Graduate Student Bios

Clio Isaacson is a PhD candidate in Latin American history. Her research focuses on Indigenous women in central Mexico during the colonial period.  Her dissertation, “Women of the Nahuatl Annals: Writing the Lives of Women in Late Pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Mexico,” examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahuas portrayed women when writing about the history of their own communities in their own language. By centering sources that were written away from the oversight of Spanish authorities, she highlights how Nahuas perceived women and their experiences in the realms of religion, war, politics, and the imposition of Spanish colonial rule. She is a recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.