colonial, Valle de Toluca,” invited public lecture, El Colegio Mexiquense, Toluca, México, August 2, 1992.
“Nuevas consideraciones sobre los códices ‘Techialoyan,'” Convocation Keynote Talk, Escuela Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, México, July, 1991.
“Indigenous Views of the Conquest of Mexico,” Department of History, Portland State University, Portland, OR, February 26, 1990.
“Bad Deeds? Unorthodox Property Titles and the Struggle for Land in Colonial Mexico,” Department of History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, February 2, 1989.
“Unorthodox Land Titles of Colonial Mexican Indian Towns,” Department of History, University of California, Riverside, CA, February 5, 1988.
“U.S. Covert Operations: Guatemala’s ‘Operation Success’,” Convocation Panel, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, September, 1988.
“Brazil’s Multi-Cultural Heritage,” presentation for a panel entitled, “Brazil Today: A Look at the Forces Shaping It,” for the International Week Forum, Focus on Brazil, University of Maine, Orono, ME, April 15, 1987.
“An Overview of Nicaraguan Cultural and Social History,” lecture presented on behalf of the Bucksport Area Peace Action Committee, Orland, ME, February 2, 1987.
“Debt, Drugs, and Democracy: What’s Behind the News on Mexico,” presentation for a panel entitled, “¿Qué Pasa? What’s Happening in Latin America?” at the Maine Center for the Arts, Orono, ME, November 11, 1986.
“Crisis in Central America: An Historical Perspective,” lecture presented on behalf of the Aroostook Peace Action Coalition, Caribou, ME, May 9, 1986.
“Background on Central America,” lecture presented on behalf of the Concerned Citizens of Southern Aroostook, Houlton, ME, February 28, 1986.
“From Huipil to Silk Petticoat: Researching Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts of Mexico,” Women in the Curriculum, University of Maine, Orono, ME, December 3, 1985.
“The Historical Roots of Turmoil in Central America,” Third World Forum, University of Maine, Orono, ME, April 15, 1985.
“Army Wives and Native American Women: Interaction on the Frontier,” Women’s History Week Presentation, University of Maine, Orono, ME, March 5, 1985.
“Central America,” Respondent to the News of the World Forum, University of Maine, Orono, ME, February 11, 1985.
“Indian Town Formation in the Toluca Valley, Colonial Period,” Mesoamerican Network (Southern California Symposium), Hermosa Beach, CA, 1983.
INVITED FILM INTRODUCTIONS & DISCUSSIONS:
Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, Super Amigos, Margaret Mead Film Series, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 29, 2009.
Introduction to and discussion leader for the films, Discovering Dominga and Artist of Resistance, University of Oregon, April 19, 2007.
Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, Señorita Extraviada, University of Oregon, April 12, 2007.
Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark, University of Oregon,Eugene, OR, April 5, 2007.
Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas, University of Oregon,Eugene, OR, May 4, 2005.
Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, The Unapologetic Life of Margaret Randall, University of Oregon, April 20, 2005.
Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, Under Fire, University of Oregon,Eugene, OR, April 6, 2005.
Introduction to and discussion leader for film, 11’09″01: September 11, in “The Other September 11th Film Series,” University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 9, 2003.
Introduction to and discussion leader for film, Death and the Maiden, in “The Other September 11th Film Series,” University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 30, 2003.
Introduction to the European premiere of The Sixth Sun: Maya Uprising in Chiapas, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, The Netherlands, May 21, 1997.
Introduction to The Last Zapatista, for Latin American history and Latin American culture classes, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, February 21, 1996.
Introduction to the East Coast premiere of The Last Zapatista, Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., September 5, 1995.
Introduction to the film, Lizzie: An Amazon Adventure, for International Week Forum, Focus on Brazil, University of Maine, Orono, ME, April 17, 1987.
Discussion leader for film, Vacation Nicaragua, for the Latin American Film Festival, Eastern Maine Campaign for Peace in Central America, Bangor, ME, April 12, 1987.
