2101M Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4269
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: acaneque@umd.edu

          Alejandro Cañeque is a specialist in the history of colonial Latin America, early modern Spain, and the Spanish empire. He has researched and taught in the UK, Mexico, Peru, Spain and the USA. His main area of research is the political and religious cultures of the early modern Spanish world, with an emphasis on colonial Spanish America and the Spanish Atlantic world. He is the author of The King’s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico (2004), a study of the Spanish colonial and imperial political cultures. He is also the editor, in collaboration with Nancy Fee, of Juan de Palafox’s The Virtues of the Indian. He is currently working on a study of the politics of martyrdom on the frontiers of the Spanish empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
            Professor Cañeque teaches courses on the history of the encounter between Europeans and natives in the New World, colonial Spanish America, early modern imperialism and colonialism, and the Atlantic world.

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