John F Schwaller

The Conquest of Mexico Revisited

John F. Schwaller is emeritus professor of history at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a research associate in history and Latin American studies at the University of Kansas. He is author and editor of several books as well as numerous articles on the secular clergy in early colonial Mexico, the history of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and the Nahua and Nahuatl language. He is editor of The Americas and former director of the Academy of American Franciscan History. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Ethnohistory in 2022 and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity from State University of New York in 2020.