Discussion leader for film, Castro’s Challenge, for the Latin American Film Festival, Eastern Maine Campaign for Peace in Central America, Bangor, ME, April 8, 1987.
Introduction to and discussion leader for film, The Darklight of Dawn, on Guatemala, for the Latin American Film Festival, Eastern Maine Campaign for Peace in Central America, Bangor, ME, April 6, 1987.
Discussion leader for film, The Yankee Years, about U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, for the Eastern Maine Campaign for Peace in Central America, Bangor, ME, March 11, 1987.
Discussion leader for films, Waiting for the Invasion and Americas in Transition, on Nicaragua and Latin America in the twentieth century, for the Peace and Justice Film Series, University of Maine, Orono, ME, February 5, 1987.
Discussion leader for film, Testimonio: Así Avanzamos, on Nicaragua, for the Maine Peace Action Committee, December 4, 1986.
Discussion leader for films, In the Name of Democracy and Road to Liberty, on El Salvador, Foreign Film Series, University of Maine, Orono, ME, March 6, 1986.
Historical introduction to the film El Salvador: Another Vietnam, and discussion leader, Peace Action Film Series, University of Maine, Orono, ME, February 14, 1985.
DOCUMENTARY FILM RESEARCH, PRODUCTION, AND CONSULTING:
Appearance in a short documentary: “Navigating Knowledge [The Mapa de Mixtepec],” with Pam Endzweig and Robert Haskett, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon. Spring 2019.
Co-Producer, with Tom Smith, National Park Service, for Justin Deegan’s documentary, “Honoring Tribal Legacies,” June 2019. 8’20”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpTwmJh8C4&feature=youtu.be
Co-produced The Mapa de Santa María Guelacé, a video with Gabriela Martínez. Editor Shuo Xu. 2015. 15 minute documentary about a seventeenth-century pictorial map from Mexico. https://youtu.be/OR9HZMiSWjc
Interview in Honoring Tribal Legacies. Emily West Hartlerode, Director. Oregon Folklife Network. 2014.
Photographic stills and subtitle proofreading contributions, Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala, Gabriela Martínez, Director/Producer, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon. Premiered October 2013. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9IVxfTeQMU
Video recording of the meeting “From Silence to Memory: Revelations of the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional [Guatemala],” Stephanie Wood, Chair, October 2013. http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/2013/10/30/from-silence-to-memory/
Video recording for the meeting, “Textualities in the Digital Age,” of a presentation by Stephanie Wood about “Manuscript Studies and the Nahuatl Dictionary Project,” 2012. http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/2012/04/30/textualites-in-the-digital-age-session-ii-projects-ii/
Teaser, Burgoa Library. Video short with interviews about manuscript preservation and restoration, the importance of archives, and indigenous-authored manuscripts for bringing balance to history. Gabriela Martínez, Director and Producer. 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E40gtR_XJdc.
Monte Albán. Clip with an interview about Zapotec writing and interpreting the “Danzantes” stone carvings at this Oaxacan archaeological site. Gabriela Martínez, Director and Producer. 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZJ-6RBJ9ds
Interviewed for UO Today about the Online Nahuatl Lexical Database. Barbara Altmann, Director, Oregon Humanities Center. 2010. http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/2010/02/05/uo-today-434-stephanie-wood/
Photographic stills contribution and subtitle proofreading contributions, Women, Media and Rebellion in Oaxaca, Gabriela Martínez, Director/Producer. 2008.
Consultant/Research, video documentary, Absolute Zero, segment on ice harvesting in Maine. Meredith Burch, Producer. Aired on PBS in January 2008.
Director of Research for Meridian Productions, working with Director/Producer Saul Landau on the video documentary, The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas, Fall 1995. Aired on PBS in 1996. (I also introduced the European premiere and led the discussion at the University of Copenhagen, May 27, 1997.)
Consultant, video documentary, The Last Zapatista. Susan Lloyd, Producer and Director, 1995. Aired on PBS in 1996. (I also introduced the premiere showing and led the discussion at the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, September 29, 1995.)
