Stephanie Wood, Curriculum Vitae

Residence: 2085 University Street,
Eugene, OR 97403-1541;
Residence Tel. 541-344-1839
Cellular Tel. 541-520-8125

Office Location: UO Annex, Suite 4, 876 E. 12th Avenue
Office Mailbox: Center for the Study of Women in Society,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201;
Office Tel. 541-346-5771
E-mail: swood@uoregon.edu

Associate Director and Senior Research Associate: Wired Humanities Project, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2002-present (promoted from Coordinator in spring 2004).

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Latin American History, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1988-present. Also offering courses in Women's Studies and Spanish.

Assistant Professor: Latin American History and U.S. History, Department of History, University of Maine, 1984-89 (on leave, 1988-89; then resigned tenure-track position to follow spouse to Oregon).

Teaching Associate: Latin American History and U.S. History, Department of History, UCLA, 1980-83.

Ph.D. UCLA; Latin American History, 1984. Dissertation: "Corporate Adjustments in Colonial Mexican Indian Towns: Toluca Region, 1550-1810," on the adjustments of indigenous communities to Spanish colonization, with particular attention to community land holding. Supervisor: James Lockhart.

B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz; History and Latin American Studies (double major), 1977. Senior Thesis. Supervisor: David Sweet.

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, "The Kislak Techialoyans at the Library of Congress: Digital Facsimiles with English and Spanish Translations." 2006-08. Principal Investigator, collaborating with Judith Musick and the Wired Humanities Project team.

Howard Cline Book Prize 2005, Honorable Mention, for Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003). Conference on Latin American History, Philadelphia, January 6, 2006.

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for book project, "Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico," 1996-97.

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, for archival research in Mexico, 1981-82.

Chancellor's Intern Fellowship, highest award for doctoral study at UCLA, 1979-84.

College Honors, Honors in History, Honors in Latin American Studies, Honors on the History Oral Examination, Highest Honors for the Senior Thesis; University of California, Santa Cruz, 1977.

Research Interest Group Development Grants, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2006, 2002, 2001.

Gender and ICT Award Finalist, for the "Digital Teaching Units for Gender in History," (see below, under Publications/Web Sites), Feminist Humanities and Wired Humanities Projects, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2003.

Individual Research Grants, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2000, 1999.

Teaching Fellowships, Women's Studies Department, University of Oregon, 1998-99, 1997-98.

Grant to purchase films, International Education, University of Oregon, for the purchase of Latin American films for the Instructional Media Center, 1995.

Travel Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, for travel to an international meeting, 1988.

Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Provisional Version (e-book), co-edited with James Lockhart and Lisa Sousa, Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Project, University of Oregon, 2007. <http://whp.uoregon.edu/Lockhart/index.html>

Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

De tlacuilos y escribanos: estudios sobre documentos indígenas coloniales del centro de México, co-edited with Xavier Noguez Ramírez. Toluca and Zamora, Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense and El Colegio de Michoacán, 1998.

Indian Women of Early Mexico, co-edited with Susan Schroeder and Robert Haskett. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

"Títulos Primordiales," (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) for the Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Ethnohistorical Sources, ed. Michel Oudijk and Maria Castañeda de la Paz (Austin: University of Texas Press). (Solicited & submitted.)

"History--Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica," (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) literature review for the Handbook of Latin American Studies 62, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. (Solicited & submitted.)

"Nahua Christian Soldiers in the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, Cholula Parish (Mexico)," in Indian Conquistadors: Native Militaries in the Conquest of Mesoamerica, eds. Michel Oudijk and Laura Matthew (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press). (Forthcoming.)

"Techialoyan Codices," in From Ice Age Symbols to the Internet, an Encyclopedia of Graphic Communication, 3 vols., Antonio Rodríguez-Buckingham, editor-in-chief (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Co..) (Forthcoming.)

"The Techialoyan Codices," in Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Provisional Version (e-book), co-edited with James Lockhart and Lisa Sousa, Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Project, University of Oregon, 2007. <http://whp.uoregon.edu/Lockhart/Wood.pdf> (Different from the article in From Ice Age Symbols to the Internet.)

"History--Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica," literature review (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) for the Handbook of Latin American Studies 60, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2004.

"Power Differentials in Early Mesoamerican Gender Ideology," in Repensando las Américas en los Umbrales del Siglo XXI: 51° Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (CD-Rom), Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile, 2003.

"History--Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica," literature review (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) for the Handbook of Latin American Studies 58, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2002.

"¿El otro otro? Interpretando imágenes y descripciones de españoles en los códices y textos indígenas," in Códices y Documentos sobre México: Tercer Simposio Internacional, Constanza Vega, ed., pp. 15-196. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2000. (PDF)

"History--Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica," literature review (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) for the Handbook of Latin American Studies vol. 56, pp. 75-104. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1999.

"Gender and Community Influence in Mesoamerica: Directions for Future Research," Journal de la Societe des Americanistes 84:2 (1998), pp. 243-276.

