Lisa Sousa
Professor, History; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies
Sousa teaches courses on colonial and modern Latin America. She specializes in colonial Latin America, indigenous peoples of Mexico and women's history.
Contact
- Office: Swan Hall
- Email: lsousa@oxy.edu
- Phone: (323) 259-2753
- Office Hours: T 1:30-3:00 & 4:30-6:00
Department Chair, Latino/a & Latin American Studies
Education: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
She is a co-translator and editor of The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei Tlamahuiçoltica of 1649, a translation and analysis of the earliest Nahuatl-language account of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe (1998). Sousa is also co-translating and co-editing Mesoamerican Voices, a volume of Nahuatl, Maya, and Mixtec writings from colonial Mexico and Guatemala.