Participant Info
- First Name
- Hannah R.
- Last Name
- Abrahamson
- Country
- United States
- State
- 21
- habraham@holycross.edu
- Affiliation
- College of the Holy Cross
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Colonial Latin American History, Atlantic History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Hannah Abrahamson is currently Assistant Professor of Early Modern Latin American History at College of the Holy Cross. She is preparing her first book manuscript on Spanish and Maya women’s relationships to the encomienda system in sixteenth-century Yucatan, Mexico. She completed her BA in Spanish Language and Literature at Ohio University and her MA and PhD in History at Emory University. She has conducted research in civil and ecclesiastical archives in Seville, Mexico City, Yucatan, and Campeche. Her research and training have thus far been supported by Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the American Historical Association, and the Conference on Latin American History.
- Recent Publications
Abrahamson, Hannah R. “En la tinta del vencedor: la representación de la mujer indígena en las crónicas de Indias de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda y Fray Bartolomé de las Casas.” Chasqui 47, no. 1 (2018): 51-67.
- Media Coverage
- Country Focus
- Mexico
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, Caribbean, Central America, Latin America, North America, Spain
- Expertise by Chronology
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Family, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Labor, Law, Libraries & Archives, Migration & Immigration, Pedagogy, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
