Education
Ph.D. – King’s College,  London, UK, 2002
M.A. – University of London, 1998
B.A. – Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 1996

Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE

Interests and Research
Caterina Pizzigoni, assistant professor, specializes in Latin American history.  Her research interests include indigenous populations in colonial Latin America (principally Mexico), gender issues, church and government policies in colonial Latin America with respect to conversion, education, and integration of indigenous populations, and the study of Nahuatl, its translation and analysis of colonial documents (mainly testaments, or mundane documents).

Affiliations
Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, Mexico, D.F.
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F.
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F.
American Society of Ethnohistory
American Historical Association
Society of Latin American Studies
Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos

Courses
Fall 2008
HIST G8663 – Historiography of Colonial Latin America
HIST W3660 – Latin American Civilization I

Other Courses
Introduction to Historical Methodology in Latin American History
Introduction to Historical Interpretation and Methods
Nahuatl Language and Culture
Indigenous Worlds of Early Latin America
Gender and Sexualities in Early Latin America
Contemporary Western Civilizations

Research Fellow in History, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, UK, 2004 – 2006
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2002 – 2004
Visiting Research Fellowship, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Américanos, Seville, Spain, 2003
Ph.D. Grant from the British Federation of Women Graduates Charitable Foundation, London, 2001
Ph.D. Scholarship from the University of London, 2001
Ph.D. Scholarship from the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores of Mexico and Ministero degli Affari Esteri of Italy, 2000

Books
Testaments of Toluca

Scholarly Articles
“Late Nahuatl Testaments from the Toluca Valley: Indigenous-Language Ethnohistory in the Mexican Independence Period,” with Miriam Melton-Villanueva, Ethnohistory 55, 3 (2008): 361-391
“Region and Subregion in Central Mexican Ethnohistory: The Toluca Valley, 1650-1760,” Colonial Latin American Review 16, 1 (2007): 71-92
“Alternative Sex and Gender in Early Latin America,” commentary to the special issue of Ethnohistory, Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities 54, 1 (2007): 187-194
“Amid Idealisation and Practice: Archbishops, Local Clergy, and Nahuas in the Toluca Valley, 1712-1765,” Swedish Missiological Themes 91, 2 (2003): 249-73
“Tra assimilazione e resistenza: il ruolo delle donne Nahua nelle comunità del Valle de Toluca, XVIII secolo,” Quaderni di Thule 1 (2002): 255-62 (special publication of the XXIII International Congress of Americanists in Italy)

Book Chapters
“El espacio compartido. Relaciones familiares en el hogar indígena, Valle de Toluca, siglo XVIII,” in Tradiciones y conflictos. Historias de la vida cotidiana en México e Hispanoamérica, Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru and Mila Bazant, editors (Mexico, D.F.: El Colegio de México, and El Colegio Mexiquense, 2007), pp. 145-160
“Sources for Indigenous Women and Men in the Valley of Toluca, Eighteenth Century,” in Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, editors (electronic version: http://whp.uoregon.edu, 2007)
“ ‘Como frágil y miserable’: las mujeres nahuas del Valle de Toluca,” in Historia de la vida cotidiana en México, vol. 3, El siglo XVIII: entre tradición y cambio, Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru, editor (Mexico, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005), pp. 501-30
“ ‘Para que le sirva de castigo y al pueblo de exemplo’. El pecado de poligamia y la mujer indígena en el Valle de Toluca (siglo XVIII),” in Las mujeres en la construcción de las sociedades iberoamericanas, Berta Ares Queija and Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru, editors (Seville and Mexico, D.F.: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, and Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, 2004), pp. 193-217