EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
- Ph.D., Colonial Mexican History, 9/1992
- MA, Latin American History, 3/1989
Oxford University, England
- Honorary MA, Modern History, 6/1989
- BA, Honors, First Class, Modern History, 6/1986

LANGUAGES

- Spoken: Spanish, French

- Read (varying levels): Yucatec Maya, Nahuatl, Latin, Portuguese
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
- Sparks Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, since 2007
- Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, 2004-07
- Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, 1998-2004
- Assistant Professor of History, Boston College, 1995-1998
- Assistant Professor of History, Southwestern University, 1993-1995
- Editor, Ethnohistory journal (2007-12)

AWARDS
- 19 total (year-long and short-term, plus honors)

BOOKS
- 2009 – The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
- 2009 – Black Mexico (editor)
- 2008 – La conquista de Mesoamérica: El caso de Don Gonzalo Mazatzin Moctezuma
- 2007 – Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars
- 2005 – Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala (editor and translator)
- 2005 – Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America (editor)
- 2003 – Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
- 2001 – Maya Survivalism (editor)
- 1998 – Maya Conquistador
- 1998 – Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes (editor)
- 1997 – The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850
- 1995 – Life and Death in a Maya Community: The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s

JOURNAL ARTICLES

- 2004 “Maya Ethnogenesis,” in Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 9:1 (Spring), 64-89

- 2004 “The Spanish Conquest Revisited,” in Historically Speaking V:5 (May/June), 2-5

- 2003 “A History of the New Philology and the New Philology in History,” in Latin American Research Review, 38:1 (February), 113-34

- 2002 “A Re-evaluation of the Authenticity of Fray Diego de Landa’s Relación de las cosas de Yucatán” (with John F. Chuchiak), in Ethnohistory, 49:3 (Summer), 651-69

- 2001 “Filología y etnohistoria: Una breve historia de la ‘nueva filología’ en Norteamérica,” in Desacatos: Revista de Antropología Social 7 (Autumn), 85-102

- 2000 “Otredad y ambigüedad: las percepciones que los españoles y los mayas tenían de los africanos en el Yucatán colonial,” in Signos Históricos, 2:4 (July-December), 15-38

- 2000 “Black Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Colonial Spanish America,” in The Americas, 57:2 (October), 171-205

- 2000 (with Jane Landers) “The African Experience in Early Spanish America” (guest editors’ introduction), in The Americas, 57:2 (October 2000), 167-70

- 1998 “The Ties that Bind: Social Cohesion and the Yucatec Maya Family,” in The Journal of Family History, 23:4 (October), 355-81 (shortlisted for CLAH Prize for best journal article on Latin American history in 1998)

- 1997 “Heirs to the Hieroglyphs: Indigenous Literacy in Colonial Mesoamerica,” in The Americas, 54:2 (October), 239-67

- 1995 “‘He wished it in vain’: Subordination and Resistance Among Maya Women in Colonial Yucatan,” in Ethnohistory, 42:4 (Fall), 577-94