Susan Schroeder (born 1939) is an American historian, specializing in the ethnohistory of

Aztec The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those g ...

people of Mexico and in the translation of colonial documents written in

Nahuatl Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...

- especially the chronicles of

Chimalpahin Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (1579, Amecameca, Chalco—1660, Mexico City), usually referred to simply as Chimalpahin or Chimalpain, was a Nahua annalist from Chalco. His Nahuatl names () mean "Runs Swi ...

. She received her PhD in 1984 from UCLA where she studied Nahuatl and Latin American Colonial History with James Lockhart. She is professor emerita at Tulane University, where she taught from 1999 to 2009, after teaching at Loyola University at Chicago from 1985 to 1999. She received the lifetime achievement award of the American Society for Ethnohistory in 2017. http://ethnohistory.org/

Major publications

*2009. The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism. Editor, with David Cahill. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press. *2000. “Jesuits, Nahuas, and the Good Death Society in Mexico City, 1710-1767.” Hispanic American Historical Review. 80 (1). *1998. “The First American Valentine: Nahua Courtship and Other Aspects of Family Structuring in Mesoamerica.” Journal of Family History. 23 (4): 341-354. *1997-2005. Codex Chimalpahin. 6 vols. Translator and editor, with Arthur J. O. Anderson (Vol. 1 and 2), James Lockhart and Doris Namala (Vol. 3), and Anne J. Cruz et al. (vol. 6). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. *1992. Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

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