"Testaments and Títulos: Conflict and Coincidence of Cacique and Community Interests [in Colonial Mexico]," in Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Spanish America, Matthew Restall and Susan Kellogg, eds., pp. 85-111. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998. (PDF)

"La comunidad indígena del siglo diecisiete," in La historia general del Estado de México, María Teresa Jarquin Ortega, comp., vol. 3, pp. 263-291. Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de Mexico and El Colegio Mexiquense, 1998.

"El problema de la historicidad de Títulos y los códices del grupo Techialoyan," in De tlacuilos y escribanos: estudios sobre documentos indígenas coloniales del centro de México, Xavier Noguez Ramírez and Stephanie Wood, eds., pp. 167-221. Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense and El Colegio de Michoacán, 1998.

"Sexual Violation in the Conquest of the Americas," in The History of Sex and Sexuality in the United States, Merril D. Smith, ed., 9-34. New York: New York University Press, 1998. [An expanded version of the essay, "Rape as a Tool of Conquest in Early Latin America," in Human Sexuality (Annual Editions), Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing, 1993; originally published in the CSWS Review (Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon) 1992, 18-20.]

"The Social vs. Legal Context of Nahuatl Títulos," in Native Traditions in the Postconquest World, Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins, eds., pp. 201-231. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. Accessible on line from this URL: http://www.doaks.org/BONTC.html (or, for the PDF itself: http://www.doaks.org/Native/trad08.pdf).

"Matters of Life at Death: Nahuatl Testaments of Rural Women (Central Mexico), 1589-1801," and "Concluding Remarks," in Indian Women of Early Mexico, Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, eds., pp. 165-182 and 313-330. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

"The Ajusco Town Founding Document: Affinities with Documents of the Sixteenth Century," in Códices y Documentos sobre México: Segundo Simposio, v. II, Salvador Rueda Smithers, Constanza Vega Sosa, and Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, eds., pp. 333-348. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1997.

"History--Ethnohistory, Mesoamerica," literature review (in collaboration with Robert Haskett) for the Handbook of Latin American Studies vol. 54, pp. 77-100. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995.

Sixteen entries in the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.

"Rural Nahua Women under Spanish Colonization: The Late-Colonial Toluca Valley," in Mesoamerican and Chicano Art, Culture, and Identity / El arte, la cultura, y la identidad mesoamericana y chicana, Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts, Supplemental Series 6, Robert Dash, ed., pp. 78-103. Salem, OR: Willamette University, 1994.

"Pictorial Histories and Illustrated Historical Texts: Windows into Indigenous Society of Mesoamerica," in Five Hundred Years After Columbus: Proceedings of the 47th International Congress of Americanists. New Orleans: Tulane University Press, 1994.

"The Evolution of the Indian Corporation of the Toluca Region, 1550-1810," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 22 (1992), 381-407. [Originally in Spanish: "La evolución de la corporación indígena en la región del Valle de Toluca, 1550-1810," in Haciendas, pueblos y comunidades; los valles de México y Toluca entre 1530 y 1916, Manuel Miño Grijalva, ed. Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1991.]

"The Cosmic Conquest: Late-Colonial Views of the Sword and Cross in Central Mexican Títulos," Ethnohistory 38:2 (Spring 1991), 176-195.

"Adopted Saints: Christian Images in Nahua Testaments of Late Colonial Toluca," The Americas 47:3 (January 1991), 259-293.

"Gañanes y cuadrilleros formando pueblos: región de Toluca, época colonial," in Mundo rural, ciudades y población del Estado de México, Manuel Miño Grijalva, ed., pp. 91-143. Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense, Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, 1990.

"The Fundo Legal or Lands Por Razón de Pueblo: New Evidence from Central New Spain," in The Indian Community of Colonial Mexico: Fifteen Essays on Land Tenure, Corporate Organizations, Ideology and Village Politics, Arij Ouweneel and Simon Miller, eds., pp. 117-129. Amsterdam: Center for Latin American Research and Documentation, 1990. (PDF)

"La búsqueda de la categoría de pueblo: retención de tierra y autonomía de indios comunitarios en México colonial, siglo xviii," Encuentro (Guadalajara: El Colegio de Jalisco) 17 (1990), 5-36. [Originally published in English as, "The Pursuit of Pueblo Status: Land Retention and Autonomy for Community Indians in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexico," UCLA Historical Journal 1 (1980), 3-25.]

"Don Diego García de Mendoza Moctezuma: A Techialoyan Mastermind?" Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl (Mexico) 19 (1989), 245-268.

"Pedro Villafranca y Juana Gertrudis Navarrete: falsificador de títulos y su viuda (Nueva España, siglo xviii)," in Lucha por la supervivencia en América colonial, David G. Sweet and Gary B. Nash, eds., 472-485. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1987. (PDF)

The Mapas Project <http://whp.uoregon.edu/mapas/index.html> (write swood@uoregon.edu for username and password), with Judith Musick. Digitization and analysis of pictorial Mexican manuscripts. This is being built by the Wired Humanities Project with support from the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Vice President for Research at the University of Oregon. Under construction. Also, individual parts authored by S. Wood, include the following:

Digital Cahuleu (Maya Collections) <http://whp.uoregon.edu/DigitalCahuleu/>. Current project in collaboration with the Wired Humanities Project and the Feminist Humanities Project, Judith Musick, Director. Both are initiatives of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon. Under construction.

