RECENT RESEARCH ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

"Reading Women into Mixtec Writings." In Essays in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith. Edited by Elizabeth Boone. Tulane University Press, 2005.

"Religion and the Church in Early Latin America." In The Blackwell Companion to the History of the Reformation World. Edited by Ronnie Po-chia Hsia.  Blackwell Publishers, 2003.  

"The 'Original Conquest' of Oaxaca: Late Colonial Nahuatl and Mixtec Accounts of the Spanish Conquest." (with Lisa Sousa) Ethnohistory, 50:2 (Spring 2003).

"The Colonial Mixtec Community." Hispanic American Historical Review, 80:1, 2000.

"El Contexto Histórico del Códice Sierra." In Codices y documentos sobre Mexico: tercer simposio.  Edited by Constanza Vega Sosa. México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2000.

"The Spanish Struggle for Justification in the Conquest of America: Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Spanish American Writings." In Theories of Religious Toleration, ed. by John Christian Laursen, St. Martin's Press, 1999.

"Letting Nahuas Speak." Colonial Latin American Review, 8:2, 1999. Review essay of Codex Chimalpahin, Volume 2. Edited and trans.by Arthur J.O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Oklahoma, 1997. Primeros memoriales, by fray Bernadino de Sahagún, edited and trans. by Thelma Sullivan et al., Oklahoma, 1997. Nahuat Myth and Social Structure, by James Taggart, Texas, 1997 (1983). 

"Crime and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Case of the Mixtec Murder Note."  Ethnohistory, 45:4, 1998.