Education:

Ph.D.    Latin American Studies/Latin American History, Tulane University, 2000

M.A.    Latin American Studies/Latin American History, Tulane University, 1994

B.A.    History/Chemistry, Cum Laude, Virginia Polytechnic & State University,

                  1992

 

Teaching Experience

Young Honors College Endowed Professorship, Honors College, Missouri State University, 2007-present

Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Missouri State University, 2007–present (Promotion granted as of March 2007)

Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Missouri State University, 2002–2007 (Early tenure granted as of August 2006)

 

Publications:

 

Books/Monographs

The Holy Office of the Inquisition in New Spain: A Documentary History, Ediciones Nueva España Series, Publication 2, Forbes Mills Press (Forthcoming, 2008).

 

The Indian Inquisition and the Extirpation of Idolatry in Yucatán: Religious Conflicts and Maya Resistance on a Colonial Mexican Frontier, 1563–1721 (Book manuscript currently under review)

 

Textbooks

(with Walther Kirchner) History of Western Civilization to 1500, HarperCollins Publishers, College Series, 2006.

 

Edited Volumes

(with Antje Gunsenheimer and Tsubasa Okoshi Harada) Text and Context: Analyzing Colonial Yucatec Maya Texts and Literature in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Bonner Amerikanistische Studien, Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie, Universität Bonn, Germany, (Forthcoming, 2008)

 

(with Bret Blosser, co-editor) Working in Spirit Worlds: Ritual Inebriation in Colonial Latin America, Edited volume of papers on ritual intoxicants and their use in Colonial Latin America (under review Summer 2007).

 

Scholarly Editions of Primary Sources in Translation

 

(with Matthew Restall) Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán, por Fr. Diego de Landa, Translation, Facsimile, and critical introduction and notes, Serie Fuentes, Centro de Estudios Mayas, México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Forthcoming, 2008)

 

(with Matthew Restall) The Friar and the Maya: Fray Diego de Landa’s Account of the Things of Yucatan, Volume 3, in the Series Primary Perceptions: Colonial Latin American Sources in Translation, Penn State University Press (Forthcoming, 2008)

 

Maya Idolatry: Dr. Pedro Sánchez de Aguilar’s Report on Idolatrous Cults in the Bishopric of Yucatan (1636), Volume 4, in the Series Primary Perceptions: Colonial Latin American Sources in Translations, Penn State University Press (Under contract)

 

Refereed Journal Articles

 

“The Sins of the Fathers: Franciscan Missionaries, Parish Priests and the Sexual Conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545–1785” in journal Ethnohistory, Vol. 54:1 (Winter 2007), pp. 71–129, Special Edition on Sexuality & Gender in the Colonial Americas, John F. Chuchiak & Pete Sigal (guest edition editors).
 

 

“The Medicinal Practices of the Yucatec Maya and their Influence on Colonial Medicine in Yucatán, 1580–1780” in Change and Continuity in Mesoamerican Medicinal Practice, special edition of the Swedish Americanist Society’s peer-reviewed journal Acta Americana, edited by John F. Chuchiak and Bodil Liljefors Persson (eds), Vol 10, Nr 1–2, (2006): 32–57.

 

“El regreso de los autos de fe: Fray Diego de Landa y la extirpación de idolatrías en Yucatán” in Península: Revista semestral de la Coordinación de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Vol. 1, Núm. 0, 2006, pp. 29–47

 

“Maya Scribes and Colonial Literacy in Colonial Yucatán,” in Human Mosaic: A Journal of the Social Sciences, Volume 36:1 (2006), pp. 77–91.
 

“In Servitio Dei: Fray Diego de Landa, the Franciscan Order, and the Return of the Extirpation of Idolatry in the Colonial Diocese of Yucatán, 1573–1579,” in The Americas, Vol. 61, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 611–645 (Winner of Honorable Mention for Tibesar Prize 2006)

 

“Cuius Regio Eius Religio: Yucatec Maya Nativistic Movements and the Religious Roots of Rebellion in Colonial Yucatán, 1547–1697” in Ketzalcalli, Vol. 1, N0.1 (Fall 2004), pp. 44–59.

 

 (with Victoria Bricker, Gaby Vail, et al), “New Perspectives on the Madrid Codex,” in Current Anthropology, Volume 44, No. 5 (Fall 2003), pp. 105s-112s.

