{"id":38886,"date":"2014-12-14T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38886"},"modified":"2014-12-14T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:22:00","slug":"in-memoriam-maria-elena-martinez-lopez-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38886","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez, 47"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Memoriam: Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez, 47<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Southern California<\/a>
\nNews<\/a>
\n2014-11-20<\/p>\n

Susan Bell<\/strong>, Senior Writer
\n(213) 740-7894<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez<\/a>, associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife and a leading scholar of colonial Latin America<\/a> has died. She was 47.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez died at home in Los Angeles<\/a>, surrounded by family and close friends on Nov. 16 after being diagnosed with cancer in late May.<\/p>\n

\u201cProfessor Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez was a brilliant scholar of Spanish American and colonial Mexican history,\u201d said William Deverell<\/a>, professor and chair of history, and director of the USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West at USC Dornsife. \u201cHer historical insights on race, conquest and religion garnered richly deserved awards and praise, and her dedication to scholarship and her students was exemplary. We will miss her terribly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez joined USC Dornsife in 2001. Her work focused on colonial Mexico, the cultural connections between Spain and the Americas, and more generally the formation of the Iberian Atlantic world. She taught courses on Latin American history, slavery in the Atlantic world, early modern religion and race, and gender and sexuality in Spanish America…<\/p>\n

…While at USC Dornsife, she published a number of articles on space, religion, gender and race in New Spain. Her groundbreaking book Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico<\/em><\/a> (Stanford University Press, 2008) reinterpreted the historical foundations of race. It received the American Historical Association\u2019s 2009 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History and the American Historical Association\u2019s Conference on Latin American History\u2019s prize for the best book on Mexican history.<\/p>\n

Most recently she was working on the relationship of Spanish colonial law and indigenous \u201cgenealogical histories\u201d in central Mexico as well as on science and theories of race and sex in the 18th century Spanish Atlantic world.<\/p>\n

She had been conducting extensive research in Mexican, Spanish and U.S. archives for her new book titled The Enlightened Creole Science of Race and Sex: Naturalizing the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World<\/em>.This was intended to be an extension of her first book about ideas of blood purity and race in the early-modern Spanish Atlantic world, examining how religion provided the epistemological foundations for racial discourses in Spain and colonial Mexico…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Memoriam: Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez, 47 University of Southern California News 2014-11-20 Susan Bell, Senior Writer (213) 740-7894 Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez, associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife and a leading scholar of colonial Latin America has died. She was 47. Mart\u00ednez-L\u00f3pez died at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,21,459,103,20],"tags":[18750,18751,18752,696],"class_list":["post-38886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-latincarib","category-history","category-mexico","category-usa","tag-maria-elena-martinez-lopez","tag-maria-martinez-lopez","tag-susan-bell","tag-university-of-southern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}