Friday, December 7, 12pm.

Conference Room 529

Caterina Pizzigoni, is associate professor of Latin American History at Columbia University. Her research interests include indigenous populations in colonial Latin America and the study of sources in Nahuatl (indigenous language of central Mexico), household and material culture, gender issues, church and government policies with respect to conversion, education, and integration of indigenous populations.

Prof. Pizzigoni is the author of Testaments of Toluca (Stanford university Press, 2007) and her forthcoming book is titled:  The life within: local indigenous society in Mexico’s Toluca valley, 1650-1800. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2012.)

 Co-sponsored by the Janey Program In Latin American Studies and the History Department at The New School For Social Research