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First Name
Hannah R.
Last Name
Abrahamson
Country
United States
State
MA
Affiliation
College of the Holy Cross
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Keywords
Colonial Latin American History, Atlantic History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality History
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About Me

Hannah R. Abrahamson is assistant professor of Latin American History at College of the Holy Cross where she teaches courses on early modern Latin America, Indigenous history, and histories of gender and sexuality. She earned her PhD from Emory University in 2022, which received dissertation awards from the Latin American Studies Association and the New England Council of Latin American Studies as well as a post-doctoral prize from the Conference on Latin American History. Her research interests include household dynamics, gendered labor structures, and bondage in the Atlantic World. She is currently writing her first book manuscript provisionally titled “Her Fists Full of Tribute: Domestic Labor and the Encomienda in Early Colonial Yucatan”

Recent Publications

Abrahamson, Hannah R. “Transcription of the Paylist (1577)” in Return to La Tama: Teresa Martín, Luisa Méndez, and the Méndez Cancio Inquiry (1600), eds. Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley, forthcoming with University Press of Kentucky, 2025.

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
Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Family, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Labor, Law, Libraries & Archives, Migration & Immigration, Pedagogy, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women