Biographical Information

• Professor, specializing in Latin America, Mexico, Meso-American Ethnohistory
• B.A. 1975, California State University Long Beach
• M.A. 1978 at UC Los Angeles
• Ph.D in 1985 at UC Los Angeles
• With the U of O since 1987

Major Publications

• Co-Editor, Mesoamerican Ethnohistory Section, Handbook of Latin American Studies (a bi-annual annotated bibliography)
• Indigenous Rulers: An Ethnohistory of Indian Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca (University of New Mexico Press, 1991)
• "'Our Suffering with the Taxco Tribute:' Involuntary Mine Labor and Indigenous Society in Central New Spain," Hispanic American
• Historical Review (1991)
• "Indian Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca: Persistence, Adaptation, and Change" Hispanic American Historical Review (1987)
• "'Not a Pastor, But a Wolf:' Indigenous-Clergy Relations in Early Cuernavaca and Taxco," The Americas (1994)
• "Paper Shields: The Ideology of Coats of Arms in Colonial Mexican Primordial Titles," Ethnohistory (1996)

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

• William Spence Robertson Prize for Best Article in Hispanic American Historical Review
• National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers
• Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies

Current Research and Writing

• A book on indigenous labor in the Taxco silver mines in colonial New Spain; and research on Indian land titles and local history in Mexico.