Consultant, Indigenous Versions of the Conquest of Mexico, for the video documentary, Columbus and the Age of Discovery, WGBH-TV Boston, Rachel Field, Producer, 1989. Aired on PBS in 1991.
FILM FESTIVALS:
Organizer, “Human Rights in Latin America Film Series,” University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Spring 2007.
Co-Organizer, with other Latin American Studies faculty, “Dreams and Nightmares: Latin America in the 21st Century, a Film Series,” University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 20-June 1, 2006.
Organizer, “Central America and the Cold War: A Film Series,” University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Spring 2005.
Organizer, “The Other September 11th Film Series,” (films about Chile, 9/11/73), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Fall 2003.
MANUSCRIPT CONSULTING:
Consultant, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress (Washington D.C.), identification of a colonial Nahuatl manuscript, 2007.
Consultant, Arader Galleries (New York), report on colonial Mexican manuscripts, 2006.
Consultant, Christie’s Auction House (New York), authentification of colonial Mexican manuscripts, 1998-99.
Consultant, H. P. Kraus Rare Books and Manuscripts (New York), identification and evaluation of colonial Mexican manuscripts and rare books, 1999, 1986.
Consultant, Colonial Mexican Manuscripts in Nahuatl at the Bancroft Library (Berkeley), National Education Television, American Film Foundation, Terry Saunders, Producer, 1986.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Peer reviewer, University of California Press, 2020.
Getty Research Institute, Florentine Codex Project, consultant, September 2018.
Symposium Organizer, “Indigenous Written Expression in New Spain: Early and Late,” 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, Spain, July 16, 2018.
Getty Research Institute, Portal Advisory Group, 2012 and May 2018.
Peer reviewer, Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Inquiry, 2018.
Editor for Nahuatl contributions, Open Iberia/América Teaching Anthology. David Wacks, General Editor. 2018.
Editor, H-Nahuatl, a listserv of the larger community of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, 2017–.
Reviewer, grant proposals, National Endowment for the Humanities, summer institutes and seminars, 2016.
Peer reviewer, book manuscript, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2016.
Doctoral Dissertation Committee, Outside Member, for Tara Malanga, Nahua Ethnohistory, Colonial Mexico, Rutgers University, 2015–.
Reviewer, fellowship proposals, National Endowment for the Arts, 2014.
Reviewer, digital humanities grant proposals, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C., 2012.
Panel Moderator, “We Must Know Who to Forgive: Truth and Reconciliation in Guatemala,” War and Memory Symposium, University of Oregon Law School, October 19, 2012.
Co-Organizer, “Visual and Textual Dialogues in Mesoamerica,” a three-day panel for the 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, July 2012.
Panel Chair, “The Many Conquests of America,” American Historical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2011.
Co-Organizer, “Negotiating Encounters: Cross-Cultural Communication, Translation, and Interplay in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerica,” a week-long symposium, University of Warsaw, for June 2010.
Board Member, New Media Consortium, Campus Leader Advisory Board for University of Oregon, 2009–2010.
Co-Organizer, “Time and Space in Mesoamerican Cultural Memory,” a two-day panel for the 53rd International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, July 2009.
Panel Chair, “Cartographic Encounters in Colonial Mexico,” American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting, Eugene, Oregon, November 2008.
Commentator, “Mesoamerican Testaments and Testators,” American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting, Eugene, Oregon, November 2008.
Referee for CD-Rom, University of Texas Press, 2008.
Referee for articles, Ethnohistory 2008; Ethnohistory and Historical Reflections, 2007; Historia Mexicana, 2006; Hispanic American Historical Review, 2003; Relaciones (Mexico), 2003; Colonial Latin American History Review, 1999; Journal of Women’s History, 1998-1999.
Peer review of book manuscript, Duke University Press, 2007.
Commentator, “Genocide in the Americas” Panel, part of the Witnessing Genocide: Representation and Responsibility Conference, University of Oregon, April 29, 2007.
Commentator,”Transcending Narratives: Contestation and Accommodation in Colonial Mesoamerican Texts,” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 18, 2006.
