Ismael Pardo

Ismael earned his B.A. in both History and Religious Studies from Oregon State University where he focused mostly on religious histories of Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. He earned his M.A. in History at the University of Michigan where he has continued his studies of Colonial New Spain, Indigenous Histories, and Afro-indigenous Histories.

Ismael is a historian of Colonial Mexico, focusing especially on the histories of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. He is principally interested in the religious, material, and spatial histories of Nahuatl speaking people, especially in how they negotiated with and influenced incoming Hispanicization. Currently, Ismael is conducting advanced Nahuatl language studies, and is beginning to incorporate Nahuatl written sources, alphabetic and graphic, into his research.