I am an ethnohistorian and linguistic anthropologist educated at Harvard College (A.B., 1992), and the University of Chicago (joint Ph.D. in anthropology & history, 2000),
and I joined Vassar's anthropology department in 2003. My courses focus on linguistic anthropology, language, culture & society, the anthropology and (ethno)history of Latin America, religion and colonial rule, and Mesoamerican studies.
My research interests include transatlantic/global colonial intellectual exchanges, evangelization and language policies, writing and power in the public sphere, and Nahua and Zapotec societies.
spring 2008
On sabbatical until Fall 2008.
office hours
Blodgett 319, by appointment only.
from left: the colonial Zapotec cosmos (courtesy Archivo General de Indias); a crowned Mexica eagle (courtesy Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Fonds Mexicain); yours truly.