Visiting assistant professor Iris Montero has just been awarded honorable mention, from the Latin American Studies Association Colonial Section, for the "2021 Best Article in Colonial Latin American Studies by a Junior Scholar" for her article "The Disguise of the Hummingbird: On the Natural History of Huitzilopochtli in the Florentine Codex," Ethnohistory 67.3 (2020).
Additionally, she been awarded a fall 2021 fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton where she will be working on an exciting new book project titled Souls for Silver: Order, Virtue and Extraction in Colonial Latin America.
¡Enhorabuena, Iris!