Commentator, “Caras y máscaras del México étnico: La participación indígena en las formaciones del Estado Mexicano,” XXVII Coloquio de Antropología e Historia Regionales, El Colegio de Michoacán, October 26-28, 2005.
Co-Organizer, with other Latin American Studies faculty, of the symposium, “Smoldering Ashes: Revisiting the Legacy of the Cold War in Central America,” University of Oregon, May 5-7, 2005.
Co-Organizer, with other Latin American Studies faculty, of the symposium, “Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America: 30 Years after September 11th,” University of Oregon, Fall 2003.
Commentator, “Cacicas and Capullanas in the Colonial Andes” panel, American Historical Association, Boston, January 5, 2001.
Commentator, “Mesoamerican Histories” Roundtable, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), Washington D.C., 1995.
Panel organizer, annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Stanford University, 1992.
Panel organizer (two-day panel), 47th International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, 1991.
Commentator, Nahuatl Historical Literatures Panel, 5th International Symposium of the Latin American Indian Literatures Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1987.
Peer review for book, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
Referee for grant applications, Foundation for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, 2003; Concejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (México), 2001; National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987-89.
Conference Organizer (in conjunction with European organizer Hanns Prem and Mexican organizer Constanza Vega) and chair of two half-day sessions of the international meeting, “Tercer Simposio de Códices y Documentos,” Puebla, Mexico, August 18-23, 1996.
Lecturer, National Endowment for the Humanities, at two 1989 and one 1992 Summer Institutes for Faculty, “Encounter of Cultures: European and Indigenous Versions of Conquest,” Mexico City; “Recreating the New World Contact: Indigenous Languages and Literatures of Latin America–Problems of Translation,” Austin; and, “European Exploration: Contacts with the Cultural Other, 1400-1650,” Part 4, “Europeans and the Americas–The Aztecs,” Salem.
Prize Judge: Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1999; Judith Lee Ridge Prize, Western Association of Women Historians, 1990, 1991.
TECHNICAL TRAINING:
Scholarly Edition Production (Electronic) Workshop, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, with Dorothy Porter. University of Victoria, British Colombia, June 2007.
Advanced Text Encoding Initiative Workshop, with Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, November 2004.
Text Encoding Initiative Workshop, with Susan Schreibman. Gothenburg University, Sweden, June 2004.
XSLT Workshop, with Susan Schreibman. Gothenburg University, Sweden, June 2004.
TEACHING AND SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON:
COURSES TAUGHT (term and year — not counting independent readings supervision for credit):
Latin American Studies 407, Human Rights in Guatemala, seminar, SU15.
Latin American Studies 407, Human Rights in Latin America, seminar, W14.
History 199, The Columbian Quincentenary, SU92
History 199, Latin American History through Film, SU95 (twice)
History 380, Introduction to Latin American History (Colonial), F92, F94
History 381, Introduction to Latin American History (19th C.), W93
History 382, Introduction to Latin American History (20th C.), S93, S96, S00
History 399, Human Rights in Latin America through Film, S07.
History 399, Latin American History through Film, S96, W98, S00
History 399, History of Women in Latin America, W99, W00
History 399, Malinche & Guadalupe: The Mexican Whore-Virgin Dichotomy, SU99
History 399, Adelita & Ramona: Mexican Women in Insurrection, SU99
History 399, Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist, World Icon, SU99
History 410/510, Gender in History, W00, F03
History 410/510, Mexico’s Women Icons, S01
History 483/583, Revolutions in Twentieth Century Latin America, S92, S94
History 483/583, Latin American History through Film, S99, F01, W02
History 483/583, Mexico’s Women Icons, F99
Women’s Studies 399, Gender in History, S98, F00
Women’s Studies 399, Mexico’s Women Icons, F98
Women’s Studies 410/510, History of Women in Latin America, W98
Women’s Studies 410/510, Gender in History, S99
Spanish 101 (two sections), F95
Spanish 102 (two sections), W96
Spanish 318 (Literatura Colonial Hispanoamericana), W01, S01, F01
Study Abroad (NCSA London), London-Based NGOs that Reach into Latin America, S02
PH.D. THESIS GUIDANCE / ORAL EXAMS:
Josh Fitzgerald, early Latin American history, reading and commenting on dissertation, 2016-present.
