About
Martha Few is Professor of Latin American history and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. She is Senior Editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. Her work concentrates on the ethnohistory of indigenous peoples during colonial rule through the lenses of medicine and public health, gender and sexuality, environmental history, and human-animal studies.
Professor Few is author of For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala (2015), Centering Animals in Latin American History (2013), and Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (2002). She is also an editor of the Routledge Press book series "New Colonial Histories of Latin America" with Kevin Gosner (University of Arizona) and Ryan Kashanipour (Northern Arizona University), and serves as President of the Southwest Seminar: Consortium on Colonial Latin American History.
Professor Few was recently awarded a 2017 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Collaborative Research Fellowship. Additionally, she has been a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She has also held residential research fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.
Professor Few is author of For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala (2015), Centering Animals in Latin American History (2013), and Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (2002). She is also an editor of the Routledge Press book series "New Colonial Histories of Latin America" with Kevin Gosner (University of Arizona) and Ryan Kashanipour (Northern Arizona University), and serves as President of the Southwest Seminar: Consortium on Colonial Latin American History.
Professor Few was recently awarded a 2017 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Collaborative Research Fellowship. Additionally, she has been a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She has also held residential research fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.
Professor Few recently completed the book Postmortem Cesareans: José Pedro de Arrese's Guatemalan Treatise in Historical Perspective with Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren, and Nina M. Scott, forthcoming from the "Latin American Originals" series at Penn State University Press. This book is an English translation, with critical introduction, of Pedro José de Arrese’s eighteenth-century postmortem cesarean manual and is designed for undergraduate classroom use. She is currently at work on a history of insects in the making of the New World, and on a collaborative project on the early history of the cesarean operation in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires.