Nancy Marguerite Farriss

Professor Nancy Farriss is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Farriss held positions at the University of West Indes, Jamaica and the College of William and Mary. Her research focuses on post-conquest cultural change in Mexico. The work combines Spanish colonial history from Seville and local archives, Mexican ethnological research, and language studies. Her books include Crown and Clergy in Colonial Mexico, 1759-1821 (1968),  Maya Society under Colonial Rule (1984) (winner of the Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Award, and Albert J. Beveridge Award), La Sociedad Maya Bajo el Dominio Colonial (2012), Libana: el discurso ceremonial mesoamericano (2014), and Tongues of Fire: Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico.  She is currently preparing a study of religious change in southern Mexico from the viewpoint of material culture.