Peer review experience

I have reviewed book manuscripts for the University of Oklahoma Press, University of Michigan Press, Notre Dame University Press, University of Texas Press, American Academy of Franciscan History, University of Pittsburgh Press, Duke University Press, the University of Colorado Press and CIESAS, reviewed doctoral research proposals submitted to the Social Science Research Council's IDRF Programs, and served as peer-reviewer for articles submitted to the journals Hispanic American Historical Review, Ethnohistory, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, The Americas, Colonial Latin American Review, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Latin American Research Review, Identitities: Global Studies in Culture & Power, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Colonial Hispanic American Historical Review, Anales de Antropología, Itinerarios, Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, Antípoda, and Material Religion.

Public Lectures

UNAM, Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas (Mexico City). Las Guerras invisibles: Las devociones indígenas clandestinas en el México colonial; Alfabetización y textos rituales clandestinos nahuas y zapotecos: Propuestas de análisis. 11/14-15/2011.

New York University (New York, NY). Word and Time Reborn: An Indigenous Public Sphere in Colonial Mexico. 11/30/10.

University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA). Literate Idolatries: Writing, Power, and Clandestine Zapotec Texts in Colonial Mexico. 04/23/10.

CIESAS-Pacífico (Oaxaca, Mexico). De cantos de teponaztli a palabras elegantes: La apropiación cristiana de un género ritual zapoteco. 03/09/10.

Linné Universitet (Sweden). Postcolonial Forum: The Confrontation of Oral and Written Cultures. 09/14/09.

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco), M.A. Program in Historiography (Mexico City).Cosmología, escritura y disención: Propuestas metodológicas para el estudio de las prácticas religiosas nahuas y zapotecas en el período colonial . 01/18/07.

NEH and John Carter Brown Library Fellow Lecture (Providence, RI).Translated Christianities: Neologisms in Colonial Nahua and Zapotec Devotional Texts . 04/21/04.

Third Annual José Martí Lecture on Freedom and Struggle in the Americas, College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA).Invisible Wars: Native Resistance to Idolatry Extirpation in Colonial Mexico. 02/21/02.

Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York (Albany, NY).Nicachi Songs: Idolatry Extirpation and the Social Reproduction of a Zapotec Ritual Genre . 02/09/01.

Invited Presentations

The Word in Pictures, Collège de France (Paris, France). Don Pedro Moteucçoma's (Alleged) Catechism: A Palimpsest from Colonial Mexico 11/28/13.

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Canon on the Move, University of Leiden (Leiden, The Netherlands). Dangerous Christianities: Indigenous and Franciscan Scholars and the Nahuatization of the devotio moderna in Mexico. 05/15/13.

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2011, El Ritual Sonoro Catedralicio en la Nueva España y el México Independiente (Oaxaca, Mexico). Los cantos cristianos zapotecos de Villa Alta, Oaxaca. 11/18/11.

2010, The Farther Shores of Literacy: Amerindian Graphic Inventions and the World of Letters (Madison, WI). Rethinking Word and Time in Colonial Oaxaca. 11/05/10.

2010, American Society for Ethnohistory (Ottawa, Canada). Panel discussant, "The New Conquest History." 10/15/10.

21st International Congress of Historical Sciences (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Roundtable participant, "The Confrontation of Oral and Written Cultures." 08/25/10.

2010, University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA). Bezelao's Labor: Reappropriating Doctrinal Translations in a Zapotec Idolatry Confession. 04/22/10.

2009, American Society for Ethnohistory (New Orleans, LA). Reclaiming Rulership: A Strategic Rereading of a Nahua Pictorial Catechism. 10/01/09.

2008, Inquisition and Empire (Springfield, MO).The Eradication of Indigenous Devotions in Central Mexico: A Comparative Analysis . 02/09/08.

2006, The Francisco Belmar Conference on Otomanguean Languages (Oaxaca City, Mexico).La cosmología colonial zapoteca a través de los cantares de Villa Alta . 04/21/06.

Columbia University, (New York, NY). Andean Art Seminar, Professor Esther Pasztory . From Chimalpahin to Gamio: A Mexican approach to Americanist research . 04/23/05.

2003, Primer Taller de Interculturalidad, 51st International Congress of Americanists (Santiago, Chile).Las guerras invisibles: Proyectos anti-idolátricos y estrategias indígenas en Oaxaca (Nueva España) en el siglo XVII . 07/15/03.

Intellectual Elites and Collective Models in the Iberian World, 16th to 19th centuries, (Madrid, Spain).Letras clandestinas, textos tolerados: las élites intelectuales locales nahuas y zapotecas en el siglo XVII . 01/21/02.

