Women's Studies Affiliate Faculty
Martha FewPh.D., Associate Professor, Department of History
Martha Few is an Associate Professor of Latin American History. Her research focuses on colonial Guatemala and Mexico, Mesoamerican ethnohistory, the history of medicine and healing, religion, and gender studies. She is the author of Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (University of Texas Press, 2002). This work will be published in Spanish translation as Mujeres de mal vivir: Género, religión, y las políticas de poder en la Guatemala colonial. Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, in cooperation with the Maya Educational Foundation and CIRMA (Guatemala City, Guatemala: Editorial Universitaria de San Carlos), forthcoming.
She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters, most recently "'That Monster of Nature': Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a 'Hermaphrodite' in Late Colonial Guatemala," special issue "Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica," Ethnohistory 54:1 (Winter 2007); "'Our Lord Entered His Body': Miraculous Healing and Children's Bodies in Colonial New Spain," in Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds. Religion in New Spain (University of New Mexico Press, 2007), and "Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala," Ethnohistory 52:4 (fall 2005).
She is currently working on a new book, Saving the Indians: Gender, Race, and Medicine in Colonial Guatemala (working title), and on an edited volume with Zeb Totorici, Centering Animals: Writing Animals into Latin American History.