I am a historian of colonial Latin America, focusing on the Andes. My research explores how the indigenous people of the Andes interacted with the colonial state, and how the region’s existing institutions and ruling class were integrated into the Spanish monarchy, in the half-century after the Spanish invaded and conquered Peru in 1535. Before the Spanish invasion, the central Andean highlands (modern Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) were among the few New World regions that resembled early modern Europe, with a densely settled peasant society and an institutionalized, tribute-collecting state (the Inca empire). I focus on three lines of inquiry: first, a major Spanish campaign in 1570 to resettle Andeans into new, Spanish-style towns; second, Andean elites’ strategies for re-establishing their status as a noble class under Spanish rule; and third, Andeans’ voluntary engagement with the colonial legal system as litigants.
Jeremy Ravi Mumford. "A Child Marriage in Early Colonial Cuzco." Journal of Family History, vol. 45, 2020, pp. 1-28. |
Jeremy Ravi Mumford.
"Forgery and Tambos: False Documents, Imagined Incas and the Making of Andean Space," in Christophe Rosenmuller, ed., Corruption in the Iberian Empires: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks (University of New Mexico Press)." Corruption in the Iberian Empires: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks, edited by Christophe Rosenmuller, University of New Mexico Press, 2017, pp. 13-32.
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Jeremy Ravi Mumford.
"La Reducción General de Indios en el Perú, 1569-1575," in Akira Saito and Claudia Rosas, eds., Las reducciones indígenas en debate: su impacto en los dominios de la monarquía hispánica." Las reducciones indígenas en debate: su impacto en los dominios de la monarquía hispánica, edited by Akira Saito and Claudia Rosas, Lima, Peru, Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2016.
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Jeremy Ravi Mumford.
"Las llamas de Tapacarí: un documento judicial de un alcalde de indios en la Audiencia de Charcas, 1580." Histórica, vol. 40, no. 2, 2016, pp. 171-185.
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"Review: Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf, The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World." Journal of Early Modern History, 2015.
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Mumford, Jeremy Ravi. "Review: Franklin Pease, Los Incas en la colonia: Estudios sobre los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII en los Andes." Hispanic American Historical Review , vol. 95, no. 4, 2015, pp. 670-671. |
Mumford, J. R. "Review: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes." Hispanic American Historical Review , vol. 95, no. 2, 2015, pp. 352-353. |
Mumford, J. R. "Review: SERGIO SERULNIKOV. Revolution in the Andes: The Age of Tupac Amaru. CHARLES F. WALKER. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion." The American Historical Review, vol. 120, no. 2, 2015, pp. 685-687. |
"Review: Steven A. Wernke, Negotiated Settlements: Andean Communities and Landscapes under Inka and Spanish Colonialism." Colonial Latin American Historical Review , 2015.
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Jeremy Mumford, Akira Saito, Claudia Rosas Lauro, Steven A. Wernke, Marina Zuloaga Rada, and Karen Spalding.
"Nuevos avances en el estudio de las reducciones toledanas." Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka), vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1-44.
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"Review: Paul Heggarty and Adrian J. Pearce, eds., History and Language in the Andes." Hispanic American Historical Review , 2012.
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Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes . Duke University Press, 2012. |
"Francisco de Toledo, admirador y émulo de la «tiranía» Inca." Histórica, 2011. |
"Review: Heidi V. Scott, Contested Territory: Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." Renaissance Quarterly, 2011.
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"Aristocracy on the Auction Block: Race, Lords, and the Perpetuity Controversy of Sixteenth-Century Peru." Imperial Subjects: Race, Ethnicity and Identity in Colonial Latin America , edited by Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O’Hara, Duke University Press, 2009. |
"Review: Joanne Pillsbury, ed., Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900." Historical Anthropology, 2009.
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"Litigation as Ethnography in Sixteenth-Century Peru: Polo de Ondegardo and the Mitimaes." Hispanic American Historical Review , vol. 88, no. 1, 2008, pp. 5-40. |
"Review essay: The Inca Legend in Colonial Peru." Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2008, pp. 125-141. |
"Review: Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington, Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782." Itineratio , 2008.
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"Why was Louis Riel, a United States Citizen, Hanged as a Canadian Traitor in 1885?." Canadian Historical Review, vol. 88, no. 2, 2007, pp. 237-262. |
"The Inca Priest on the Mormon Stage: A Native American Melodrama and a New American Religion." Common-place, vol. 5, no. 4, 2005. |
"Review: Kenneth Andrien, Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825." Hispanic American Historical Review , 2003.
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"Review: José Miguel Morales Folguera, La construcción de la utopía. El proyecto de Felipe II (1556-1598) para Hispanoamérica and Paz Serrano Gassent, Vasco de Quiroga. Utopía y derecho en la conquista de América." Hispanic American Historical Review , 2002.
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"Review: Stuart Stirling, The Last Conquistador: Mansio Serra de Leguizamón and the Conquest of the Incas." Hispanic American Historical Review , 2001.
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"Métis and the Vote in 19th-Century America." Journal of the West, vol. 39, 2000, pp. 38-45.
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"Mixed-Race Identity in a Nineteenth-Century Family: The Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27." Michigan Historical Review , vol. 21, 1999, pp. 1-23. |
"The Taki Onqoy and the Andean Nation: Sources and Interpretations." Latin American Research Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 1998, pp. 150-165. |
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2005 | PhD | Yale University |
1997 | MA | Columbia University |
1992 | BA | Yale University |
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Residential Fellowship, 2021-2022
New England Council for Latin American Studies, Best Book Prize, honorable mention (for Vertical Empire), 2013
Conference on Latin American History, James Alexander Robertson Prize, honorable mention (prize for best article to appear in Hispanic American Historical Review during the previous year, for “Litigation as Ethnography in Sixteenth-Century Peru”), 2009
Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, 2006-2009
Mary & Arthur Wright Prize (best dissertation on a historical topic outside of North America and Europe), Yale University, 2005
Mellon and Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, Brandeis University, 2004-2006
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2003-2004
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, Spain and Bolivia, United States Department of Education, 2001-2002
HIST 0233 - Colonial Latin America |
HIST 0580M - The Age of Revolutions, 1760-1824 |
HIST 1340 - History of the Andes from Incas to Evo Morales |
HIST 1730 - Cannibals, Barbarians and Noble Savages: Travel and Ethnography in the Early Modern World |
HIST 1956E - How and Why We Talk About the Past: Theory and Method in History |
HIST 1967T - History of the Andes from the Incas to Evo Morales |
HIST 2930 - Colloquium |
HIST 2930 - The Roots of History |
HIST 2935 - Historical Crossings: Empires and Modernity |
HIST 2971T - Colonial Latin America |