David Orique, comprehensive exam field, early Latin American history, participating on oral exam, 2009; reading and commenting on dissertation, 2011.
Luis Ruíz, comprehensive exam field, Latin American history, participating on oral exam, 2008; reading and commenting on dissertation, 2008-present.
Kristina Tiedje, Anthropology, reading and commenting on dissertation, 2004.
Anuncia Escala, Romance Languages, reading and commenting on dissertation, 1993.
M.A. THESIS GUIDANCE / ORAL EXAMS:
Ana Orozco, Planning, Public Policy, and Management (reading and commenting on thesis), S14.
Lauren Killian, Art History (reading and commenting on thesis), S10.
David Orique, Latin American History, S07.
Fernando Calderón, Latin American History, S06.
John Lopez, International Studies and Architecture, early colonial adjustments to the layout of Mexico City, F05.
Alvaro Mardones Llanos, International Studies, “Cecilia Bolocco and the Construction of the Chilean Identity,” Su05.
Angela Tone, History, (no-thesis option), Latin American History, S05.
Annie Marges, History, (no-thesis option), Latin American History, S03.
Kathleen Burk, Folklore, “Altered Altars: Creating An Exhibition Out Of A Cultural Event [Mexican Day of the Dead in Oregon],” W03.
Anne Raddosevich, “Health Care in El Salvador,” International Studies, S02.
María Dolores Lizarzaburu, “The Impact of Alternative Trade Organizations on the Development of Rural Indigenous Artisan Women in Ecuador,” F01.
Francisco Murphy, Sociology, with a focus on early twentieth-century labor in Mexico, F00.
B.A. THESIS AND EXIT PAPER GUIDANCE / ORAL EXAMS:
Twentieth-Century Latin American History:
Erika Gibson, Honors College, “Third Culture Kids,” F02.
Jill Nicola, International Studies, “Saltando La Barda/Jumping the Fence: Mexican Immigration Stories,” S01. (Director: Lynn Stephen.)
Yuna Morita, International Studies, “Longing for Justice: The Voice from the Chiapas Highlands, Non-Violent ‘Las Abejas” and Torn Zapatistas (Chiapas, Mexico),” S00.
Marion McLean, International Studies, “Women’s Voices, Mexican Midwives,” S00.
Chelsea Perkins, International Studies, Honors Thesis, “Border Lines: NAFTA’s Effects on Women Along the U.S./Mexico Border,” S00.
John Adamson, International Studies, “International Human Rights Observation: The Situation in Mexico,” S99.
Joy Marcotte, International Studies, Honors Thesis, “From Marches to M-16s: The Fight for Women’s Rights in Mexico in the Past Two Decades,” S98.
Courtney Stern, International Studies, “Latin American Women’s Textile Cooperatives: Economic Survival, Cultural Preservation and Gender Issues,” S98.
Scott Currie, International Studies, “The Social Conscience of Latin American Film,” S98.
Katelyn Oldham, Honors College and History Thesis, “Dialogue and Mexicanidad in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo [Mexico],” F96. (Director: Linda Kintz.)
Jackie Wallace, International Studies, “Sandinista Health Care in Nicaragua,” F96.
Mary Ripley, International Studies Honors Thesis, “A Study of Mapuche Cultural Change Exemplified in the Role of the Shaman [Chile],” S96.
Marty I. Schmith, International Studies Honors Thesis, “Mobilization of Women within the Socialist Revolutionary Process: Nicaraguan and Cuban Women Demonstrate Progress Toward Emancipation,” S96.
Carrie Miller, International Studies, “Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Struggle in the Twentieth Century,” S96.
Cherstin Lyon, History Honors Thesis, “The Art of Survival: Women and the Feminine Voice of Protest in Chile,” F95.
