Martha Few: Curriculum Vitae, August 2008( PDF version)

Faculty Appointments

• Associate Professor, Department of History,University of Arizona, Fall 2004-present. Faculty Affiliate in the Departments of Women's Studies and Latin American Studies.
• Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Miami, 2003-2004; Assistant Professor, 1997-2003.

Education

• University of Arizona, Ph.D. in History, December 1997.
  
• University of Chicago, A.M. Harris School of Public Policy, A.M. Latin American Studies, June 1989.
• University of Chicago, A.B., Latin American Studies, June 1986.

Books and Books in Preparation

• All of Humanity: Colonial Guatemala and New World Medical Cultures Before the Smallpox Vaccine. Book manuscript in preparation.
• Centering Animals: Writing Animals into Latin American History. Edited book in preparation with Zeb Totorici (UCLA).
• Mujeres de mal vivir: Género, religión, y las políticas de poder en la Guatemala colonial. Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, in cooperation with the Maya Educational Foundation and CIRMA (Guatemala City, Guatemala: Editorial Universitaria de San Carlos), forthcoming.
• Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, (University of Texas Press, 2002; paperback edition 2002).

Published and Forthcoming Articles and Book Chapters

• "Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala." In Lisa Vollendorf and Dana Kostroun, eds., Gender and Religion in the Atlantic World (1600-1800) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), forthcoming.
• "Medical Mestizaje and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730." In Daniela Bleichmar, et. al., eds., Science, Power, and the Order of Nature in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. (Stanford: Stanford University Press), in press, forthcoming December 2008.
• "'That Monster of Nature': Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a 'Hermaphrodite' in Late Colonial Guatemala," special issue "Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica," Ethnohistory 54:1 (Winter 2007), pp. 159-176.
• "'Our Lord Entered His Body': Miraculous Healing and Children's Bodies in Colonial New Spain." In Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds., Religion in New Spain: Varieties of Colonial Religious Experience (University of New Mexico Press, 2007), pp.114-124.
• "Indian Autopsy and Epidemic Disease in Early Colonial Mexico." In Rebecca Brienen and Margaret Jackson, eds., Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico. Mesoamerica Worlds series. (University Press of Colorado, fall 2007), pp. 153-165.
• "'El daño que hace el bien común': Casta revendedoras y los conflictos generados por la venta de carne en Guatemala colonial, 1650-1720," Mesoamérica 49 (2007), pp. 1-24 (lead article).
• "The 'Problem' of Indian Clothing in Guatemala at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century." In Traci Ardren, ed., Flowers for the Earth Lord: Guatemalan Textiles from the Permanent Collection of the Lowe Art Museum (University of Miami Press and Lowe Art Museuem, 2006), pp. 141-150.
• "Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Guatemala," Ethnohistory 52:4 (fall 2005), pp. 673-687, (lead article).
• "Ana Paulinha de Queirós, Joaquina da Costa, and Their Neighbors: Free Women of Color as Household Heads in Rural Bahia (Brazil), 1835," with B. J. Barickman. In David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, eds., Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas (University of Illinois Press, 2004), pp. 169-201.
• "Invasion and Conquest in Mexico." In Margaret A. Jackson and Rebecca P. Brienen, eds., Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico. (University of Miami and Jay I. Kislak Foundation, 2003), pp. 19-27.
• "On Her Deathbed, María de Candelaria Accuses Michaela de Molina of Casting Spells (Guatemala, 1696." In Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling, eds., Colonial Lives: Documents of Latin American History (1550-1850). (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 166-177.
• "'No es la palabra de Dios': acusaciones de enfermedad y las políticas culturales de poder en la Guatemala colonial, 1650-1720," Mesoamérica 20:38 (December 1999), pp. 33-54.
• "Women, Religion, and Power: Gender and Resistance in Daily Life in Late Seventeenth-Century Guatemala," Ethnohistory 42:4 (fall 1995), pp. 627-637.
• "Illness Accusations and the Cultural Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1720," Working Paper 98-10, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, August 1998.

Book Reviews

• Published in American Historical Review, The Americas (2), Ethnohistory (5), Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies (2), The Western Historical Quarterly, New Mexico Historical Review , and Mesoamérica. Complete citations available upon request.

