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Rebecca Dufendach is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Loyola University Maryland's Department of History. She holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on Nahua and Spanish concepts of illness and health in sixteenth-century New Spain, emphasizing Indigenous perspectives through analysis of pictorial writing systems and Indigenous-language texts. Previously, she served as a Research Specialist for the Getty Florentine Codex Project, which digitized the encyclopedic Florentine Codex to enhance access to early modern Mexican and Nahua knowledge.
Her academic specialties include Latin American History, Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, and Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Dr. Dufendach's work bridges ethnohistorical methodologies with interdisciplinary approaches to recover marginalized voices in historical narratives.
No recent publications or awards are listed in the provided materials. Contact: radufendach@loyola.edu | Office: Humanities 323 | Phone: 410-617-5681.
