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David Tavárez
received a combined Ph.D. in
Anthropology and History from the University of
Chicago in 2000. Before coming to Vassar in 2003,
he was the director of Latin American and
Iberian Studies at Bard College. He is a
linguistic anthropologist and an ethnohistorian whose
research focuses on responses to colonial
evangelization, the clandestine production of texts by
colonial Nahua and Zapotec authors, indigenous
autonomy projects, and the links among historical
consciousness, nationalism, and global ideologies.
Tavárez's present and future course offerings include
language and culture, introductory linguistics,
Mesoamerican and Andean topics, ethnohistory,
indigenous autonomy, and writing and memory. He is a
member of the Latin American Studies Program at
Vassar. His publications include articles in Colonial
Latin American Review, Journal of Early Modern
History, and Historia Mexicana. In addition to revising
his dissertation, he is currently working on the
translation of the only surviving colonial-period corpus
of clandestine ritual songs in a Mesoamerican
language, and on the translation of a canonical
chronicle of the conquest of Mexico, as transcribed by a
Nahua historian.
Tavárez's research has been supported by grants and
fellowships from NEH, NSF, FAMSI, RISM, and the
Mellon and Hewlett Foundations.
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