Josh Anthony, PhD candidate in History, published the article “Colonial Mesoamerican Ethnohistory: A Special Teaching and Research Collection for The Americas” in The Americas, a leading U.S. journal of Latin American history. The piece is a historiographic study of colonial Mesoamerican ethnohistory—that is, scholarship on Indigenous peoples in Mexico and Central America under Spanish rule—and examines how the field has evolved from the 1940s to the present through an analysis of articles and book reviews published in the journal. Written as part of his 2024–2025 Vault Associate Fellowship with The Americas, the article draws on materials from the journal’s “Vault” and highlights how Indigenous-language research has reshaped the writing of colonial Mesoamerican history, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Josh is currently the Richard S. Dunn Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania) and plans to defend his dissertation, “Amaquemecan's Royal Relations: An Indigenous Family History of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire,” in May. He is also the co-editor, with Camilla Townsend, of After the Broken Spears: The Nahuas in the Wake of Conquest, recently published by Oxford University Press.
Congratulations, Josh!