Research: Books
Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren, Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation
in the Spanish Empire (Penn State University Press, 2020). Awarded the 2021 Teaching Edition Prize by the
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG)
Martha Few, For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015). Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2016 Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize in Colonial Latin American History.
Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici, eds., Centering Animals in Latin American History (Duke University Press, 2013).
Martha Few, Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (University of Texas Press, 2002).
Research: Selected Journal Articles
•“Epidemics, Indigenous Communities, and Public Health in the COVID-19 Era: Views from Smallpox Inoculation Campaigns in Colonial Guatemala,” Journal of Global History, Volume 15, Issue 3 (Special Issue: Pandemics that Changed the World. Historical Reflections on COVID-19), (November, 2020), 380-393; Open Access.
•"The Lives and Deaths of Caged Birds: Transatlantic Voyages of Wild Creatures from the Americas to Spain, 1740s–1790s," in press and forthcoming in Ethnohistory, 67:1 (July 2020), 481-501.
• "Early Modern Insects and Indigenous Mesoamerica," Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies L:1, special issue 50th Anniversary Edition "Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies,” (Spring 2020), 156-162.
• “'Speaking with the Fire': The Inquisition Confronts Mesoamerican Divination to Treat Child Illness in Sixteenth-Century Guatemala," Early Science and Medicine, special issue "Medicine and the Inquisition, Twenty Years After: Novel Approaches and New Research," 23 (2018), 159-176.
• "Circulating Smallpox Knowledges: Guatemalan Doctors, Maya Indians, and Designing Spain's Royal Vaccination Expedition, 1780-1806," British Journal for the History of Science 43:4 (December 2010), 519-537.
• "'That Monster of Nature': Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a 'Hermaphrodite' in Late Colonial Guatemala," special issue "Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica," Ethnohistory 54:1 (Winter 2007), 159-176.
• "Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala," Ethnohistory 52:4 (fall 2005), 673-687.
•"The Lives and Deaths of Caged Birds: Transatlantic Voyages of Wild Creatures from the Americas to Spain, 1740s–1790s," in press and forthcoming in Ethnohistory, 67:1 (July 2020), 481-501.
• "Early Modern Insects and Indigenous Mesoamerica," Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies L:1, special issue 50th Anniversary Edition "Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies,” (Spring 2020), 156-162.
• “'Speaking with the Fire': The Inquisition Confronts Mesoamerican Divination to Treat Child Illness in Sixteenth-Century Guatemala," Early Science and Medicine, special issue "Medicine and the Inquisition, Twenty Years After: Novel Approaches and New Research," 23 (2018), 159-176.
• "Circulating Smallpox Knowledges: Guatemalan Doctors, Maya Indians, and Designing Spain's Royal Vaccination Expedition, 1780-1806," British Journal for the History of Science 43:4 (December 2010), 519-537.
• "'That Monster of Nature': Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a 'Hermaphrodite' in Late Colonial Guatemala," special issue "Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica," Ethnohistory 54:1 (Winter 2007), 159-176.
• "Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala," Ethnohistory 52:4 (fall 2005), 673-687.