Full Name
Robert Haskett
First Name
Robert
Last Name
Haskett
Affiliation
Emeritus
Title
Professor Emeritus
Phone
541-346-4836
Office
340W McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Departments
History
Profile Section
Biographical Information
- Professor, specializing in Latin America, Mexico, Meso-American Ethnohistory
- B.A. 1975, California State University Long Beach
- M.A. 1978 at UC Los Angeles
- Ph.D in 1985 at UC Los Angeles
- With the U of O since 1987
Publications
- Co-Editor, Mesoamerican Ethnohistory Section, Handbook of Latin American Studies (a bi-annual annotated bibliography)
- Indigenous Rulers: An Ethnohistory of Indian Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca (University of New Mexico Press, 1991)
- "'Our Suffering with the Taxco Tribute:' Involuntary Mine Labor and Indigenous Society in Central New Spain," Hispanic American
- Historical Review (1991)
- "Indian Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca: Persistence, Adaptation, and Change" Hispanic American Historical Review (1987)
- "'Not a Pastor, But a Wolf:' Indigenous-Clergy Relations in Early Cuernavaca and Taxco," The Americas (1994)
- "Paper Shields: The Ideology of Coats of Arms in Colonial Mexican Primordial Titles," Ethnohistory (1996)
Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
- William Spence Robertson Prize for Best Article in Hispanic American Historical Review
- National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers
- Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies
Current Research and Writing
- A book on indigenous labor in the Taxco silver mines in colonial New Spain; and research on Indian land titles and local history in Mexico.
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