Gender in Early Mesoamerica (Data Base for Gender in History) <http://gem.uoregon.edu/> (write swood@uoregon.edu for username and password). Current project in collaboration with the Wired Humanities Project and the Feminist Humanities Project, Judith Musick, Director. Both are initiatives of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon. Under construction.

The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive <http://whp.uoregon.edu/vma_preview/>, principal scholar, with Judith Musick. This site is an online, searchable union catalog with three main divisions: institutions (archives and museums) with Mesoamerican primary materials; digitized materials available on line; and scholars' sites (to include curricular and research sites, plus scholars' biographies). Built by the Wired Humanities Project with support from the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Vice President for Research at the University of Oregon. Under construction. In addition, S. Wood has authored numerous biographies in the Scholars database as well as descriptions of many items in the Digitized Materials index. Launched in Spring 2006.

"A History of Tacos and Cigarettes," An "Ask the Experts" Answer for the "Aztecs" Webpage at Mexicolore, ed. Ian Mursell <http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/index.php?one=azt&two=ask&tab=ans&id=12>, February 2006.

La Malinche: From Whore/Traitor to Mother/Goddess (Digital Teaching Unit for Gender in History) <http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/entry/dtu.shtml> (write swood@uoregon.edu for username and password). With technical and design assistance from the staff of the Wired Humanities Project and funding from the Feminist Humanities Project, Judith Musick, Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2004.

The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Criolla to Guerrillera (Digital Teaching Unit for Gender in History)
<http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/entry/dtu.shtml> write swood@uoregon.edu for username and password). With technical and design assistance from the staff of the Wired Humanities Project and funding from the Feminist Humanities Project, Judith Musick, Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2003.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Transforming Portraits (Digital Teaching Unit for Gender in History) <http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/entry/dtu.shtml> (write swood@uoregon.edu for username and password), co-authored with Amanda Powell. With technical and design assistance from Daniel Gilfillan and the collaboration of the Director (Judith Musick) and additional staff of the Wired Humanities Project, and funding from the Feminist Humanities Project of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2002.

Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist, World Icon (Digital Teaching Unit for Gender in History) <http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/entry/dtu.shtml> (write swood@uoregon.edu for username and password). With technical and design assistance from Daniel Gilfillan and the collaboration of the Director (Judith Musick) and additional staff of the Wired Humanities Project, and funding from the Feminist Humanities Project of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 1999.

Women in Mesoamerica (Digital Teaching Unit for Gender in History) <http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/entry/dtu.shtml> (write swood@uoregon.edu for username and password). With technical and design assistance from Daniel Gilfillan and John Shin and the collaboration of the Director (Judith Musick) and staff of the Wired Humanities Project and the Feminist Humanities Project of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 1998.

Review of Conquered Conquistadors. The Lienzo de Cuauhquechollan: A Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala, by Florine G. L. Asselbergs, appearing in Mesoamérica, 49 (July 2007), 179-80. (Forthcoming).

Review of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico, by Camila Townsend, appearing in A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, 4:3 (Spring 2007), 219–33. <Wood.pdf>.

Review of Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala, eds. Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano, and Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, appearing in the The Americas 63:3 (January 2007), 474-76.

Review of Roots of Identity: Language & Literacy in Mexico, by Linda King, appearing in the Americas 54:3 (January 1998), 463-464.

Book note on Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexico, by William B. Taylor, appearing in Religious Studies Review 23:3 (July 1997), 315.

Review of Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence, by Enrique Florescano, appearing in The Historian 58:3 (Spring 1996), 640-641.

Review of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, volume 50 (1991), edited by Dolores Moyano Martin, appearing in Ethnohistory 39:4 (Fall 1992), 543-545.

Review of Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana, 1498-1820, by Neil L. Whitehead, appearing in the Hispanic American Historical Review 70:3 (August 1990), 498-499.

Review of Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power and Colonial Society, 1520-1800, by Serge Gruzinski, appearing in The Americas 47:1 (July 1990), 123-125.

Review of Trade, Tribute, and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico, by Ross Hassig, appearing in the Business History Review (Spring 1987), 172-173.

"Nahuas' Reshaping of the European Concepts of 'Mapas' and 'Títulos' in New Spain," 52nd International Congress of Americanistas, Seville, Spain, 2006. (Summarized orally in Spanish.)

"An Odd Baskett of ODDs: The Mapas Project." Digital Humanities annual meeting, Paris, France, 2006.

"The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive: Exploring Expansion Possibilities, Automated Harvesting, and Migration to MySQL." Poster Session, Digital Humanities annual meeting, Paris, France, 2006.

"The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive: An Electronic Finding Tool for Primary and Secondary Sources," Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials annual meeting, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2006.

"The Online Nahuatl Dictionary: A Model for Interdisciplinary Multicultural Collaboration," with Judith Musick, Association for Computing in the Humanities annual meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2005.

"Pedagogical Uses for the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive," with Judith Musick, MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) International Conference, Costa Mesa, California, 2004.

"Creating a Distance Research Environment (DRE) for the Mapas Project," with Judith Musick, Association for Computing in the Humanities, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2004.

