SilverMoon

Teaching Fields:

Latin American History Native American Studies, Ethnohistory; Mesoamerican Studies, Pre-Conquest America, Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, Early Modern Transatlantic Studies, World History and Globalization

Contact:

Dr. SilverMoon
302C Woodburn Hall
P.O. Box 6303
Morgantown, WV 26506-6303
Phone: (304) 293-2421 ext. 5238
Fax: (304) 293-3616
SilverMoon@mail.wvu.edu

• Degrees

  PhD in History, Duke University. 2007.
  M.A. in History. Montana State University. 1999. Native American Studies concentration.
  B.A. in Modern Languages. Montana State University. 1997. Native American Studies concentration.
  Náhuatl Summer Institute, Yale University. 2000 and 2001.

• Research Interests

  My work addresses the value of the Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco in New Spain. This institution, the first in the Americas for superior studies for indigenous boys, mirrors many of the relationships taking place in the larger context of the early colonial experience, particularly for, and between, traditional indigenous elites, rising elites, members of the church, and those holding state power. I illustrate the delicate balance between the Spanish attempts to Christianize and Europeanize the Nahua, and how the Nahua deployed the institution to meet their own goals of cultural survival and autonomy.

  I am also researching the struggle over ideas and censorship in the colonial and early national periods in Latin America, particularly as the Church and Crown tried to maintain control over the Americas across the Atlantic.

• Grad Students Advised

  MA
  Elizabeth Litz

• Courses Offered

• Publications

  “The View of the Empire from the Altepetl: Renaissance Era Nahua Historical and Global Imagination.” With Michael Ennis. Rereading the Black legend. Ed. Greer, Mignolo, Quilligan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

  “The Pioneer Museum: Depository of Communal Memory.” In Celebration of Our Past. Bozeman: Gallatin County Historical Society, 1998.

  Conference Presentations:
  “The Looking Glass: The School of Tlatelolco as Mirror of Colonial Mexico’s Relationships.” LASA, San Juan, 2006.

  “Antonio Valeriano: A Man In-Between Spaces.” Co-Authored with Ethelia Ruiz. American Society of Ethnohistory, Santa Fe, November 2005.

  “The Emergence of a New Nahua Intellectual Elite.” American Society of Ethnohistory, Chicago, October 2004.

  “The Imperial College of Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco: The Formation of a New Indigenous Intellectual Elite.” Duke University Department of History’s Graduate Colloquium. October 2003.