Scholes Conference on Colonial Latin American History, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA).En manos de Dios Padre : Idolatry Extirpation Campaigns and Native Resistance in Villa Alta, Oaxaca, 1679 to 1704 . 03/30/01.

International Seminar on the Eighteenth Century (Los Angeles, CA).The interplay of native political autonomy and ritual practices in Villa Alta (New Spain) . 08/1-6/00.

The Indigenous Voice of Oaxaca, University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA).The Cantares Zapotecos of Villa Alta . 05/20/00.

Third International Conference on Cultural Mediators, CONDUMEX (Mexico City).De Cantares zapotecos a 'libros del demonio': Un género doctrinal híbrido . 09/29/99.

International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, MA) . Boundaries of evangelization: From ideologies of translation to dialectics of reception in early and mid-colonial Nahua doctrinal genres . Harvard University, 08/14/98.

First International Conference on Inquisition and Empire

In 2008, I served as a co-organizer for a three-day conference focusing on new perspectives on the social and cultural history of the inquisition and/or the extirpation of indigenous devotional practices in Mexico, Peru, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. This conference took place on February 8-10, 2008, and was hosted by Professor John Chuchiak of Missouri State University.

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Recent Conference Papers

2012, American Historical Association (Chicago, IL). Franciscan-Indigenous Authorship Communities and the devotio moderna in Colonial Mexico. 01/07/12.

2011, American Society for Ethnohistory (Pasadena, CA). Time and Space in Colonial Zapotec Cosmologies. 10/18/11.

2010, American Historical Association (San Diego, CA). Idolatry, Punitive Projects, and Incipient Modernity in New Spain. 01/09/10.

2009, American Anthropological Association (Philadelphia, PA). Doctrinal Nahuatl and Zapotec in the Colonial Public Sphere. 12/02/09.

2009, 53rd International Congress of Americanists (Mexico City). Palabra e imagen en la apropiación nahua de narrativas históricas coloniales. 07/24/09.

2009, American Historical Association (New York, NY). Indigenous Historiographies and the Reappropriation of Conquest Narratives in Mexico. 01/05/09.

2008 VII International Ethnohistory Conference (Lima, Peru). La conquista de México según Chimalpahin: una apropiación nahua de la narrativa canónica de López de Gómara. 08/06/08.

2008, Fernández de Miranda Conference on Otomanguean Languages (Oaxaca City, Mexico). Los calendarios zapotecos coloniales y la circulación de conocimientos rituales clandestinos en Oaxaca. 04/12/08.

2007, American Society for Ethnohistory (Tulsa, OK).Zapotec Time, Alphabetic Writing and the Public Sphere . 11/07/07.

2007, Latin American Studies Association (Montréal, Canada).Resistencias invisibles: La erosión de religiosidades alternas en en el México colonial . 09/05/07.

2007, Renaissance Society of America (Miami, FL).Rethinking Time in Seventeenth-Century Central Mexico . 03/22/07.

2007, American Historical Association (Atlanta, GA).Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identities in Central Mexico . 01/07/07.

2005, Sixth International Ethnohistory Conference (Buenos Aires, Argentina).Escritura y disención: Resistencia y cosmologías alternas en el México colonial . 11/24/05.

2005, Society for the Anthropology of Religion (Vancouver, Canada).Clandestine Devotions, Local Cosmologies: A Colonial Zapotec Ritual Song Corpus . 04/9/05.

2004, American Society for Ethnohistory (Chicago, IL).Translated Christianities: Language ideologies in colonial Nahua and Zapotec devotional discourse . 11/30/04.

2004, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (Santa Fe, NM).Autonomy, Honor, and the Ancestors: Local Devotions in Colonial Oaxaca . 03/13/04.

2004, American Historical Association (Washington, DC).From Shibboleths to Practices: Inquisitorial Readings of Native Identity in New Spain . 01/10/04.

2003, XI Meeting of Mexican, US & Canadian Historians (Monterrey, Mexico).Escritura, espacios clandestinos y resistencia: La extirpación de idolatrías en el siglo XVII . 10/02/03.

2003, 51st International Congress of Americanists (Santiago, Chile).Tierra e identidad comunitaria: Idolatrías y espacios de disención en Oaxaca, siglos XVII-XVIII . 07/16/03.

2002, American Society for Ethnohistory (Quebec, Canada).Zapotec Clandestine Ritual Songs: How to Read Colonial Oral Genres . 10/16/02.