 

“By Faith, Not Arms: Franciscan Reducciones, the Frontier Mission Experience, and the Subjugation of the Maya Hinterland, 1602–1697” in Swedish Missiological Themes, Vol. 91, No. 2 (Fall 2003), pp. 215–248.

 

(with Matthew Restall), “A Re-evaluation of the Authenticity of Fr. Diego de Landa’s Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán,” in Ethnohistory: Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Vol. 49:3, pp. 651–670.

 

“Toward a Regional Definition of Idolatry: Reexamining Idolatry Trials in the Relaciones de Meritos and their role in defining the Concept of Idolatria en Colonial Yucatán, 1570–1780,” in Journal of Early Modern History, Volume 6, No. 2, pp. 1–29.

 

Guest Editor’s Introductions

 

(with Dr. Pete Sigal, Duke University) “Ethnohistory of Alternative Sexualities in New Spain” Ethnohistory, Vol. 54:1 (Winter 2007), pp. 3–8.

 

(with Dr. Bodil Liljefors Persson) “Mesoamerican Medicine Ancient and Contemporary,” in Change and Continuity in Mesoamerican Medicinal Practice, special edition of the Swedish Americanist Society’s peer-reviewed journal Acta Americana, edited by John F. Chuchiak and Bodil Liljefors Persson (eds), Vol 10, Nr 1–2, (2006): 2–13.

 

Refereed Book Chapters & Articles

 

“De Descriptio Idolorum: An Ethnohistorical Examination of the Production, Imagery, and Functions of Colonial Yucatec Maya Idols and Effigy Censers, 1540–1700” in Maya Worldview at Conquest, University of Colorado Press, Timothy Pugh & Leslie Cecil, (eds), (Forthcoming, 2008).

 

 “Forgotten Allies: The Origins and Role of Native Mesoamerican Auxiliaries and Indios Conquistadores in the Conquest of Yucatán, 1526–1550” in Indian Conquistadors: Native Militaries in the Conquest of Mesoamerica, Michel Oudijk and Laura Matthew (eds.), University of Oklahoma Press, 2007, pp. xxx-xxx

 

 “The Secrets Behind the Screen: Solicitantes in the Colonial Diocese of Yucatán, 1570–1770” in Religion in New Spain, University of New Mexico Press, Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole (eds.), 2007 pp. 113–146.

 

“‘U hahil ca than yalan juramentoil-Maya Scribes, Colonial Literacy, and Indigenous Petitions: The Nature of Text and Context in Maya Petitionary forms in Colonial Yucatán” in Gunsenheimer, Okoshi, and Chuchiak (eds.) Text and Context: Analyzing Colonial Yucatec Maya Texts and Literature in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Bonner Amerikanistische Studien, Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie, Bonn, 2007, pp. 132–167.

 

“De Extirpatio Codicis Yucatanensis: The 1607 Colonial Confiscation of a Maya Sacred Book - New Interpretations on the Origins and Provenience of the Madrid Codex” in Sacred Books, Sacred Languages: Two Thousand Years of Ritual and Religious Maya Literature, Rogelio Valencia Rivera  and Geneviève Le Fort, (eds), Acta Mesoamericana, Vol. 18, 2007, pp. 113-140.

 

 “Yaab Uih Yetel Maya Cimil: “Colonial Plagues, Famines, Catastrophes and their impact on Changing Yucatec Maya Conceptions of Death and Dying, 1580–1794” in Jaws of the Underworld: Life, Death and Rebirth among the Ancient Maya, Publication of the British Museum, London, Elizabeth Graham (ed.), 2006, pp. 3-20.

 

“Franciscan Reducciones and the Frontier Missions, 1602- 1640” in John F. Schwaller (editor), St. Francis in America: The Franciscan Experience in the Americas, Academy of American Franciscan History, 2006, pp. 119–142.

 

“ La inquisición Indiana y la extirpación de idolatrías: El castigo y la Reprensión en el Provisorato de Indios en Yucatán, 1570–1690” in Ana de Zaballa Beascoechea (editor) Nuevas Perspectivas Sobre el Castigo de la Heterodoxia Indígena en la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XVIII, Bilbao: Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain, 2005, pp. 79–94.

 

“Papal Bulls, Extirpators and the Madrid Codex: The Content and Probable Provenience of the Madrid 56 Patch,” In The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript, edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony F. Aveni, University of Colorado Press, 2004, pp. 74–114.