"Medieval Women Online: New Digital Materials for Research & Teaching," Modern Language Association annual meeting, San Diego, California, 2003.

"The Founding Couple in Early Mesoamerican Gender Ideology," 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, 2003.

"The Techialoyan Codices and Aztec Revivalism in the Late-Seventeenth Century," Conference in honor of James Lockhart, UCLA, Los Angeles, 2002.

"A Guadalupan Sermon in Nahuatl from the Colonial Period," American Catholic Historical Association, Portland (Oregon), 2002.

"Mexican Female Icons: Negotiated Biographies, Strengthening and Contesting Patriarchy," American Historical Association, San Francisco, 2002.

"Frida and Coyolxauhqui: Teaching Gender in Mexican History with the Net," American Historical Association, Boston, 2001.

"Digitizing Women's History: The Collaborative Efforts of the Feminist Humanities Project," Digital Resources for the Humanities, Sheffield (England), 2000. With Judith Musick and Daniel Gilfillan.

"¿El otro otro? Interpretando imágenes de españoles en los códices y textos indígenas." Tercer Simposio Internacional: Códices y Documentos sobre México, Puebla (Mexico), 1996.

"The Ajusco Town Founding Document: Affinities with Documents of the Sixteenth Century," Segundo Simposio Internacional: Códices y Documentos sobre Mexico, Taxco (Mexico), 1994. (Presentation actually given in Spanish.)

"Caciques' Influence over Community History: Negotiated Identities in the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, of the Tlaxcalan Tradition," American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1994.

"A Critique of Conquest: The Primordial Title of Ajusco, Central New Spain," American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 1992.

"An Uncomfortable Fit: Nahuatl Títulos in a Spanish Legal Context," Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, "Native Traditions in the Postconquest World" Symposium, Washington, D.C., 1992.

"The Historicity of Títulos and Techialoyan Codices," 47th International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, 1991.

"Nahua Views of Christianization and Saint Worship," Second Conference on Hispanic Cultures of the Pacific Coast of the Americas, Eugene, 1991.

"The Cosmic Conquest: Late-Colonial Views of the Sword and Cross in Toluca Valley Títulos," 8th Meeting of Mexican and North American Historians, San Diego, 1990. (An expanded version of the study presented in The Netherlands.)

"Indigenous Women, Colonization, and Culture Change: Glimpses of Daily Life in Nahua Testaments," American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Portland, 1989.

"Adopted Saints: Christian Images in Nahua Testaments of Late Colonial Toluca," American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, 1988.

"Formando pueblos: comunidades de trabajadores de haciendas de labor y minas, valle de Toluca y alrededores, época colonial," Primer Coloquio sobre el Estado de Mexico: Historia y Mundo Rural, Ciudades y Demografía, Toluca (Mexico), 1988.

"Accepting the Sword and Cross? Views of Spanish Conquest in Indian Títulos of Colonial Mexico," 46th International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, 1988.

"The Fundo Legal or Lands Por Razón de Pueblo: New Evidence from Central New Spain," 46th International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, 1988. (An expanded version of the study presented in Washington, D.C., in 1987.)

"Comparing Notes: Techialoyan Texts and Other Colonial Nahuatl Writings," Northeast Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, SUNY-Albany, Albany (New York), 1988. Also presented in 1987 at the 5th International Symposium of the Latin American Indian Literatures Association, Cornell University, Ithaca (New York).

"The Fundo Legal or Indian Town Site of Central New Spain: New Evidence from the Toluca Valley," American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 1987.

"The Evolution of the Indian Corporation of the Toluca Region, 1550-1810," 7th Meeting of Mexican and North American Historians, Oaxaca (Mexico), 1985.

"Nahuatl Primordial Titles: Local Production or Regional Manufacture?" American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans, 1984.

"Fact or Fabrication? Nahuatl and Spanish-Language Títulos from the Valley of Toluca," Aztec Tertulia (Southern California Symposium), Los Angeles, 1984.

"Historical Matter in the Títulos of Capulhuac," American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Diego, 1983.

"Nahuatl and Spanish Títulos from Indian Towns in the Valley of Toluca," Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Park City (Utah), 1983.

"Soldaderas: Female Mexican Revolutionary Figures, Larger than Life," a Road Scholars presentation sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of the Arts and Culture Festival, Blue Mountain Community College (Pendleton, Oregon), April 16, 2007. [Earlier presentations by invitation of the Central Library and Hollywood Library (Portland, Oregon), both on March 18, 2007.]

"Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist, World Icon," a Road Scholars presentation sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of Sisters Library (Oregon), March 10, 2007. [Earlier presentations by invitation of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute/University of Oregon Central Oregon, April 28, 2006; Umpqua Community College (Roseburg, Oregon), April 12, 2005; the Association for Lifelong Learning (Corvallis, Oregon), February 9, 2005; the Yamhill Arts Council (Amity, Oregon), October 18, 2004; the OASIS retirement group (Eugene, Oregon), June 2, 2004; the Eugene Public Library (Eugene, Oregon), May 7, 2004; the Deschutes Public Library (Bend, Oregon), September 28, 2003; the Lake Oswego Library (Portland, Oregon), May 14, 2003; the Cedar Mill Community Library (Portland, Oregon), May 15, 2003; and, the Hillsboro Library (Portland, Oregon), January 26, 2003.]

