Jacqueline Holler
Professor
History
University of Northern British Columbia
Canada
Biography
Dr. Holler is a specialist in colonial Latin America and women’s/gender history who joined UNBC in 2003. She is the author of Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1530-1601 (Columbia University Press, 2003/205). She is also author of articles and book chapters on early colonial Mexico; co-author, with Peter Bakewell, of the third edition of his History of Latin America (Blackwell, 2009); and co-author of the forthcoming Gendered Society: Canadian Edition (Oxford, 2010). Her current research projects include a SSHRC-funded book-length study of the Cortes Conspiracy of 1566 and a project on women's bodies, health, emotion, and sexuality in early colonial New Spain.
Research Interest
Colonial Latin America Colonial Mexico Women's and Gender History Religion, Health, and Political Culture
