Collaborating Scholars

 

International Collaborators

  • Florine Asselbergs, Independent Scholar, The Hague, Netherlands, is a collaborator on the expanded Mapas Project, especially the Mapa Circular de Quauhquechollan.
  • Florencio Barrera, Independent Scholar, Mexico, has contributed to the Mapas Project, in particular the Manuscrito Techialoyan de Mimiapan.
  • Juan José Batalla Rosado, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, will take part in creating the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
  • Beatriz Cruz, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Oaxaca, is a former raduate student working with Angeles Romero Frizzi. She collaborated on the Mapas Project, in particular, the Mapa de Guelacé.
  • Bas van Doesburg, Ethnohistorian and Academic Director of the Biblioteca Burgoa at the Centro Cultural Santo Domingo in Oaxaca, was a member of the core faculty of our NEH Summer Institutes in Oaxaca as well as a collaborator on the expanded Mapas Project, in particular the Mapa de Teozacoalco.
  • Lidia Gómez, a history professor at the Universidad Benemérita de Puebla, was once a part of the Nahuatl seminar of Maestro Luis Reyes García and is currently a collaborator on the Early Nahuatl Library project.
  • Raúl Macuil was once a part of the Nahuatl seminar of Maestro Luis Reyes García and is currently a collaboratoron the Early Nahuatl Library project.
  • Justyna Olko, Warsaw, Poland, is a collaborator on a number of projects; she and Stephanie Wood co-organized a symposium, “Negotiating Encounters: Cross-Cultural Communication, Translation, and Interplay in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerica,” June 21-27, 2010, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw, and co-organized a symposium, World View and Identity in European- and Indigenous-Authored Maps,” 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria, July 15–20, 2012.
  • Angeles Romero Frizzi, and investigator with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Oaxaca, was a member of the faculty of our 2010 NEH Summer Institute in Oaxaca.
  • Roberto Santos, Director, Centro Cultural de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico, is collaborating on the development of an online Mixtec dictionary and an online Fototeca Digital, with historical photographs of the Mixteca region.
  • Ignacio Silva, former Nahuatl translator at the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico, is a collaborator on the Mapas Project.
  • John Sullivan, Director, and Delfina de la Cruz de la Cruz, faculty member, of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ), Mexico, worked closely with us on a three year project funded by NSF and NEH to develop an online Nahuatl dictionary. Additional native speakers who collaborated include: Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz, Abelardo de la Cruz de la Cruz, Delfina de la Cruz de la Cruz, Victoriano de la Cruz Cruz, Sabina Cruz de la Cruz, Ofelia Cruz Morales, Catalina Cruz de la Cruz, and Manuel de la Cruz Cruz.
  • Mónica Szurmuk, Argentina, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about transatlantic feminisms and women’s narratives of travel and displacement.
  • Ed Trager, University of Michigan, will be contributing to the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
  • Gordon Whittaker, Germany, will be the principal scholar for the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

National Collaborators

  • Richard Conway, Assistant Professor, Montclair University, is a contributor to the Mapas Project, in particular, the Mapa de San Pedro Tlahuac, the Plano de Chinampas en Tlahuac, Mapa de Xochimilco (Sur), and the Plano de Chinampas en Xochimilco.
  • Jan Emerson, a schoolteacher in New York, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about Hildegard of Bingen (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Frances Karttunen, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin, donated her Nahuatl dictionary materials to ouronline Nahuatl Dictionary.
  • John López, Assistant Professor at UC Davis, collaborated on a map of Mexico City from the Codex Cardona, part of the Mapas Project.
  • Miriam Melton-Villanueva, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is a collaborator on the Early Nahuatl Library.
  • Martin Nesvig, Associate Professor, University of Miami, has contributed to the online Nahuatl Dictionary.
  • Caterina Pizzigoni, Associate Professor, Columbia University, has contributed to the online Nahuatl Dictionary.
  • Ronald Spores, Ethnohistorian and Professor Emeritus of Vanderbilt University, was a member of the core faculty in NEH Summer Institutes in Oaxaca as well as a collaborator on the expanded Mapas Project.
  • Amara Solari, Assistant Professor of Art History, Penn State University, has participated in our expanded Mapas Project, developing manuscripts from the Maya region, such as the Mapa de Mecatepec and the Mapa de Ocoapa.
  • Jonathan Truitt, Associate Professor, Central Michigan University, has participated in our expanded Mapas Project, in particular, a map of Mexico City from the Codex Cardona.
  • James Walker, Independent Scholar, is collaborating in the development of a digital collection of Age of Discovery Digital Maps Collection of early maps of the Americas.

University of Oregon Collaborators

  • Carlos Aguirre, History, has been collaborating on ¡Presente! Art and the Disappeared in Latin America.
  • Ina Asim, History, collaborated on proposals for the creation of a digital collection of Chinese scrolls.
  • Judith Baskin, Dean of the Humanities and Professor of Judaic Studies, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about Dolce of Worms, a figure from the scholarly leadership class of medieval German Jewry in the thirteenth century (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Louise Bishop, Honors College, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about the medicine of gender in fifteenth-century England (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Elizabeth Bohls, English, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about women and slavery in the British Caribbean in the nineteenth century (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Cristina Calhoon, Classics, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about power, poison, and politics in Ancient Rome (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Dianne Dugaw, English, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about warrior women in Anglo-American folksong and history (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Maram Epstein, East Asian Languages and Literatures, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about Chinese theme parks (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Robert Haskett, History, University of Oregon, is a collaborator in the Early Nahuatl Library project, including documents from Cuernavaca, Mexico, from 1559, 1579, and 1607.
  • David Hollenberg, Religious Studies, directs a digital Yemeni manuscript project upon which WHP collaborated in 2011–2012.
  • Gabriela Martínez, Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, was a member of our NEH Summer Institute faculty in Oaxaca for several years.
  • Karen McPherson, Romance Languages, developed a digital teaching unit with WHP, about poets and poetry of Quebec (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Amanda Powell, Romance Languages, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Gina Psaki, Romance Languages, developed a digital teaching unit with WHP, about the Roman de Silence (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Lynn Stephen,  Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, was a member of our NEH Summer Institute core faculty in Oaxaca for several years.
  • Ann Tedards, School of Music, developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about twentieth-century American women composers.  She also collaborated on another unit with Marilyn Linton, on German poetry and song. These projects were archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access.

Community Affiliates

  • Diane Downey developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about fathers and daughters in Shakespeare (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).
  • Melanie Hyers has collaborated in Spanish translations on the Mapas Project and ¡Presente! Art and the Disappeared in Latin America.
  • Jesús León-Monsalve has collaborated in Spanish translations on the Mapas Project and ¡Presente! Art and the Disappeared in Latin America.
  • Martha Ravits developed digital teaching unit with WHP, about Charlotte Perkins Gilman, women and economics (archived for lack of funding to obtain permissions to publish images and texts in open access).