Camilla Townsend

Camilla Townsend (born January 29, 1965)^[1] is an American historian and Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She specializes in the early history of Native Americans in the United States, as well as in the history of Latin America.^[2] In 2010, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[3]

Her 2019 book, Fifth Sun, won the 2020 Cundill History Prize.^[4]

Selected publications[]

Books[]

• Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (Texas, 2000)
• Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (Hill & Wang, 2004)
• Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (New Mexico, 2006); translated Malintzin: Una mujer indígena en la Conquista de México (Ediciones Era, Mexico, 2015)
• American Indian History: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
• Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley (Stanford, 2010)
• Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press, 2019)

References[]

5 Malintzin, la historia de un enigma.^[1]

External links[]

• Faculty page

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