Education

• Ph.D., Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, May 2000
• M.A., Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, August, 1991
• B.A., English and Women's Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y., May, 1986, cum laude

Areas of Teaching Expertise

• Native North America
• Anthropology of gender and sexuality
• U.S.-Mexico Border

 Research Interests

• Pueblo Indian ethnohistory
• Spanish colonization of the New World
• Indigenous people and state-making
• Gender, class and ethnicity in colonial encounters

Selected Publications

• "Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in New Mexico, 1539-1820" (forthcoming, University of Arizona Press, Winter 2013).
• "Intimate Ties: Families, Kinship and Marriage in Eighteenth Century Pueblo Communities," in David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio, eds., On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural Southwest (University of California Press, 2012).
• "A World of Women and a World of Men? Pueblo Sorcery and Healing in Eighteenth Century New Mexico," in Lisa Vollendorf and Daniella Kostroun, eds., Women and Religion in the Atlantic World (1600-1800) (forthcoming early 2009, University of Toronto Press).
• "'Abominable Sin' in Colonial New Mexico: Spanish and Pueblo Perceptions of Same-Sex Sexuality," in Thomas Foster, ed., Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America (NYU Press, July 2007).
• "Tradition and Change in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities," Journal of the Southwest Volume 46, No. 3 (Fall 2004): 463-500.
•  "Stratified or Egalitarian? The Sociopolitical Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities," Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History: Volume 69, No. 3 (Spring 2004), pp. 283-304.
• "Conversion to Christianity in Colonial New Mexico: Pedagogy and Personhood in the Pueblo/Franciscan Encounter," Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture, Volume 12, June 2001, p. 29-50.