Robinson Herrera

Robinson Herrera is Associate Professor of History in Florida State University's College of Arts and Sciences, specializing in Latin American colonial history. He earned his PhD from UCLA and has conducted archival research in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain. His scholarship examines social and cultural dynamics in sixteenth-century Spanish colonial societies, particularly Guatemala.

Research interests include:

• Social stratification and power relations in colonial Santiago de Guatemala
• Interactions between Indigenous populations, Europeans, and Africans
• Deviancy studies in late colonial contexts
• Historical memory and state manipulation of historical narratives

His monograph 'Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala' analyzes economic, social and cultural intersections in Central America's colonial capital. Current book project 'The Traveling Head' examines deviant sexuality, social memory, and historical narrative manipulation from late colonial to modern Guatemala.