Fellowships and Awards

• Research Professorship, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona, 2008-2009.
• Newberry Library, Short Term Fellowship for Individual Research, summer 2006.
• Huntington Library, Evelyn S. Nation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships, spring 2006.
• John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship, fall 2005.
• Group in Early Modern Studies/Newberry Library Consortium Travel Grant, University of Arizona, summer 2005.
• Instructional Advancement Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami, 2003-2004, to develop interdisciplinary, team-taught class "1492."
• General Research Support Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami, summer 2002.
• Newberry Library, Rockefeller Foundations Postdoctoral Fellowship, September 1999-May 2000.
• Nominee, Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Miami, 2002.
• Max Orovitz Award in Arts and Humanities for Summer Research, College of Arts and Aciences, University of Miami, summer 1998 and summer 1999.
• Fellow, Harvard University, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World: Cultural Encounters in Atlantic Societies, 1500-1800, August 1998.
• John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship, fall 1995.
• Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona, 1990-1991; 1996-1997.
• Edward Turville Dissertation Research Grant, University of Arizona, 1995.
• American Society for Ethnohistory Travel Grant, 1993.

Selected Academic Papers and Presentations Since 2005

• "Indigenous Maya Barbers, Post Mortem Cesareans, and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1780-1804." Invited paper given at the "Artisans and Medicine Workshop," Wellcome Trust/University College London, May 2008.
• "Circulating Smallpox Knowledges: José Flores, Maya Indians, and Designing the Real Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna, 1780-1806." Invited paper given at the UCLA/Clark Library symposium "Circulation and Locality in Early Modern Science," October 2007.
• "'Saving the Indians': Historicizing Human Rights Discourses in the Anti-Smallpox Campaigns in Colonial Guatemala, 1680-1780." Invited paper given for the symposium "Genocide and Violence in Latin American History," Central Michigan University, August 2007."
• "Cesarean Operations and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1780-1804." Presented at the American Association of the History of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.
• "'That Marvelous Sexual System': Race, Sexuality, and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala." Invited paper for symposium "Ethnopornography: Sexuality and Anthropological Knowing," Duke University, March 2007.
• "'Like the Excesses Found Among Egyptians': Colonial Medicine and the Politics of Race and Sexuality in Enlightenment Guatemala." Presented at the American Historical Association meetings, Atlanta GA, January 2007.
• "The 'Problem' of Indian Clothing in Guatemala, 1780-1810." Invited paper given at the University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum and Center for Latin American Studies, October 2006.
• Commentator and Panel Co-Organizer, "Animals, Colonialism, and the Atlantic World," American Society for Ethnohistory meetings, October 2006.
• "Cesarean Operations and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1780-1804." Invited paper presented at the History Department, Duke University, October 2006.
• "Colonial Medicine and the Politics of Race and Sexuality in Enlightenment Guatemala." Invited paper presented at the USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute symposium of "The Science of Race in the Long Eighteenth-Century," Los Angeles, CA, April 2006.
• "Nature, Sexual Desire, and Colonial Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Guatemala." Presented at the American Society for Ethnohistory meetings, Santa Fe, NM, November 2005.
• "Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala." Invited paper presented at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, November 2005.
• "Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala." Invited paper presented at the UCLA/Clark Library symposium "Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600-1800)," Los Angeles CA, April 2005.

Teaching

• Main teaching areas: colonial and modern Latin America, gender studies, Mesoamerican and Andean ethnohistory, history of medicine and healing, comparative colonialism, historiography.
• Undergraduate courses taught: Colonial Latin America, Colonial Mexico, Travel Writing in Latin America, Gender in Latin American History, The History of the Maya, Race and Class in Colonial Latin America, History Methods Seminar, "1492."
• Graduate courses taught: Colonial Latin America, Medicine and healing in the Atlantic World, Medicine and Science in Latin American History, Gender, Race and Class in Latin America, Modern Mexico, The History of Crime in Latin America, Comparative Colonial Medicine, Comparative Women's and Gender History, Historiography.

Selected Service Since 2005

• Editorial Board Member, Ethnohistory (three year term, 2007-2009).
• American Historical Association, Committeee on Research Grant Awards, U.S./Western Hemisphere (three year term, 2006-2008; Chair, 2006-2007).
• Board Member, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA), international exchange programs with the University of Arizona and other U.S. colleges and universities. Antigua, Guatemala, 2005-present.
• Chair (elected), Colonial Studies Committee, 2003-2005; Secretary (elected) 2002-2003, Committee on Latin American History, American Historical Association.
• Steering Committee Member, Group in Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, 2006-2009.
• Search Committee Member, History Department, Medieval Europe, 2006-2007.
• Chair, Third-year Review Committee, History Department, 2006-2007

Last Updated: 11 August 2008