History & Art History

Joan C. Bristol received her Ph.D. in History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century (University of New Mexico Press, Diálogos series, 2007). Her articles appear in the Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico), the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, and several edited volumes. Her new project explores the intersection of gender and racial ideologies in colonial Spanish America. She has served as secretary and chair of the Colonial Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History. Professor Bristol teaches classes on colonial Latin America, comparative slavery, and historiography, and is affiliated with the Latin American Studies, Honors, and New Century College programs at George Mason University.

Latin America, social and cultural history