"The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Creole Symbol to Guerrilla Fighter," a Road Scholars presentation sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of the Deschutes Public Library (Bend, Oregon), December 9, 2006. [Earlier presentations by invitation of the River Road Parks District (Eugene, Oregon), January 25, 2005, and the Learning in Retirement Group (Eugene, Oregon), February 9, 2004.]

"La Malinche: From Traitor/Whore to Mother/Goddess," a Road Scholars presentation sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of by invitation of the Deschutes Public Library (Bend, Oregon), April 8, 2006. [Earlier presentations by invitation of the Art Department, Chemeketa Community College (Salem, Oregon), October 19, 2005, and as a Teaching & Tea Presentation, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, February 12, 2004.]

"Frida Kahlo: International Icon," radio interview at KOPT 1600 AM, Eugene, Oregon, March 28, 2006.

"The Virgin of Guadalupe," radio interview at KOPT 1600 AM, Eugene, Oregon, December 13, 2005.

"El género y el espacio virtual. ¿Cómo ensenar y estudiar la historia de las mujeres mexicanas usando fuentes digitales?" Instituto Mora, Mexico City, October 24, 2005.

"Emphasizing Militancy in Mexican Female Icons," part of a series, "International Perspectives on Women, Gender, and Sexuality," University of Oregon, Eugene, October 12, 2005.

"El Proyecto Mapas y el Archivo Virtual Mesoamericano: Dos recursos para avanzar los estudios mesoamericanos," Universidad de las Americas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, August 22, 2005.

"Translating Nahuatl," Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico, July 25, 2005.

"The Virtual Mesoamerican Archive," Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute (of Harvard University), Washington, D.C., May 20, 2005.

"The Mapas Project," Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, November 5, 2004.

"Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico" (book highlights), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18, 2004.

"Frida Kahlo: Artista mexicana, ícono mundial," a Road Scholars presentation in Spanish sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, by invitation of Womenspace Latina Support Group (Eugene, Oregon), December 2, 2004.

"Mesoamerican Treasures: The Kislak Techialoyan from Tolcayuca and the Mapas Project," Jay I. Kislak Mesoamerican Museum, Miami Lakes, Florida, May 13, 2004.

"Now What? Nahuatl! Introduction to the Aztec Language," multi-media presentations for Foreign Language and International Studies Day, University of Oregon, April 30, 2004. (Earlier presentations also: April 25, 2003, April 27, 2001, April 28, 2000, April 30, 1999, and May 1, 1998.)

"El Archivo Virtual Mesoamericano: poniendo fuentes históricas al acceso público," Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico, May 9, 2003.

"The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Criolla to Guerrillera," Teaching and Tea Presentation, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, January 16, 2003.

"El género en los estudios mesoamericanos," Museo Felguérez, Zacatecas, Mexico, November 21, 2002.

"El papel de la mujer en la construcción de los pueblos mesoamericanos," Palacio Legislativo del Estado de Tlaxcala, Mexico, November 15, 2002.

"Títulos, Techialoyans, and Mexican Ethnohistory," invited presentation for the graduate seminar in Colonial Latin American Literature, University of California, Berkeley, February 2002.

"Dating the Bodleian Nahuatl Sermon," invited presentation for the faculty reading group on Colonial Latin America, University of California, Berkeley, February 2002.

"Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist, World Icon," four presentations for Women's History Day, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, March 9, 2001.

"Mexico's Founding Mothers and Fathers: Early Mesoamerican Gender Complementarity?" grant report, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, March 7, 2001.

"Using the Gender in History Database to Teach Aztec Culture," for the "Teaching and Tea" pedagogical seminars for university and high school faculty, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, November 9, 2000.

"Women of Mesoamerica: Gender Complimentarity and Hierarchy," for the "Teaching and Tea" pedagogical seminars for university and high school faculty, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, December 10, 1998.

"Gender Constructs in Town Guardianship, Colonial Mesoamerica," for Reclaiming the Past, Research Interest Group of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, May 29, 1998.

"Intruders or Allies? Portrayals of Spaniards in Indigenous Records of Colonial Mexico," Hispanic Division, Library of Congress, May 10, 1995.

"Indigenous Views of the Conquest of Mexico," Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, April 21, 1993.

"Aztec Women under Spanish Colonization," Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, March 29, 1993.

"'We No Longer Accept the Discover Card:' Rethinking Columbus [through Political Cartoons]," Freshman Honor Society, University of Oregon, November 18, 1992.

"The Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco: Indigenous Allies of the Spanish Remember the Conquest," Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, November 13, 1992.

"Aztec, Maya, and Inca Views of the Spanish Invasion," for the Latin American and Caribbean Student Organization, University of Oregon, Eugene, October 13, 1992.

"Columbus: The Legacy," Chemawa Indian School, International Indigenous Peoples' Day Symposium, Salem, October 12, 1992. (Sharing the podium with Father Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua.)

