Biography
As a historian, I aim to cross historiographical and geographical frontiers and to reconstruct the everyday experiences of people who were born without the privileges of power. I want to include their stories in the historical narratives of the "early modern" period and nineteenth century, when Indigenous peoples around the world confronted European colonialism.
I am currently writing “Antona’s Journeys” – the biography of an enslaved African woman – and continuing to work on “First Routes: Indigenous Trade and Travel in North America,” which recovers Native American commercial networks between the Mesoamerican highlands and the Rio Grande Valley.
Before coming to Rutgers, I was Associate Professor at Penn State and Assistant Professor of History at Miami University.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City
Cambridge University Press, 2026
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Cambridge University Press, 2020
Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica Empire
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2018
Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics: The Money That Made Mexico and the United States
Rowman & Littlefield, 2017
Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians
Cambridge University Press, 2015
- Seijas, Tatiana. 2014. Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians. Cambridge Latin American Studies Series. New York: Cambridge University Press.
~Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize for 2014 - Seijas, Tatiana. 2016. "Asian Migrations to Latin America in the Pacific World, 16th – 19th Centuries." History Compass 14 (12):573–581.
- Seijas, Tatiana. 2016. "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: The Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico." Colonial Latin American Review 25 (1):56-76.
- Seijas, Tatiana, and Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva. 2016. "The Persistence of the Slave Market in Seventeenth-Century Central Mexico." Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies 37 (2):307-33.
- Seijas, Tatiana, and Jake Frederick. 2017. Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics: The Money That Made Mexico and the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Schwartz, Stuart B., and Tatiana Seijas, eds. 2017. Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica Empire. 2 ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
- Ferreira, Roquinaldo, and Tatiana Seijas. 2018. "The Slave Trade to Latin America: A Historiographical Assessment." In Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction, edited by Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Seijas, Tatiana. 2018. "Social Order and Mobility in 16th- and 17th-Century Central Mexico." The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History.
- Seijas, Tatiana. 2019. "The Royal Road of the Interior in New Spain: Indigenous Commerce and Political Action." In The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World, edited by Danna A. Levin Rojo and Cynthia Radding. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Seijas, Tatiana. 2020. "Slaving and the Global Reach of the Moro Wars in the Seventeenth Century.” In Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, c. 1500-1800, edited by Jos Gommans and Ariel Lopez. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
- Ball, Erica L., Tatiana Seijas, and Terry L. Snyder, eds. 2020. As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Seijas, Tatiana, and Dana Velasco Murillo. 2021. "Introduction: A New Mining and Minting History for the Americas." Colonial Latin American Review 30 (4):485-97.
- Seijas, Tatiana. American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Recent Fellowships
- William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Bill and Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow, 2020-21 - The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2018-19 - American Council of Learned Sciences, New York, NY
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars at the National Humanities Center, 2016-17
Courses
I teach courses on the history of the Pacific World, Slavery and Freedom, and the Early Modern Americas.
Read student projects completed in my undergraduate seminars: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wd5v1fvha8my65p/AABVhX0dwSF_sNWynK83DGDma?dl=0