 

“The Images Speak: The Survival and Production of Hieroglyphic Codices and Their Use in Post-Conquest Maya Religion, 1580–1720,” in Maya Religious Practices: Processes of Change and Adaption, Acta Mesoamericana, Vol. 14, Saurwein Verlag: Markt Schwaben, 2004, pp. 71–103.

 

“La extirpación de las idolatrias y relaciones inter-etnicas: conflictos Mayas-Cristianos en una frontera colonial, 1584–1599” published in the Memorias del Primer Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya: Balances y Perspectivas de los Estudios Mayistas en la Peninsula de Yucatán, Ruth Gubler and Alfonso Barrera Vasquez (eds.), Mérida, Yucatán, México, 2002, pp. 43–61.

 

“Pre-Conquest Ah Kinob in a Colonial World: The Extirpation of Idolatry and the Survival of the Maya Priesthood in Colonial Yucatán, 1563–1697” in Ueli Hostettler and Matthew Restall (eds.) Maya Survivalism, Acta Mesoamericana Vol. 12, Markt Schwaben, Germany: Verlag Anton Saurwein, 2001, pp. 135–160.

 

“Intellectuals, Indians and the Press: The Politicization of Justo Sierra O’ Reilly’s Journalism and the Views on the Maya while in the United States,” in Strange Pilgrimages: Travel, Exile and Foreign Residency in the Creation of Latin American Identity, edited by Karen Racine and Ingrid Fey, Jaguar Series, Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2000, pp. 59–72.

 

“‘Ca numiae, lay u cal caxtlan patan lae’ El tributo colonial y la nutrición de los Mayas, 1542–1812: Un estudio sobre los efectos de la conquista y el colonialismo en los Mayas de Yucatán.” in Iglesia y sociedad en América Latina colonial, Centro Coordinador y Difusor de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1998, pp. 107–218.

 

Published Resource Guides

An Annotated Guide to the Latin American Curriculum Resource Center’s Resources on Mexico, Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies, 1994

 

International Conference Presentations

 

 “U Luumil Ku: Sacred Landscapes and Yucatec Maya Religion and Ritual in Colonial Context, 1542-1812,” one of the Keynote presentations presented before the 11^th European Maya Conference, in Malmö, Sweden, December 4-9, 2006.

 

“La ejecución del castigo: métodos y procesos en el juzgado episcopal del Provisorato de Indios de Yucatán, 1570 1770” presented in the panel entitled Religiosidad indígena e iniciativas eclesiásticas at the 52 International Congress of Americants, Seville, Spain, July 17-21, 2006.

 

“La producción, las imágenes, y las funciones de idolos coloniales yucatecos y incensarios de efigies” in the panel entitled Arqueologia Colonial, at the 52 International Congress of Americants, Seville, Spain, July 17-21, 2006.

 

  “Hablarán los glifos: La sobreviviencia y producción colonial de codices jeroglificos y su uso en la religión colonial de los mayas yucatecos, 1570–1750” presented in the panel “Religión e ideología del periodo posclásico Tardio en Mesoamerica” at the 2º Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, March 12–19, 2005, Mérida, Yucatán, México.

 

 “La producción, las imágenes, y las funciones de idolos coloniales yucatecos y incensarios de efigies” presented in the panel “Religión e ideología del periodo posclásico Tardio en Mesoamerica” at the 2º Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, March 12–19, 2005, Mérida, Yucatán, México.

 

 “Ah Otochnalob yetel Ah Chun Kaxob: Indios de Campana, Indios Idolatras, and the Colonial Re-Construction of Maya Ethnic Identity, 1590–1700” presented at the Ninth European Maya Conference, Bonn, Germany, December 9–12, 2004.

 

“In Servitio Dei: Fr. Diego de Landa, the Franciscan Order, and the Return of the Extirpation of Idolatry in the Colonial Diocese of Yucatán, 1573–1579” at the Sixth International Congress of Maya Studies, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico July 11–17, 2004.

 

 “De Descriptio Idolorum: An Ethnohistorical Examination of the Production, Imagery, and Functions of Colonial Yucatec Maya Idols and Effigy Censers, 1540–1700” to be presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada, March 31–April 3, 2004

 

“De Extirpatio Codicis Yucatanensis: The 1607 Colonial Confiscation of a Maya Sacred Book - New Interpretations on the Origins and Provenience of the Madrid Codex” presented at the 8^th European Maya Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 28–30^th, 2003.

