The American Society for Ethnohistory held their annual meeting, which was titled this year as "Colonial (dis)Entanglements", on September 18-21 in Fargo, North Dakota. Several Rutgers PhD candidates and graduates were in attendance, including: Celso Armando Mendoza, Bridge to Faculty postdoc at the University of Illinois Chicago and a recent Rutgers History PhD graduate; Joshua Anthony, current Rutgers History PhD candidate; Clio Isaacson, current Rutgers History PhD candidate; Peter Bjorndahl Sorensen, Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and Rutgers History PhD graduate; and Tatiana Seijas, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers.
See below for details on their presentations:
Thursday, September 19:
- Tatiana Seijas presented their paper titled Rebellion? Revolution? Challenging the Tropes of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt for the panel "Memories of Neo-Colonialism".
Friday, September 20:
- Celso Armando Mendoza was the Chair for the panel titled "'Why Does Justicia Only Listen to One Side?' The Early Colonial Nahuas Using and Confronting the Spanish (In) Justice System" and also presented their paper titled “Whoever protests will have Justicia done on them”: Incarceration and Punishment of Nahuas and People of Color in Colonial Mexico.
- Clio Isaacson presented their paper titled Scandalous Gobernadores: Indigenous Elites, Sexual Misbehavior, and Violence Against Women for the panel titled "'Why Does Justicia Only Listen to One Side?' The Early Colonial Nahuas Using and Confronting the Spanish (In) Justice System".
- Joshua Anthony presented their paper titled An Indigenous Administrator in Colonial Mexico: Don Martín de Silva, Nahua juez de residencia for the panel titled "'Why Does Justicia Only Listen to One Side?' The Early Colonial Nahuas Using and Confronting the Spanish (In) Justice System".
- Peter Bjorndahl Sorensen presented their paper Tepaneca Pride and Conflict in the First Hundred Years After the Conquest for the panel titled "'Why Does Justicia Only Listen to One Side?' The Early Colonial Nahuas Using and Confronting the Spanish (In) Justice System".
- Tatiana Seijas was the commenter for the panel "'Why Does Justicia Only Listen to One Side?' The Early Colonial Nahuas Using and Confronting the Spanish (In) Justice System".
Pictured: Josh Anthony delivering their presentation