Camilla Townsend

Camilla Townsend (born January 29, 1965)[1] is an American historian and Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She specializes in the early history of Native Americans in the United States, as well as in the history of Latin America.[2] In 2010, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]

Camilla Townsend
Born (1965-01-29) January 29, 1965
NationalityUnited States
EducationBryn Mawr College
Rutgers University
Known forHistory of Native Americans in the United States
History of Latin America
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsAmerican history
InstitutionsColgate University
Rutgers University
ThesisDoing a day's business in a new nation: A comparative study of daily economic activity in two early republican port towns. Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland, 1820-1835 (1995)
Doctoral advisorSamuel L. Baily

Her 2019 book, Fifth Sun, won the 2020 Cundill History Prize.[4]

Selected publications

Books
  • Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (Texas, 2000)
  • Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (Hill & Wang, 2004)
  • Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (New Mexico, 2006); translated Malintzin: Una mujer indígena en la Conquista de México (Ediciones Era, Mexico, 2015)
  • American Indian History: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
  • Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley (Stanford, 2010)
  • Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive (Oxford University Press, 2019)
  • Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press, 2019)

References
  1. "Townsend, Camilla, 1965-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. "Townsend, Camilla". Rutgers University. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  3. "Camilla Townsend". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  4. "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs wins Cundill History Prize". McGill.ca. 3 December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
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