 

“In the Path of the Rain-god Chac: Colonial Yucatec Maya Rituals Associated with Rain and Ritual Purity, 1550–1790” presented in the panel “Sacred Water in Mesoamerica,” 2003 Chacmool Maya Conference in Calgary, Canada, November 14–16, 2003.

 

“El Dios Chac y su culto: Los rituales para la petición de la lluvia y la resistencia cultural Maya durante la epoca colonial, 1545–1680,” Presented in the Symposium entitled “Agua, lluvia y sequía: Instituciones, tradiciones y acciones antiinstitucionales” at the XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, Monterrey, Nuevo León, October 1–3, 2003.

 

“La Inquisición Indiana y la extirpación de Idolatrias: El Castigo y la Reprehension en el Provisorato de Indios en Yucatan, 1570–1690” Paper in the Symposium entitled Herejia, Idolatria e Inquisición en America, “51 International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, July 14 -18, 2003.

 

“Famines, Diseases and Death: Changing Yucatec Maya Conceptions of Death and Dying, 1580–1790” presented at the 7th European Maya Conference “Jaws of the Underworld: Life, Death and Rebirth among the Ancient Maya, to be held at the British Museum, 5–10 November 2002

 

International Conferences, Moderator/Commentator

 

Moderator/Commentator: For the symposium panel entitled “Yucatán durante el período colonial” at the 2º Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, March 12–19, 2005, Mérida, Yucatán, México.

 

Co-organizer/Coordinator of the International Conference Symposium entitled “Agua, lluvia y sequía: Instituciones, tradiciones y acciones antiinstitucionales” organized in conjunction with Dr. Alejandra Garcia Quintanilla (UADY, México) scheduled for presentation at the XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, “Las instituciones en la historia de México: formas, continuidades y cambios,” Monterrey, Nuevo León, October 1–3, 2003.

 

National Conferences

 

Papers Presented

 

“‘Ah Dzib Cahob yetel lay u hunilob lae’: Village Scribes and Maya Literacy in Colonial Yucatán, 1555-1750” to be presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ethnohistory, Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 7-10, 2007.

 

 “The Resistance of the “Weaker Sex”: Yucatec Maya Female Resistance to the “Masculine” in the Spanish Conquest and Colonization in Colonial Yucatán, 1527–1650, presented at Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the 13th Annual ACMRS Conference joint with the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association, February 15-17, 2007.

 

“In the Words of the Fathers: The Franciscan Missionaries’ Masculine Message and the “Demonization” of Female Maya Sexuality in Early Colonial Yucatan, 1535-1635”, presented in the panel entitled The Ideal and the Real: Masculinity and Femininity in the Hispanic World at the Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, Jan. 24-27, 2007.

 

“By all Arts and Magic: Sexual Magic and the Manipulation of Gender & Sexuality in Colonial Yucatán, 1550-1790” presented in the panel Justitiae et Misericordia: Recent Research Advances in Inquisition Studies, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 4-7, 2007.

 

“Casualties of War: The Use of Sexual Violence, Rape, and Genital Mutilation in the Final Conquest of Yucatán, 1539-1545” presented in the panel Violence and Sexuality at the 2006 Annual Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Willamsburg, Va, November 1-5, 2006.

 

“The Power of the Plume: Yucatec Maya Scribes and the Continued Hegemony of the Maya Elite in Colonial Yucatán, 1550-1750” presented in the panel Mesoamerican Scribes & Scribal Art, at the 2006 Annual Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Willamsburg, Va, November 1-5, 2006.

 

“Maya Scribes and Colonial Literacy in Colonial Yucatán” At Tulane’s Maya Weekend in honor of Dr. Victoria R. Bricker, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans. 

      

 “Ah Mak Ikob, Maya Curanderos, and the Mestizaje of Medicine:The Medicinal Practices of the Yucatec Maya and Their Influences on Colonial Medicine in Yucatán, 1570-1780” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum 24^th Annual Maya Weekend, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

 “Colonial Tribute and Maya Nutrition: A Study in the Impact of Conquest and Colonization on Maya Diet and Nutrition,” presented at the 11th Annual ACMRS Conference, “Feast, Famine, and Fasting: Food and Material, Consumption in Medieval and Renaissance Culture,” 17 - 19 February 2005, Tempe, Arizona, February 2005.