"Recognizing Rape in the Conquest of Latin America," Part of a Roundtable Discussion, Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Corvallis, August 14, 1992.

"Uncomfortably Close Encounters: Sexual Assault in the Conquest of Latin America," Miracle Theater Group, Portland, September 17; Central America Project, Oregon State University, Corvallis, May 18; Department of History, Columbian Quincentenary Conference, University of Oregon, April 23, 1992.

"Perspectivas indígenas sobre la evangelación y la adoración de los santos: época colonial, Valle de Toluca," invited public lecture, El Colegio Mexiquense, Toluca, Mexico, August 2, 1992.

"Nuevas consideraciones sobre los códices 'Techialoyan,'" Convocation Keynote Talk, Escuela Nacional de Antropología, Mexico, July, 1991.

"Indigenous Views of the Conquest of Mexico," Department of History, Portland State University, February 26, 1990.

"Bad Deeds? Unorthodox Property Titles and the Struggle for Land in Colonial Mexico," Department of History, University of Oregon, February 2, 1989.

"Unorthodox Land Titles of Colonial Mexican Indian Towns," Department of History, University of California, Riverside, February 5, 1988.

"U.S. Covert Operations: Guatemala's 'Operation Success'," Convocation Panel, University of Oregon, September, 1988.

"Brazil's Multi-Cultural Heritage," presentation for a panel entitled, "Brazil Today: A Look at the Forces Shaping It," for the International Week Forum, Focus on Brazil, University of Maine, April 15, 1987.

"An Overview of Nicaraguan Cultural and Social History," lecture presented on behalf of the Bucksport Area Peace Action Committee, Orland, Maine, February 2, 1987.

"Debt, Drugs, and Democracy: What's Behind the News on Mexico," presentation for a panel entitled, "¿Qué Pasa? What's Happening in Latin America?" at the Maine Center for the Arts, November 11, 1986.

"Crisis in Central America: An Historical Perspective," lecture presented on behalf of the Aroostook Peace Action Coalition, Caribou, Maine, May 9, 1986.

"Background on Central America," lecture presented on behalf of the Concerned Citizens of Southern Aroostook, Houlton, Maine, February 28, 1986.

"From Huipil to Silk Petticoat: Researching Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts of Mexico," Women in the Curriculum, University of Maine, December 3, 1985.

"The Historical Roots of Turmoil in Central America," Third World Forum, University of Maine, April 15, 1985.

"Army Wives and Native American Women: Interaction on the Frontier," Women's History Week Presentation, University of Maine, March 5, 1985.

"Central America," Respondent to the News of the World Forum, University of Maine, February 11, 1985.

"Indian Town Formation in the Toluca Valley, Colonial Period," Mesoamerican Network (Southern California Symposium), Hermosa Beach, 1983.

Introduction to and discussion leader for the films, Discovering Dominga and Artist of Resistance, University of Oregon, April 19, 2007.

Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, Senorita Extraviada, University of Oregon, April 12, 2007.

Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark, University of Oregon, April 5, 2007.

Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas, University of Oregon, May 4, 2005.

Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, The Unapologetic Life of Margaret Randall, University of Oregon, April 20, 2005.

Introduction to and discussion leader for the film, Under Fire, University of Oregon, April 6, 2005.

Introduction to and discussion leader for film, 11'09"01: September 11, in "The Other September 11th Film Series," University of Oregon, Eugene, October 9, 2003.

Introduction to and discussion leader for film, Death and the Maiden, in "The Other September 11th Film Series," University of Oregon, Eugene, October 30, 2003.

Introduction to the European premiere of The Sixth Sun: Maya Uprising in Chiapas, University of Copenhagen, May 21, 1997.

Introduction to The Last Zapatista, for Latin American history and Latin American culture classes, Oregon State University, February 21, 1996.

Introduction to the East Coast premiere of The Last Zapatista, Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, September 5, 1995.

Introduction to the film, Lizzie: An Amazon Adventure, for International Week Forum, Focus on Brazil, University of Maine, April 17, 1987.

Discussion leader for film, Vacation Nicaragua, for the Latin American Film Festival, Eastern Maine Campaign for Peace in Central America, Bangor, April 12, 1987.

Discussion leader for film, Castro's Challenge, for the Latin American Film Festival, Eastern Maine Campaign for Peace in Central America, Bangor, April 8, 1987.

Introduction to and discussion leader for film, The Darklight of Dawn, on Guatemala, for the Latin American Film Festival, Eastern Maine Campaign for Peace in Central America, Bangor, April 6, 1987.

Discussion leader for film, The Yankee Years, about U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, for the Eastern Maine Campaign for Peace in Central America, Bangor, March 11, 1987.

Discussion leader for films, Waiting for the Invasion and Americas in Transition, on Nicaragua and Latin America in the twentieth century, for the Peace and Justice Film Series, University of Maine, February 5, 1987.

Discussion leader for film, Testimonio: Así Avanzamos, on Nicaragua, for the Maine Peace Action Committee, December 4, 1986.

Discussion leader for films, In the Name of Democracy and Road to Liberty, on El Salvador, Foreign Film Series, University of Maine, March 6, 1986.

