Colloquium: “When You’re a Priest, Even Healers Work for the Devil: Settler Persecution and Nahua Resistance in Colonial Mexico” by Edward Anthony Polanco

Colloquium: “When You’re a Priest, Even Healers Work for the Devil: Settler Persecution and Nahua Resistance in Colonial Mexico” by Edward Anthony Polanco

by Keith Miyake Events

Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:

“When You’re a Priest, Even Healers Work for the Devil: Settler Persecution and Nahua Resistance in Colonial Mexico”

By Edward Anthony Polanco

Monday, March 3, 2025
1:00-2:00 p.m.
INTN 3023

Dr. Edward Anthony Polanco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, which occupies the Monacan Indian Nation’s territory. He also serves as the Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at Virginia Tech. Dr. Polanco received his Ph.D. in History (with a minor in Anthropology) at the University of Arizona.

He is author of Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1650 (University of Arizona Press, 2024) and various articles that pertain to health, the body, and Mesoamerica.