Lisa Sousa

Lisa Sousa is a Professor of History and Chair of the Latino/a & Latin American Studies department at Occidental College. She specializes in colonial Latin America, indigenous peoples and languages of Mexico, and women/gender studies, with a focus on ethnohistorical research and indigenous perspectives of conquest.

Her groundbreaking work includes analyzing the Florentine Codex and colonial-era indigenous accounts of cultural destruction. She has published extensively on topics such as native marriage practices, indigenous views of conquest, and gender dynamics in colonial Mexico.

• Co-translator and co-editor of The Story of Guadalupe (1998)
• Co-translator and co-editor of Mesoamerican Voices (2005)
• Author of award-winning book The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar (2017)

Lisa Sousa's research has been supported by prestigious institutions including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Getty Research Institute, where she served as Scholar in Residence (2018). She teaches courses on colonial Latin America, Nahuatl language and culture, religion in Mexico, and gender studies.

• Recipient of multiple academic awards
• Active mentor in undergraduate research
• Current projects focus on indigenous social memories of 16th-century cultural destruction