Robert Haskett

Director, Undergraduate Program
Office: 355 McKenzie Hall
Phone: (541) 346-4836
E-mail: rhaskett@darkwing.uoregon.edu.

Biographical Information
Professor, specializing in Latin America, Mexico, Meso-American Ethnohistory
B.A. 1975, California State University Long Beach
M.A. 1978 at UC Los Angeles
Ph.D in 1985 at UC Los Angeles
With the U of O since 1987

Major Publications
Co-Editor, Mesoamerican Ethnohistory Section, Handbook of Latin American Studies (a bi-annual annotated bibliography)
Indigenous Rulers: An Ethnohistory of Indian Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca (University of New Mexico Press, 1991)
"'Our Suffering with the Taxco Tribute:' Involuntary Mine Labor and Indigenous Society in Central New Spain," Hispanic American
Historical Review (1991)
"Indian Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca: Persistence, Adaptation, and Change" Hispanic American Historical Review (1987)
"'Not a Pastor, But a Wolf:' Indigenous-Clergy Relations in Early Cuernavaca and Taxco," The Americas (1994)
"Paper Shields: The Ideology of Coats of Arms in Colonial Mexican Primordial Titles," Ethnohistory (1996)

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
William Spence Robertson Prize for Best Article in Hispanic American Historical Review
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers
Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies

Current Research and Writing
A book on indigenous labor in the Taxco silver mines in colonial New Spain; and research on Indian land titles and local history in Mexico.

Recent Teaching
Latin America
History of Mexico
Indigenous History of Latin America