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JOHN F. CHUCHIAK IV
[1969- ]
Ph.D., Tulane University (2000)
M.A., Tulane University (1994)
B.A., Virginia Polytechnic & State
University (1992)
John F. Chuchiak IV was born in Minneapolis,
Minnesota on October 13, 1969. Having spent his
formative years in Eastern Ohio, he attended
high school in Wheeling, West Virginia, and
graduated with honors from
Linsly
Institute, the oldest
private preparatory
school west of the Alleghenies
(founded 1814). He went on to
study History and Chemistry at Virginia
Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg
Virginia, where he received a Bachelor's degree
in 1992. Entering the Graduate School of Tulane
University in 1992, he received his M.A. degree
in Latin American History/Latin American Studies
in May 1994. From 1994 until 1998 he held the
prestigious France V. Scholes Fellowship of
Colonial Latin American History at Tulane
University.
During the summers of 1992-1996 he conducted
historical and archival research at the National
Archives of Mexico (Archivo General de la
Nación) and in the Archive of the Indies in
Seville, Spain (Archivo General de las Indias)
with the aid of Tinker and Mellon Summer
Research Grants and several France V. Scholes
Grants for the study of Colonial Latin American
History. In 1997, John received the coveted
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Grant for
further historical research in Mexico. While in
México, he served as a visiting scholar and
researcher at the Centro de Estudios Mayas
at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
as well as an affiliated researcher at the
Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Hideo
Noguchi in Mérida, Yucatán.
Having earlier passed both his preliminary
Doctoral exams with distinction in 1996, in May
of 2000 he completed his Doctoral dissertation
entitled "The Indian Inquisition and the
Extirpation of Idolatry: The Process of
Punishment in the Provisorato de Indios in the
Colonial Diocese of Yucatán, 1569-1812."
John
Chuchiak is currently associate professor of
Colonial Latin American History in the History
Department of Missouri State
University in Springfield, Missouri. His
research specialty is in colonial Latin American
history with specific research interests in the
colonial history of México and Yucatán, and
colonial Maya ethnohistory. His articles have
appeared in Iglesia y sociedad en América
Latina Colonial, Saastun: Revista de
Cultura Maya, Swedish Missiological Themes,
Current Anthropology, the Journal of
Early Modern History, and the Journal of
Ethnohistory, and The Americas. He is
also the author of various other papers and
articles published in a number of edited volumes
and anthologies.
CURRENT ADDRESS: Department of History,
Missouri State University, 901 South
National Ave., Springfield, Missouri 65804-0089,
e-mail:
JohnChuchiak@missouristate.edu
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