Susan Kellogg
Associate Professor (Latin America, Mexico)
523 Agnes Arnold Hall
713-743-3085
skellogg@uh.edu

Professor Kellogg is a scholar of Mexican and Latin American history. Her 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 Ph.D. (in anthropology) from the University of Rochester. She is currently chair of the History Department and previously served as Director of Graduate Studies.

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 and gender history in Latin America, past and present. She recently developed a class on Latin American history through film. At the graduate level, she also teaches a course on women’s history as well as courses on colonial historiography and ethnohistory.

Research:
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 patterns among the Mexica of central Mexico in the pre- and post-conquest periods. She has recently completed a history of indigenous women in Latin America from the prehispanic period to the present.

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 Mexica 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).

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