"Santitos”: Saints and People in the Indigenous Household in Colonial Mexico and Beyond

Thursday, 18 June 2026, 5pm to 6pm

Caterina Pizzigoni is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. She works on the early modern history of Latin America, specializing in Indigenous populations, sources in Nahuatl, social history, household and material culture. Dr. Pizzigoni has published books and articles on a wide range of topics, including: Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico, with Camilla Townsend (Penn State University Press, 2021); The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800 (Stanford University Press, 2012); Testaments of Toluca (Stanford University Press and UCLA, 2007).

Speaker(s): Caterina Pizzigoni (Columbia University)

Series: Oxford Latin American History Seminar

Venue: 1 Church Walk - LAC Main Seminar Room - LAC Main Seminar Room 1 Church Walk Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6LY United Kingdom

Host: Latin American Centre

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