Historical introduction to the film El Salvador: Another Vietnam, and discussion leader, Peace Action Film Series, University of Maine, February 14, 1985.

Consultant, video documentary, "Sleeping Kings" (series), segments on Latin American revolutionaries, Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Emiliano Zapata. Susan Lloyd, Producer and Director, in progress.

Consultant, video documentary, "The Revolutionary Journey of Photographer Tina Modotti," (about her photographs of Mexico and her Cuban associations). Susan Lloyd, Producer and Director, in progress.

Director of Research for Meridian Productions, working with Director/Producer Saul Landau on the video documentary, The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas, Fall 1995. Aired on PBS in 1996. (I also introduced the European premiere and led the discussion at the University of Copenhagen, May 27, 1997.)

Consultant, video documentary, The Last Zapatista. Susan Lloyd, Producer and Director, 1995. Aired on PBS in 1996. (I also introduced the premiere showing and led the discussion at the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, September 29, 1995.)

Consultant, Indigenous Versions of the Conquest of Mexico, for the video documentary, Columbus and the Age of Discovery, WGBH-TV Boston, Rachel Field, Producer, 1989. Aired on PBS in 1991.

Co-Organizer, with other Latin American Studies faculty, of the 2006 Latin American Film Festival
"Dreams and Nightmares: Latin America in the 21st Century," University of Oregon, April 20-June 1, 2006.

Organizer, "Central America and the Cold War: A Film Series," University of Oregon, Spring 2005.

Organizer, "The Other September 11th Film Series," (films about Chile, 9/11/73), University of Oregon, Fall 2003.

Consultant, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress, identification of a colonial Nahuatl manuscript, 2007.

Consultant, Arader Galleries (New York), report on colonial Mexican manuscripts, 2006.

Consultant, Christie's Auction House (New York), authentification of colonial Mexican manuscripts, 1998-99.

Consultant, H. P. Kraus Rare Books and Manuscripts (New York), identification and evaluation of colonial Mexican manuscripts and rare books, 1999, 1986.

Consultant, Colonial Mexican Manuscripts in Nahuatl at the Bancroft Library (Berkeley), National Education Television, American Film Foundation, Terry Saunders, Producer, 1986.

Commentator, "Genocide in the Americas" Panel, Witnessing Genocide: Representation and Responsiblity Conference, University of Oregon, April 29, 2007.

Commentator,"Transcending Narratives: Contestation and Accomodation in Colonial Mesoamerican Texts," Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 18, 2006.

Commentator, "Caras y máscaras del México étnico: La participación indígena en las formaciones del Estado Mexicano," XXVII Coloquio de Antropología e Historia Regionales, El Colegio de Michoacán, October 26-28, 2005.

Co-Organizer, with other Latin American Studies faculty, of the symposium, "Smoldering Ashes: Revisiting the Legacy of the Cold War in Central America," University of Oregon, May 5-7, 2005.

Co-Organizer, with other Latin American Studies faculty, of the symposium, "Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America: 30 Years after September 11th," University of Oregon, Fall 2003.

Commentator, "Cacicas and Capullanas in the Colonial Andes" panel, American Historical Association, Boston, January 5, 2001.

Commentator, "Mesoamerican Histories" Roundtable, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., 1995.

Panel organizer, annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Stanford University, 1992.

Panel organizer (two-day panel), 47th International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, 1991.

Commentator, Nahuatl Historical Literatures Panel, 5th International Symposium of the Latin American Indian Literatures Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1987.

Referee for book by Mexican historian Enrique Florescano, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Referee for articles, Historia Mexicana, 2006; Hispanic American Historical Review, 2003; Relaciones (Mexico), 2003; Colonial Latin American History Review, 1999; Journal of Women's History, 1998-1999.

Referee for grant applications, Foundation for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, 2003; Concejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico), 2001; National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987-89.

Conference Organizer (in conjunction with European organizer Hanns Prem and Mexican organizer Constanza Vega) and chair of two half-day sessions of the international meeting, "Tercer Simposio de Códices y Documentos," Puebla, Mexico, August 18-23, 1996.

Lecturer, National Endowment for the Humanities, at two 1989 and one 1992 Summer Institutes for Faculty, "Encounter of Cultures: European and Indigenous Versions of Conquest," Mexico City; "Recreating the New World Contact: Indigenous Languages and Literatures of Latin America--Problems of Translation," Austin; and, "European Exploration: Contacts with the Cultural Other, 1400-1650," Part 4, "Europeans and the Americas--The Aztecs," Salem.

Prize Judge: Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1999; Judith Lee Ridge Prize, Western Association of Women Historians, 1990, 1991.

Advanced Text Encoding Initiative Workshop, with Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. November 2004.

Text Encoding Initiative Workshop, with Susan Schreibman. Gothenburg University, Sweden, June 2004.

Study Abroad (NCSA London), London-Based NGOs that Reach into Latin America, S02

John Lopez, International Studies and Architecture, early colonial adjustments to the layout of Mexico City, F05.

Alvaro Mardones Llanos, International Studies, "Cecilia Bolocco and the Construction of the Chilean Identity," Su05.

