Caterina Luigia Pizzigoni

Caterina Luigia Pizzigoni is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University, specializing in the colonial history of Latin America. Her research focuses on Indigenous populations, Nahuatl language (the Indigenous language of central Mexico), social history, household and material culture, religion, and gender dynamics in early Latin America.

• Ph.D., King's College London (2002)
• M.A., University of London (1998)
• B.A., Universita' degli Studi di Milano (1996)

Her publications span books, journal articles, and book chapters, emphasizing Indigenous agency and cultural continuity in colonial Mexico. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Special Dwellers: Saints and People in the Mexican Household, 1600–1800, examining household saints in colonial Mexico. She has also contributed to the Eighteenth-Century Studies journal with a 2023 article on household perspectives in Indigenous ethnohistory.

Her awards include the Mark Van Doren Teaching Award (2017), Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellowship (2013–2014), and multiple teaching and mentoring accolades from Columbia University. She serves on the International Advisory Panel for the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme and is a member of the American Society of Ethnohistory and the American Historical Association.