PC Humanities Forum: When Montezuma met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History |
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Matthew Restall
Director of Latin American Studies, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History, Anthropology, and Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University A prolific scholar who has written or co-written 16 books and more than 50 published articles, Matthew Restall is a Colonial Latin American historian with expertise in Yucatan and Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, Maya History, the Spanish Conquest, and Africans in Spanish America. Restall has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, in each case studying Mexico’s indigenous and African histories. Presented in cooperation with the Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies. |