Lisa Sousa

Semblanza

PRESENT POSITION: Professor, Occidental College, 2012 to present 

EDUCATION: University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. Latin American History, January 1998 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT: Associate Professor, Occidental College, 2006 to 2012 Assistant Professor, Occidental College, 1998 to 2006 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Colonial Latin America, Women's History, Indigenous Peoples of Latin America, Native Languages of Mexico, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Mexican Art History 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: “Flowers and Speech in Discourses on Deviance in Book Ten.” In The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, edited by Jeanette Favrot Peterson and Kevin Terraciano. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. 

“The Zapotec Testament of Sebastiana de Mendoza, c. 1675.” Pam Munro, Kevin Terraciano, Michael Galant, Brooke Danielle Lillehaugen, Aaron Huey Sonnenschein, Xochitl Flores Marcial, Lisa Sousa. Tlalocan, XIII (2018):187-211. 

The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women from Archives of Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, January 2017. 

“El náhuatl colonial de Villa Alta: Comunidades mijes y el arte de la escritura alfabética en lenguas indígenas.” Tlalocan XXII (2017): 45-64. 

“La genealogía de la memoria social indígena: las construcciones estratégicas del pasado en los títulos primordiales de la época colonial” (co-authored with Kevin Terraciano). In Caras y máscaras del México étnico: La participación indígena en las formaciones del Estado mexicano, vol. I. Edited by Andrew Roth Seneff. Zamora, México: El Colegio de Michoacán, 2010. 

Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala. Translated and edited by Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 

“The ‘Original Conquest’ of Oaxaca: Nahua and Mixtec Accounts of the Spanish Conquest” (co-authored with Kevin Terraciano). (Revised and expanded version of earlier article). Ethnohistory, vol. 50, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 349-400. 

The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei Tlamahuiçoltica of 1649. Translated and edited by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M., and James Lockhart. Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies Center Publications, 1998. 

ACADEMIC AWARDS: American Historical Association, Friedrich Katz Prize for Best Book in Latin American and 

Caribbean History, 2018 (for The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar) American Society for Ethnohistory, Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin Award, 2018 (for The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar)