Miruna Achim
obtained her Ph.D. at Yale University. Achim currently teaches at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Cuajimlapa, Mexico City. She specializes in the history of science and collecting. Her most recent publications include an anthology of José Antonio Alzate’s writings (Conaculta, 2012), From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico (Nebraska University Press, 2017), and, in collaboration with Irina Podgorny, Museos al detalle (Buenos Aires, Prohistoria, 2015).
Joan C. Bristol
is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. She is the author of Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century, as well as journal articles and book chapters on commodity history, the fermented beverage pulque, and female religious life in Mexico.
Alejandro Cañeque
is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on the political and religious cultures of New Spain and the Spanish Empire. He is the author of The King’s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico; Un cuerpo de dos cabezas. La cultura política del poder en la Nueva España. Siglos XVI y XVII; and most recently, Un imperio de mártires. Religión y poder en las fronteras de la Monarquía Hispánica.
Cristina Cruz González
received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2009 and is Associate Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University. She is a past Getty Research Fellow and has published in many journals including Religion and the Arts (2014), RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics (2014/2015), and The Art Bulletin (2017). She has completed a book manuscript on Franciscan image theory in New Spain and is currently researching a new project on Mexican confraternities.
Paula S. De Vos
teaches Latin American history and the history of science and medicine at San Diego State University. Her research, which has received support from the ACLS, NIH, and NEH, focuses on the development of Galenic pharmacy in late medieval and early modern Europe and its transmission to the Americas, particularly Mexico, under the Spanish Empire. She is co-editor of Science
Kelly Donahue-Wallace
is Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America 1521-1821 and Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment, as well as articles on Spanish colonial art in Print Quarterly, Colonial Latin American Review, The Americas, and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. Donahue-Wallace is the recipient of research fellowships and grants from Spain’s Program for Cultural Cooperation, Humanities Texas, the Fulbright Foundation, Indiana University, and the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund.
Iván Escamilla González
holds a Ph.D. in History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he is Professor and Researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. His current research projects include Reformism and Intellectual History of the Enlightenment in 18th-Century New Spain. He is the author of José Patricio Fernández de Uribe (1742–1796), El Cabildo Eclesiástico de México ante el Estado Borbónico (1999) and Los intereses malentendidos: El Consulado de Comerciantes de México y la monarquía española, 1700-1739 (2011), and co-editor of Resonancias imperiales: América y el Tratado de Utrecht de 1713 (2015) and Francisco Xavier Clavigero, un humanista entre dos mundos (2015).
Enrique González González
is Professor of History and Researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y Educación at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research focuses on humanism and education in colonial Latin America. He recently published El poder de las letras: Por una historia social de las universidades de la América hispana en el período colonial and is the author of three books and articles on the diffusion and reception of the works of Juan Luis Vives.
Luis Fernando Granados
holds a Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University (2008). He has taught at the University of Chicago, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Skidmore College. In 2015, he joined the Universidad Veracruzana. He is the author of Sueñan las piedras: Alzamiento ocurrido en la ciudad de México, 14, 15 y 16 de septiembre, 1847 and En el espejo haitiano: Los indios del Bajío y el colapso del orden colonial en América Latina.
has taught at the University of Colorado and the University of Arizona. Her dissertation focuses on 18th-century views of Mexico City.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
is Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has published numerous articles and chapters and has co-edited two anthologies. The most recent, with Javier Villa-Flores, is Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico. She is the author of several monographs including The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico. She is the recipient of the Tibesar Award and the Marston Lafrance Research Fellowship, as well as Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants.
John F. López
holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. and is Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of California, Davis. He specializes in the visual, material, and spatial intersections between early modern Europe and the New World. He is preparing a book, The Aquatic Metropolis, which examines the centuries-old efforts by the Aztec and Spanish to combat catastrophic inundation at Mexico City via image making, urban planning, and environmental change. López has authored articles on cartography, water, and ethnohistory and has edited special issues for the journals of Ethnohistory, Latin American Geography, and Monumentos históricos.
María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano
holds a Ph.D. in History and is a Research Fellow in the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Martínez López-Cano specializes in the history of finance and credit in colonial Mexico, a topic on which she has published several books. She is currently carrying out research into the Bull of the Holy Crusade in New Spain.
Barbara E. Mundy
holds the Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University. Mundy studies the visual culture of early modern Latin America. Her most recent book is The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (University of Texas Press, 2015).
Frances L. Ramos
is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida-Tampa and specializes in the cultural and religious history of colonial Mexico. Her award-winning book, Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla, examines
Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
is Assistant Professor in Residence of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Connecticut. His research analyzes cultural phenomena and the narratives of history they produce as contestatory practices that characterize modernity. He is the author of Playing in the Cathedral: Music, Race, and Status in New Spain (Oxford University Press, 2016), and editor of Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization (Lexington Books, 2020).
Matthew Restall
is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Penn State University. He edits Hispanic American Historical Review and book series with Cambridge University and Penn State presses. Focusing on three areas—Yucatan and the Maya; Africans in Spanish America; and the Spanish Conquest—his roughly 100 publications include: The Maya World; Maya Conquistador; Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest; The Black Middle; 2012 and the End of the World; The Conquistadors; and, most recently, When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting Than Changed History.
Antonio Rubial García
is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and full member of the Mexican Academy of History. He is the author of El convento agustino y la sociedad colonial (1533–1630), Una Monarquía criolla, La santidad controvertida, and El paraíso de los elegidos.
Martha Lilia Tenorio
is Professor of Hispanic Literature at the Colegio de México, where she specializes in the poetry of the Spanish Golden Age and New Spain. Tenorio has authored eight books and numerous articles, and from 2012 to 2015, was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago.
Stacie G. Widdifield
is Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona specializing in 19th- and early 20th-century Mexican art and has published widely in this area.