Bradley Benton

English Chair & Associate Professor of History

Faculty

School of Humanities English

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Areas of Study & Research

Latin American History | Colonial Mexico

Ethnohistory | The Nahuas (Aztec) of Central Mexico

Awards & Honors

Newberry Library (Chicago), Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship, 2025-2026

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Lectureship, NDSU, 2024-2025

National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant, 2014-2017

Obermann Center for Advanced Studies (Univ. of Iowa), Interdisciplinary Research Grant, 2013

Fulbright Commission Fellowship (Spain), 2007-2008

Education

  • PhD (History), UCLA, 2012

Publications

“The Wandering Children of Mexico: Sixteenth-Century Colegios for Mestizos,” Ethnohistory 69, no. 4 (2022): 381-400.

“The Cacicas of Teotihuacan: Early Colonial Female Power and Wealth,” in Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825, edited by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

“El provecho de la alianza: Efectos a largo plazo de la participación tetzcocana en la conquista,” in Nuevos asedios a la conquista de México, edited by Pablo García Loaeza and Héctor Costilla Martínez (Lima: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, 2021).

History of the Chichimeca Nation: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Seventeenth-Century Chronicle of Ancient Mexico, edited and translated by Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, Peter B. Villella, and Pablo García Loaeza (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019). Available here.

In Spanish as:

Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Historia de la nación chichimeca, paleografía, edición y estudio preliminar de Pablo García Loaeza, Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, y Peter B. Villella (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2024).

The Lords of Tetzcoco: The Transformation of Indigenous Rule in Postconquest Central Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Available here.

Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, and Pablo García Loaeza, trans. and eds., The Native Conquistador: Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain, Latin American Originals 10 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015). Available here.