Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Professor & Chair – 18TH-19TH c. Latin America, especially Mexico; environmental and social history; gender and family; popular culture and violence
- B.A. (Ottawa), M.A. (Tulane), Ph.D. (Tulane)
- Email Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Research Interests
- Origins of gender violence in Latin America
- Masculinity in colonial Mexico
- Latin America, especially Mexico
Honours and Awards
2019 Research Fellow of the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, Universidad de Guadalajara. (Funded by the German Ministry of Education)
2015-2016 Marston Lafrance Research Fellowship
2011-2014 SSHRC recipient
1998 Conference on Latin American History Prize, [best English-language article of the year], Honourable mention, for “The Intersection of Rape and Marriage in Late-Colonial and Early-National Mexico.”
1992 Tibesar Award, [best article in the journal The Americas] granted by the Conference on Latin American History, for “Indigenous Communities and Water Rights in Colonial Puebla: Patterns of Resistance.”
Select Publications
Books:
Ciclos de violencia y g茅nero: los momentos de conflictos en Am茅rica Latina como generadores de identidad de g茅nero.
Cycles of Violence and Gender: Generator Moments in Latin American History and Gender Identity. San Jos茅: Universidad de Costa Rica, 2021. (129 pages)
The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019).
Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750- 1856 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012).
To Defend Our Water with the Blood of our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999).
Anthologies:
With Javier Villa-Flores. Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico. (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, in press for Spring 2014).
With Lyman Johnson. The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame and Violence in Colonial Latin America. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998).
Articles and chapters:
J贸venes imprudentes: conducta peligrosa y juventud liminal en Nueva Espa帽a. Jahrbuch f眉r Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Anuario de Historia de Am茅rica Latina Vol. 60 (2023): 69-94.
With Ver贸nica Undurraga Sch眉ler, 鈥 Scandal and Gender in Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin America-Introduction鈥 Jahrbuch f眉r Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Anuario de Historia de Am茅rica Latina Vol. 60 (2023):1-9.
With Zehra Ilhan. 鈥淪paces and Places.鈥 31-48, in A Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance, Vol. 3, Ed Lucy Underwood. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2023.
鈥淭he Emotional Life of Boys in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City.鈥 351-361, in The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience. Ed. Deborah Simonton. London: Routledge, 2017.
鈥溾, en Sociedad indiana.
鈥溾 Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades, Vol. 19, N潞 2, 2015: 239-263.
鈥”If I Can鈥檛 Have Her, No One Else Can鈥: Jealousy and Violence in Mexico.鈥 in Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2014. 66-86.
With Colin Coates, 鈥溾漊n Canadien Errant鈥 in New Mexico: Louis-Marie dit Coulon鈥檚 Heresy and Rebellion鈥 New Mexico Historical Review vol. 87, number 4 (Fall 2012):457-484.
鈥淗onor in the Past: The Case of Mexico鈥, The Inquisitive Mind: Social Psychology for You, issue 13, 2011.
With Colin Coates, 鈥淯n Canadien errant : Louis-Marie Moreau, dit Coulon: h茅r茅sie et r茅bellion au Nouveau-Mexique,鈥 Revue d鈥檋istoire de l鈥橝m茅rique fran莽aise, vol. 63 no. 4 (Printemps 2010): 435-464.
鈥淓l honor y la familia en la Nueva Espa帽a,鈥 in Familia y tradici贸n. Herencias Tangibles y Intangibles, Edited by Nora Edith Jim茅nez Hern谩ndez, (Zamora: El Colegio de Michoac谩n, 2010), volume I, pp. 337-348.
鈥淟anguage of Body and Body as Language: Religious Thought and Cultural Syncretism鈥 in Religi贸n in New Spain. Edited by Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007).
鈥淗onor, familia y violencia en M茅xico.鈥 In Gozos y sufrimientos en la historia de M茅xico. Edited by Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru and Ver贸nica Z谩rate Toscazo. (Mexico City: El Colegio de M茅xico and Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. Jos茅 Mar铆a Luis Mora, 2007).
鈥淟os insultos en la Nueva Espa帽a en el siglo XVIII鈥 in Historia de la vida cotidiana en M茅xico III El siglo XVIII: entre tradici贸n y cambio edited by Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (Mexico City: El Colegio de M茅xico and Fondo de Cultura Econ贸mico, 2005.
鈥淟atin America and the Caribbean鈥 in A Companion to Gender History edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Oxford: Blackwell Books, 2004) 477-491.
鈥淢ira lo que hace el diablo: The Devil in Mexican Popular Culture, 1750-1856鈥 The Americas 59, no. 2, (2002), 201-219.
鈥淢odel Children and Models for Children in Early Mexico鈥 in Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society Edited by Tobias Hecht (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), 鈥 52-72.
Recent Supervisions
Rachel Beausoleil-Morison, PhD program in ISLACS, A Nation Sings Itself: The Voice and Identity in M煤sica Popular Brasileira.
Kate Hallson. M.A. in History. Call the Ticitl: The Ritual of Midwifery in New Spain.
David Barrios Giraldo, M.A. in Political Economy program, Memory and NGOs in late 20th century Colombia.
Christine Rivas, Ph.D. in History, 鈥淧ower, Race, Class and Gender in Colonial Santo Domingo: An Analysis of Spanish
Dominican Marital Patterns in the Archbishopric of Santo Domingo, 1701-1801.鈥
Christine McGuire, MA in Public History (co-supervision with John Walsh), 鈥溾滾iving with the Memory鈥: The Historical Representation and Public Memory of the 1973 Coup D鈥櫭﹖at in Chilean Communities in Ottawa and Toronto.鈥
Adriana Gouvea, M.A. in Public History, 鈥淩epresenting a Difficult Past: Narratives of Slavery at the National Historical Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.鈥
Gillian Gibson, M.A. in History, 鈥淏eyond Two Cold War Blocs: Canadian Involvement in the Peruvian Socialist Nexus, 1960-1975.鈥