Participant Info
- First Name
- Hannah R.
- Last Name
- Abrahamson
- Country
- United States
- State
- hannah.rose.abrahamson@emory.edu
- Affiliation
- Emory University
- Website URL
- http://history.emory.edu/home/people/graduate/abrahamson.html
- Keywords
- Colonial Latin American History, Atlantic History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Hannah Abrahamson is currently writing her dissertation, which examines the relationships between elite Spanish women and their Maya and Black dependents in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Yucatan, Mexico. She completed her BA in Spanish Language and Literature and her MA in History. Prior to entering Emory’s PhD program, she spent a year researching in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain. She has conducted doctoral research in state and ecclesiastical archives in Mexico City, Yucatan, and Campeche, Mexico. She is currently a residential scholar at the Boundary End Archaeology Research Center. Her research and training have thus far been supported by Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the American Historical Association, the Conference on Latin American History, and Emory’s Laney Graduate School.
- 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, Latin America, North America, Spain
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Family, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Labor, Law, Libraries & Archives, Pedagogy, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
