Participant Info
- First Name
- Caroline
- Last Name
- Dodds Pennock
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- c.pennock@sheffield.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Sheffield
- Website URL
- https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/history/staff/caroline-dodds-pennock
- Keywords
- Aztecs, Mesoamerica, Indigenous American history, Native American history, Atlantic history, human sacrifice, violence, gender, Spanish America, exploration, discovery, encounter, migration, slavery
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian specialising in Indigenous American, especially Aztec, history and the early modern Atlantic world, with a particular interest in issues of gender, human sacrifice, migration and cultural exchange.
My book, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe, will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson (UK) and Knopf (USA) in January 2023.
As a passionate advocate of public history, I enjoy working with publishers, media, schools, and anyone else who will have me, to give people more interesting and accurate view of the past.
- Recent Publications
POPULAR:
Leila Blackbird and Caroline Dodds Pennock, ‘How Making Space for Indigenous Peoples Changes History’, in Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb (eds), What is History, Now? (London, 2021), pp. 247-62.‘Did the Incas and Aztecs know about each other?’, BBC History Magazine (December 2021).
‘Head to Head: Are Empires Always Bad? The Aztec Empire’, History Today, 69.7 (July 2019).
‘In Search of the Real Aztecs’, BBC World Histories, 7 (November 2017), pp. 40-7 [and online]
‘The 25 global history books you must read’, BBC World Histories, 10 (June/July 2018), pp. 71-8.
‘On The Spot: Caroline Dodds Pennock’, History Today (July 2017), p.112.
SCHOLARLY:
Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (Basingstoke, 2008; paperback 2011).Robert Anthony, Stuart Carroll and Caroline Dodds Pennock (eds), The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume III, AD 1500 – AD 1800 (Cambridge, 2020).
Caroline Dodds Pennock and Amanda Power, ‘Globalising Cosmologies’, Past & Present, vol. 238 Annual Supplement 13: The Global Middle Ages, ed. Catherine Holmes and Naomi Standen (2018), pp. 88-115.
‘Women of Discord: Female Power in Aztec Thought’, The Historical Journal, 61.2 (2018), pp. 275-99.
‘“A Remarkably Patterned Life”: Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City’, Gender & History, 23.3 (November 2011), pp. 528-46.
‘Mass Murder or Religious Homicide? Rethinking Human Sacrifice and Interpersonal Violence in Aztec Culture’, HSR: Historische Sozialforschung/Historical Social Research 37.3 (2012), pp. 276-302.
- Media Coverage
- I have media experience as a writer, consultant and talking head for TV, radio, website, publishers and popular magazines. You can find more information, as well as clips, on my website.
- @carolinepennock
- Country Focus
- Mexico, Atlantic world
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, Caribbean, Central America, Latin America, Spain
- Expertise by Chronology
- 1, 2, 6
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Family, Gender, Public History, Sexuality, Slavery, Women