 

“Changing Concepts of Colonial Yucatec Maya Ethnicity” at the Gulf Coast Consortium of Colonial Latinamericanists Conference, New Orleans, Lousiana, February, 16–18, 2005.

 

“In Servitio Dei: Fray Diego de Landa, the Franciscan Order, and the Return of the Extirpation of Idolatry in the Colonial Diocese of Yucatán, 1573–1579,”presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 7–9, 2005.

 

“Tecececiguata—The Tabascan Pleasure Women: Forced Female Indigenous Concubinage & Prostitution in the Conquest of Yucatán, 1526–1550” presented at the American Society of Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Chicago, October 28–31, 2004.

 

“The Sins of the Fathers: Franciscan Missionaries and the Sexual Conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545–1745” in the panel “Male Sexualities in Early Latin America,” at the American Society of Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Riverside, California, November 4–7, 2003.

 

“Ah Mak Ikob, Curanderos, and the Mestizaje of Medicine: The Medicinal Practices of the Yucatec Maya and their Influence on Colonial Medicine in Yucatán, 1600–1780” presented at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Conference, in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2002.

 

“Indios Centinelas y Flecheros: The Role of Yucatec Maya Militias and Coastal Guards in the War Against Piracy in Colonial Yucatan, 1580–1700” presented at the panel entitled “Useful Accommodations or Necessary Alliances?” at the American Society of Ethnohistory, Quebec City, October 16–21, 2002.

 

Sessions Chaired or Organized

 

Co-organizer (with Dr. Servando Hinojosa-UT-Panam) for the proposed panel entitled “Continuities and Changes in Mesoamerican Medicinal Practices” presented at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Conference, in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2002.

 

Chair for the panel entitled “Nahua-Christian Contacts” organized by Dr. Louise Burkhardt, SUNY-Albany at the American Society of Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Quebec City, October 16–21, 2002.

 

Discussant for the panel entitled “Linguistic Encounters in the Colonial Order: Three Zapotec Case Studies” organized by Dr. David Tavarez, Bard College at the American Society of Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Quebec City, October 16–21, 2002.

 

Co-organizer (with Bret Blosser) for the panel entitled “Useful Accommodations or Necessary Alliances?: Native Collaborations and their Role in the Extension of Spanish Colonial Power” presented at the American Society of Ethnohistory Conference, Quebec City, October 16–21, 2002.

 

Courses Taught

 

Missouri State University

 

Undergraduate Courses (2002-Present)

IDS 110: Introduction to University Life

HST 101: Western Civilization I

HST 103: Honors: World Civilizations I: to 1600

HST 121: U.S. History to 1877

HST 210: Writing II: Historical Inquiry

HST 350: Latin American Civilization

HST 397: History of Pre-Columbian México

HST 492: Senior Seminar: Comparative Colonialism: European Empires in the Americas, 1492-1800

 

Graduate Courses (2002-Present)

HST 587: History of Mexico

HST 597: History of Piracy in the Americas

HST 597: History of the Inquisition

HST 660: Graduate Proseminar: Mesoamerican Ethnohistory

HST 660: Graduate Proseminar: Conquest & Colonization in Latin America

HST 670: Graduate Seminar: The Inquisition in Spain & Spanish America

HST 696: Graduate Methods Course: Spanish Colonial Paleography

HST 696: Graduate Methods Course: Classical Nahuatl Documentation

HST 696: Graduate Methods Course: Classical Yucatec Maya

 

 

Awards & Grants

 

Awards & Fellowships Received

 

College of Humanities and Public Affairs Service Award, Missouri State University, 2005

 

College of Humanities and Public Affairs Grant Writing Award, Southwest Missouri State University, 2005

 

University Faculty Summer Fellowship Award, Southwest Missouri State University, 2005

 

College of Humanities and Public Affairs Research Award, Southwest Missouri State University, 2004

 

College of Humanities and Public Affairs Teaching Award, Southwest Missouri State

University, 2003

 

George Green Shakelford History Essay Prize, Virginia Polytechnic & State University: Essay Title “The Historical Effects of the Shipwreck of Jerónimo de Aguilar and Gonzalo de Guerrero on the History of Yucatán,” 1991

 

Grants

 

CHPA Research Incentives Grant ($10,000) for microfilm for research project, 2007

CHPA Research Incentives Grant ($3,900) funding of Inquisition Studies Conference