Brandy Blackman, International Studies Honors Thesis, “Revolution and Equality: How Nicaraguan Women’s Lives Have Changed Since 1979,” SU95.
Karleen A. Scharf, International Studies, “The Women of Central America: Their Past Directs Them into the Future,” SU93.
Elizabeth Peterman, International Studies, “Women’s Participation in Revolution in Cuba and Nicaragua,” S92.
Tanya Heikkila, International Studies Honors Thesis, “Women’s Popular Political Organization in Latin American Revolutionary Movements: The Cases of Cuba, Nicaragua, and El Salvador,” W92. (Director: Galen Martin).
Denise Wallace, International Studies, “Working Women in Mexico: The Struggles Faced by Poverty,” W92. (Co-directed with Robert Haskett).
Colonial Latin American History:
Judith Osborn, History Honors Thesis, “The Castas Paintings of Mexico: Identities in Color,” S99. (Director: Carlos Aguirre.)
James Curtis, History Honors Thesis, “Tupi-Guaraní Cosmology and the Formation of Sedentary Society,” S99. (Director: Robert Haskett.)
Magan Crane, International Studies Honors Thesis, “Conquest, Cult, and Nationalism: A Discussion of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexican Cultural History,” S94.
Janel Nockelby, Honors College, “Nahua Christianity: The Religious Education of Nahuas and Mendicant Clergy in Sixteenth Century Mexico,” W93. (Director: Robert Haskett.)
Latinos in U.S. History:
Nicole Mione, “The Role of Art in El Movimiento,” International Studies, S99.
Linea Rein, International Studies, “The 150-Year Struggle of Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants in the United States,” W98.
Jonathon Patrick Poliquin, International Studies, “The Benefits of Bilingualism and Overcoming Discrimination: A Comparison of the Situations of the French Speakers of Canada and the Spanish-Speakers of the U.S.,” S96 (Director: Barbara Altmann, Romance Languages, who guided the French component).
ADDITIONAL ADVISING:
International Studies students: Amy Kott, Jocelyn Atkins, Sarah Marble, Kalub Jarosh, Francesco Bilello, Hollee Keegan.
Students at the Universidad Nacional de Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, the Universidad Iberoamericana, and the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
COMMITTEE WORK:
Oregon Latino Heritage Collaborative, 2011–2012.
Honoring Tribal Legacies, 2010–2021.
Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2005–2009.
Savage Committee on International Relations and Peace, 2002–2005.
Film Faculty Committee, 1999–2005.
Feminist Humanities Project, Board of Advisers, 1998–2009.
Latin American Studies Committee, 1991–2013. (Advisory Committee, 2011–2012; Executive Committee, 1991–1994, 2002–2008).
STUDY ABROAD INVOLVEMENT:
Helped set up and teach a study-abroad course on Human Rights in Guatemalan History in Antigua, Guatemala, that took place in the Summer 2015. With Carlos Aguirre (History) and Gabriela Martínez (School of Journalism and Communication).
Steering Committee, Friendship Foundation for International Students, University of Oregon, Fall 1995–2015.
Interamerican University Studies Institute, program development for Oaxaca, with attention to sending faculty from the College of Education wishing to develop collaborative research projects in Mexico. With Robert Jackson, IUSI Director. 2007 and 2008.
Office of International Programs, University of Oregon, panelist for an orientation for Northwest Council on Study Abroad faculty, Portland, 2006.
Overseas Study, Office of International Programs, University of Oregon. Faculty advisor for the Querétaro program. 2005-2006.
Oregon University System program at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, Summer 2005. Gave a presentation to prospective students interested in Oregon.
Interamerican University Studies Institute, Querétaro program, Resident Director, Summer Session II, 2005; 18 students.
Office of International Programs, University of Oregon, interviewing applicants for Northwest Council on Study Abroad, 2004.
AHA International, Northwest Consortium of Study Abroad program in London, Spring 2002. Taught and helped advise; 24 students.
Office of International Programs, University of Oregon, search committee service, 1998.
Oregon State System of Higher Education; Study Abroad Committee. Campus visits in Mexico to help select sites, 1991.