About Us
Liza Bakewell is Director of The Mesolore Project and Research Associate at the Center for Latin American Studies in the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University. She is also Assistant Professor of Research in Brown's Department of Anthropology. Her research centers on language and culture, art and nationalism, gender and women's studies. She is author of the forthcoming book, Madre: Travels with a Spanish Noun, a linguistic memoir, and co-author of the CD-ROM Mesolore: Exploring Mesoamerican Culture. She is the recipient of National Science Foundation grants (1987, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004), Ford Foundation grants (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000) and a Fulbright Fellowship (1986, 1987).
Byron Hamann is a doctoral candidate in the departments of History and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research centers on early modern Europe, pre-Hispanic and early modern Mesoamerica, and the role of the inquisitions and archives in social transformations. He is coauthor of the CD-ROM Mesolore: Exploring Mesoamerican Culture and project manager for the DVD-web resource Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America 1520-1820.