CHPA Research Incentives Grant ($2,600) with Dr. Mahua Barari for Title VI Area Studies Research & Grant Writing

International Travel Grant ($1,000) for Research Travel to Malmö, Sweden, 2006

Missouri State University Faculty Research Grant ($7,126) for Research Project, 2006

Spanish Ministry of Culture: Research Grant for Inquisition Studies (10,000 euros), 2006

International Travel Grant ($1,000) for Research Travel to Villahermosa Mexico, 2004

SMSU University Research Grant ($6,271) for Research Project entitled “Yucatec Maya Religious Texts and Clandestine Ritual Knowledge in Colonial Yucatan,” 2003

International Travel Grant ($1,000) For Research Travel to London, England, Southwest Missouri State University (International Education Committee Grant), 2002

Faculty Development Grant for Historical Research in Spain ($7,000), Summer 2000.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant for Study in México, 1996

France V. Scholes Fellowship in Colonial Latin American History, Tulane University, 1994-1997

 

Professional Academic Service

 

University Committees, Missouri State University

 

Member, University Task Force on International Programs (2004–present); Member, University Sub-Committee on Latin America (2004–present); Member, International Education Committee (2004-present); Member, Graduate College Scholarship Committee (2006-present); Chair, International Area Studies Committee (2006-present); Chair/Coordinator, Latin American Studies Committee (2003–present); Member, College of Humanities and Public Affairs Grant Committee (2003–2005); Member, Native American Studies Committee (2003–2005); Director/Coordinator, Proposed Cuban Studies Program (2004); Coordinator, Design of Latin American & Caribbean Studies Minor (2003); Faculty Member, Latin American Studies Committee (2002)

 

Organization of Regional Conferences

Mid-America Conference on History: Member of Program Committee (2003–2004); Assistant Coordinator (2003–2004)

History Day and History Bowl

History Day: Director Missouri Region 7 (2003–2006); Assistant Director (with Dr. George Hummasti) (2002)

History Bowl: Judge for History Bowl Competitions (2002–present)

 

Service to the wider Academic Community

2007     Judge of Tibesar Prize Committee for Annual Best Article in The Americas

        (2006–2007)

2004        Judge of American Society of Ethnohistory, Annual Best Book Award        

                (2003–2004)

2004-Present       Member of Editorial Board, Ketzalcalli, Academic Journal of

                            Mesoamerican Studies

2004-Present       Member—Program Committee—Gulf Coast Consortium of Latin American Colonialists

2002-Present       Member/Reviewer—WAYEB: European Association of Mayanists

1998-Present       Member of the Editorial Board, Saastun: Journal of Maya Studies

2004-Present       University of Nebraska Press

2004-Present       Longman Publishers

2004-Present       Manuscript/Article reviewer for Journal of Ethnohistory, Ancient Mesoamerica, Estudios de Cultura Maya

 

Departmental Service

 

Member, World Civilization/World History Curriculum Committee (2003–2004); History Department Contact for the 2002 United Way Campaign (2002); Assistant Professor Representative to History Department Personnel Committee (2003-2006); Member, Ad Hoc History Committee on the Education Program (2002); Undergraduate Education Curriculum Committee (2005-Present); Editor of History Department Newsletter (2003-2005); Member of four Academic Search Committees (2002-present); Co-Chair of Academic Search Committee for a Eastern European Historian (2006), Chair of Academic Search Committee for a Islamic Middle Eastern Historian (2007).

 

Community Service: Springfield, Missouri

Spanish Language Translator/Interpreter (Municipal/Green County, MO), 2002–present

Member, Sister Cities Association (Translator for delegation from Tlaquepaque, México), 2003–present

Vice-President of Board of Directors, Kay Pointe Development, 2003–2004

 

Professional Memberships

American Historical Association (AHA)   

American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE)

Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)             

American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA)

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)                     

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Phi Alpha Theta                                                                      

Academy of American Franciscan History (AAFH)

Centro de Estudios Mayas (Investigador Afiliado)          

Instituto de Cultura Maya (Investigador/Profesor Afiliado).

 

Languages

Spanish

German

Ecclesiastical Latin

Colonial Yucatec Maya (reading knowledge)

Modern Yucatec Maya (proficient speaking ability)

Ancient Maya Hieroglyphs (reading ability)

Colonial Nahuatl (reading ability)

Modern Nahuatl [Eastern Huastecan Dialect] (limited speaking ability)