David Tavárez

David Tavárez, a professor of anthropology at Vassar College, is the author of Rethinking Zapotec Time Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico and The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico, and a coauthor of two volumes, Painted Words, and Chimalpahin’s Conquest. He has also published more than sixty peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Latin American history, linguistic anthropology, and Mesoamerican studies. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, his research has also been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the John Carter Brown Library.