Nancy Marguerite Farriss (born May 23, 1938) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

who is professor emerita at the

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Life

Nancy Marguerite Farriss was born on May 23, 1938. She specializes in the colonial history of Mexico, and completed her doctorate from

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in 1965, after she earned a B.A. at

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. This was followed by brief posts at the

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, Jamaica and the

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in Williamsburg, VA. In 1971 she was appointed as Associate Professor of History at the

and continued there for the rest of her career, becoming Annenberg Professor of History in 1990. She is now professor emerita.

Awards

* 1983

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...

* 1985

Beveridge Award The Albert J. Beveridge Award is awarded by the American Historical Association (AHA) for the best English-language book on American history (United States, Canada, or Latin America) from 1492 to the present. It was established on a biennial basis ...

for ''Maya society under colonial rule: The collective enterprise of survival'' * 1986

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

Works

* '' Ecclesiastical immunity in new Spain 1760–1815'' 1965 * ''Crown and clergy in colonial Mexico, 1759–1821: the crisis of ecclesiastical privilege'', Athlone Press, 1968 *

References

External links

CNCA / Artes de México Pasta: Rústica Número de páginas: 552 Idioma: Español Publicación: CONACULTA – INAH / Artes de México Precio: $600 Ciudad de publicación: México, D. F. País de publicación: México University of Pennsylvania faculty University of Pennsylvania historian Living people MacArthur Fellows 21st-century American historians Historians of Mexico Alumni of University College London American women historians 1938 births Place of birth missing (living people) Barnard College alumni 21st-century American women {{US-historian-stub