Kevin Terraciano

Semblanza

PRESENT POSITIONS: Professor of History and Dr. E. Bradford Burns Chair of Latin American Studies Director of UCLA Latin American Institute and Co-Chair of Latin American Studies Graduate (MA) Program Co-Founder, Getty Digital Florentine Codex Initiative 

EDUCATION: Ph.D in History, UCLA (1994) 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: 

Professor of History, UCLA (2006 - present) Associate Professor of History, UCLA (2001 - 2006) Assistant Professor of History, UCLA (1995 - 2001) 

AREAS OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION: 

History of Colonial Latin America; History of Ancient and Colonial Mexico; Indigenous languages and Cultures of Southern and Central Mexico (especially Nahuatl, Mixtec, Zapotec); Mesoamerican Writing Systems; Colonial Latin American Art; Early Modern Iberian World. 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS (since 2010) 

• The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Co-edited with Jeanette Peterson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. 

• "An Encyclopedia of Nahua Culture: Context and Content." Introduction to The Florentine Codex. 

• "Reading Between the Lines of Book Twelve." Chapter in The Florentine Codex. 

• Canons and Values: Ancient to Modern. Co-edited with Larry Silver. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2019. 

• "Canons Seen and Unseen in Colonial Mexico." Chapter in Canons and Values. 

• "The Zapotec Language Testament of Sebastiana de Mendoza, c. 1675." Co-authored with Pamela Munro et al. In Tlalocan: Revista de fuentes para el conocimiento de las culturas indígenas de México, vol. XXIII. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2018. 

• "History: Ethnohistory: Mesoamerica." Co-edited with Lisa Sousa. Handbook of Latin American Studies, vol. 72. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. Also vols. 70 (2016), 68 (2014), 66 (2012). 

• "Una confesión de homicidio en la Mixteca Alta, 1684." In Tlalocan, vol. XXII, 2017. 

• "Un testamento zapoteco del Valle de Oaxaca, 1614." Co-authored with Pamela Munro et al. In Tlalocan, vol. XXII, 2017. 

• "Parallel Nahuatl and Pictorial Texts in the Mixtec Codex Sierra Texupan." Ethnohistory, 62: 3 (Fall, 2015). 

• "Narrativas de Tlatelolco sobre la Conquista de México." Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, v. 47, 2014. 

• Los mixtecos de la Oaxaca colonial: La historia ñudzahui del siglo xvi al xviii. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013. 

• "Memorias contrapuestas de la conquista de México." In Miradas comparadas en los virreinatos de América, ed. by Ilona Katzew. México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia; CONACULTA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012. 

• "Competing Memories of the Conquest of Mexico." In Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, ed. by Ilona Katzew. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 

• "Voices from the Other Side: Native Views from New Spain, Peru, and North America." In The Atlantic World c.1450-c.1850, ed. by Philip Morgan and Nicholas Canny. London: Oxford University Press, 2011. 

• "A Historiography of New Spain." Co-authored with Lisa Sousa. In The Historiography of Latin America, ed. by Jose Moya. London: Oxford University Press, 2010. 

• "Three Texts in One: Book XII of the Florentine Codex." Ethnohistory, vol. 57 (1) 2010. 

FORTHCOMING BOOKS 

• Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico. Oklahoma University Press, forthcoming in Spring, 2021. 

• Book 12 of the Florentine Codex: Nahua Visions and Voices of the Conquest of Mexico. Co-edited with Diana Magaloni, Jeanette Peterson and Kim Richter. Getty Publications, forthcoming in 2022.