Kathleen Burk, Folklore, "Altered Altars: Creating An Exhibition Out Of A Cultural Event [Mexican Day of the Dead in Oregon]," W03.

Maria Dolores Lizarzaburu, "The Impact of Alternative Trade Organizations on the Development of Rural Indigenous Artisan Women in Ecuador," F01.

Francisco Murphy, Sociology, with a focus on early twentieth-century labor in Mexico, F00.

Jill Nicola, International Studies, "Saltando La Barda/Jumping the Fence: Mexican Immigration Stories," S01. (Director: Lynn Stephen.)

Yuna Morita, International Studies, "Longing for Justice: The Voice from the Chiapas Highlands, Non-Violent 'Las Abejas" and Torn Zapatistas (Chiapas, Mexico)," S00.

Chelsea Perkins, International Studies, Honors Thesis, "Border Lines: NAFTA's Effects on Women Along the U.S./Mexico Border," S00.

John Adamson, International Studies, "International Human Rights Observation: The Situation in Mexico," S99.

Joy Marcotte, International Studies, Honors Thesis, "From Marches to M-16s: The Fight for Women's Rights in Mexico in the Past Two Decades," S98.

Courtney Stern, International Studies, "Latin American Women's Textile Cooperatives: Economic Survival, Cultural Preservation and Gender Issues," S98.

Scott Currie, International Studies, "The Social Conscience of Latin American Film," S98.

Katelyn Oldham, Honors College and History Thesis, "Dialogue and Mexicanidad in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo [Mexico]," F96. (Director: Linda Kintz.)

Jackie Wallace, International Studies, "Sandinista Health Care in Nicaragua," F96.

Mary Ripley, International Studies Honors Thesis, "A Study of Mapuche Cultural Change Exemplified in the Role of the Shaman [Chile]," S96.

Marty I. Schmith, International Studies Honors Thesis, "Mobilization of Women within the Socialist Revolutionary Process: Nicaraguan and Cuban Women Demonstrate Progress Toward Emancipation," S96.

Carrie Miller, International Studies, "Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Struggle in the Twentieth Century," S96.

Cherstin Lyon, History Honors Thesis, "The Art of Survival: Women and the Feminine Voice of Protest in Chile," F95.

Brandy Blackman, International Studies Honors Thesis, "Revolution and Equality: How Nicaraguan Women's Lives Have Changed Since 1979," SU95.

Karleen A. Scharf, International Studies, "The Women of Central America: Their Past Directs Them into the Future," SU93.

Elizabeth Peterman, International Studies, "Women's Participation in Revolution in Cuba and Nicaragua," S92.

Tanya Heikkila, International Studies Honors Thesis, "Women's Popular Political Organization in Latin American Revolutionary Movements: The Cases of Cuba, Nicaragua, and El Salvador," W92. (Director: Galen Martin).

Denise Wallace, International Studies, "Working Women in Mexico: The Struggles Faced by Poverty," W92. (Co-directed with Robert Haskett).

Judith Osborn, History Honors Thesis, "The Castas Paintings of Mexico: Identities in Color," S99. (Director: Carlos Aguirre.)

James Curtis, History Honors Thesis, "Tupi-Guarani Cosmology and the Formation of Sedentary Society," S99. (Director: Robert Haskett.)

Magan Crane, International Studies Honors Thesis, "Conquest, Cult, and Nationalism: A Discussion of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexican Cultural History," S94.

Janel Nockelby, Honors College, "Nahua Christianity: The Religious Education of Nahuas and Mendicant Clergy in Sixteenth Century Mexico," W93. (Director: Robert Haskett.)

Linea Rein, International Studies, "The 150-Year Struggle of Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants in the United States," W98.

Jonathon Patrick Poliquin, International Studies, "The Benefits of Bilingualism and Overcoming Discrimination: A Comparison of the Situations of the French Speakers of Canada and the Spanish-Speakers of the U.S.," S96 (Director: Barbara Altmann, Romance Languages, who guided the French component).

International Studies students: Amy Kott, Jocelyn Atkins, Sarah Marble, Kalub Jarosh, Francesco Bilello, Hollee Keegan.

Latin American Studies Committee, 1991-present. (Executive Committee, 1991-94, 2002-present).

Office of International Programs, University of Oregon, panelist for an orientation for Northwest Council on Study Abroad faculty, Portland, 2006.

Overseas Study, Office of International Programs, University of Oregon. Faculty advisor for the Querétaro program. Fall 2005-.

Oregon University System program at the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, Summer 2005. Gave a presentation to prospective students interested in Oregon.

Interamerican University Studies Institute, Querétaro program, Resident Director, Summer Session II, 2005; 18 students.

Office of International Programs, University of Oregon, interviewing applicants for Northwest Council on Study Abroad, 2004.

AHA International, Northwest Consortium of Study Abroad program in London, Spring 2002. Taught and helped advise; 24 students.

Office of International Programs, University of Oregon, search committee service, 1998.

Steering Committee, Friendship Foundation for International Students, University of Oregon, Fall 1995-.

Oregon State System of Higher Education; Study Abroad Committee. Campus visits in Mexico to help select sites, 1991.