Susan Kellogg
Professor
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- Phone: (713) 743-3118
- Email: skellogg@uh.edu
- Office: 538 Agnes Arnold Hall
Professor Kellogg is a scholar of Mexican and Latin American history whose research focuses on indigenous peoples, law, and women in Latin America, particularly Mexico. She also studies colonialism and cultural change and the impact of each on Latin American history. Prof. Kellogg received her doctorate (in anthropology) from the University of Rochester. She has been both Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department and currently serves as Director of the Latin American Studies Program.
Teaching
Prof. Kellogg’s teaching has centered on offering undergraduate courses on colonial Latin America and Mexico as well as a course on women’s history in Latin America, past and present. She developed a course on Latin American history through film, and at the graduate level, she teaches on women’s history as well as on colonial historiography and ethnohistory. Her most recent focus in teaching has been on developing an interdisciplinary introductory Latin American Studies course (LAST 3300).
Research Interests
Prof. Kellogg is author or editor of four books and numerous articles. Her book, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700, received Honorable Mention for the Howard Francis Cline Memorial Award from the Council on Latin American History. This book discusses law and social and cultural change among the Mexica of central Mexico in the pre- and post-conquest period. Her book, Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America’s Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present, was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. She is beginning research on the history of native women’s land tenure in several regions of colonial and modern Latin America and is also editing a book with Ethelia Ruiz, Negotiation within Domination: New Spain’s Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State, to be published by the University Press of Colorado (2008).
Selected Publications
- Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2005).
- "Conflict and Cohabitation between Afro-Mexicans and Nahuas in Central Mexico," co-authored with Norma Angélica Castillo Palma, in Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America, ed. By Matthew Restall, University of New Mexico Press, 2005).
- "From Parallel and Equivalent to Separate but Unequal: Tenochca Women, 1500-1700," in Indian Women of Early Mexico (ed. By Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, University of Oklahoma Press, 1997).
- Law and the Transformation of Aztec Society, 1500-1700 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).
- Dead Giveaways: Colonial Testaments of Spanish America ed. by Susan Kellogg and Matthew Restall (University of Utah Press, 1998).
- Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life, co-authored with Steven Mintz (Free Press, 1988).