{"id":213,"date":"2009-10-21T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:12:07","slug":"sonya-lipsett-rivera","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/sonya-lipsett-rivera\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonya Lipsett-Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Origins of gender violence in Latin America<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Masculinity in colonial Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Latin America, especially Mexico<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019 Research Fellow of the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, Universidad de Guadalajara. (Funded by the German Ministry of Education)<br>\n2015-2016 Marston Lafrance Research Fellowship<br>\n2011-2014 SSHRC recipient<br>\n1998&nbsp;Conference on Latin American History Prize, [best English-language article of the year], Honourable mention, for &#8220;The Intersection of Rape and Marriage in Late-Colonial and Early-National Mexico.&#8221;<br>\n1992&nbsp;Tibesar Award, [best article in the journal The Americas] granted by the Conference on Latin American History, for &#8220;Indigenous Communities and Water Rights in Colonial Puebla: Patterns of Resistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ciclos de violencia y g\u00e9nero: los momentos de conflictos en Am\u00e9rica Latina como generadores de identidad de g\u00e9nero.<br>\n<\/em><em>Cycles of Violence and Gender: Generator Moments in Latin American History and Gender Identity. <\/em><em>San Jos\u00e9: Universidad de Costa Rica, 2021. (129 pages)&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.calas.lat%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Flipsset._violencia.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CTanyaSchwartz%40CUNET.CARLETON.CA%7Cc716a11c61074c32e0d808db0e9f4097%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638119849356441115%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=lAotS6khLtgZ64x2viX88K1IiKOa5%2By104AXdNTj%2FNw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">http:\/\/www.calas.lat\/sites\/default\/files\/lipsset._violencia.pdf<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico.<\/em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/unmpress.com\/books\/origins-macho\/9780826360403\">https:\/\/unmpress.com\/books\/origins-macho\/9780826360403<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750- 1856<\/em> (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/university-of-nebraska-press\/9780803238336\/\">https:\/\/www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/university-of-nebraska-press\/9780803238336\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To Defend Our Water with the Blood of our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla.<\/em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anthologies:<\/strong><br>\nWith Javier Villa-Flores<strong>.<\/strong> <em>Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico.<\/em>&nbsp;(Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, in press for Spring 2014). <a href=\"https:\/\/unmpress.com\/books\/emotions-and-daily-life-colonial-mexico\/9780826354624\">https:\/\/unmpress.com\/books\/emotions-and-daily-life-colonial-mexico\/9780826354624<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Lyman Johnson. <em>The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame and Violence in Colonial Latin America.<\/em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998). <a href=\"https:\/\/unmpress.com\/books\/faces-honor\/9780826319067\">https:\/\/unmpress.com\/books\/faces-honor\/9780826319067<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Articles and chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;color: black\">J\u00f3venes imprudentes: conducta peligrosa y juventud liminal en Nueva Espa\u00f1a. <i>Jahrbuch f\u00fcr Geschichte Lateinamerikas \/ Anuario de Historia de Am\u00e9rica<\/i>&nbsp;Latina Vol. 60 (2023): 69-94. <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/journals.ub.uni-koeln.de\/index.php\/jbla\/issue\/current. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.ub.uni-koeln.de%2Findex.php%2Fjbla%2Fissue%2Fcurrent&amp;data=05%7C02%7CTanyaSchwartz%40CUNET.CARLETON.CA%7C75a392c5bd474927dacf08dc29a65b6f%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638431041688337065%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=OdMXmsaTs5Y5CsGhXQy2WccTQRjfWZL%2FLG1tqCqrXmg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/journals.ub.uni-koeln.de\/index.php\/jbla\/issue\/current<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;color: black\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;color: black\">With Ver\u00f3nica Undurraga Sch\u00fcler, \u201c Scandal and Gender in Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin America-Introduction\u201d J<i>ahrbuch f\u00fcr Geschichte Lateinamerikas \/ Anuario de Historia de Am\u00e9rica Latina <\/i>Vol. 60 (2023):1-9. <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/journals.ub.uni-koeln.de\/index.php\/jbla\/issue\/current. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.ub.uni-koeln.de%2Findex.php%2Fjbla%2Fissue%2Fcurrent&amp;data=05%7C02%7CTanyaSchwartz%40CUNET.CARLETON.CA%7C75a392c5bd474927dacf08dc29a65b6f%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638431041688349603%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=NERw8sW3aVic3rUtTHRuJfMwZnD1EBSJxZBNHVOfM%2Bg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/journals.ub.uni-koeln.de\/index.php\/jbla\/issue\/current<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;color: black\">With Zehra Ilhan. \u201cSpaces and Places.\u201d 31-48, in <i>A Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance, <\/i>Vol. 3, Ed Lucy Underwood. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Emotional Life of Boys in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City.\u201d 351-361, in <em>The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience<\/em>. Ed. Deborah Simonton. London: Routledge, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/socindiana.hypotheses.org\/320\">A New Challenge: Social History and Dogs in the Era of Post-Humanism<\/a>\u201d, en Sociedad indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistas.usach.cl\/ojs\/index.php\/historiasocial\/issue\/view\/268\/showToc\">The Power of Laughter: Humor, Violence and Consensus in New Spain, 17th and 18th Centuries.<\/a>\u201d <em>Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades<\/em>, Vol. 19, N\u00ba 2, 2015: 239-263.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c&#8221;If I Can\u2019t Have Her, No One Else Can\u201d: Jealousy and Violence in Mexico.\u201d in <em>Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico.<\/em> Edited by Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2014. 66-86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Colin Coates, \u201c\u201dUn Canadien Errant\u201d in New Mexico: Louis-Marie dit Coulon\u2019s Heresy and Rebellion\u201d <em>New Mexico Historical Review<\/em> vol. 87, number 4 (Fall 2012):457-484.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHonor in the Past: The Case of Mexico\u201d,&nbsp;<em>The Inquisitive Mind: Social Psychology for You<\/em>,&nbsp;issue 13, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Colin Coates, \u201cUn Canadien errant : Louis-Marie Moreau, dit&nbsp;Coulon: h\u00e9r\u00e9sie et r\u00e9bellion au Nouveau-Mexique,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Revue d\u2019histoire de&nbsp;l\u2019Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise<\/em>, vol. 63 no. 4 (Printemps 2010): 435-464.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEl honor y la familia en la Nueva Espa\u00f1a,\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Familia y tradici\u00f3n.&nbsp;Herencias Tangibles y Intangibles<\/em>, Edited by Nora Edith Jim\u00e9nez&nbsp;Hern\u00e1ndez, (Zamora: El Colegio de Michoac\u00e1n, 2010), &nbsp;volume I, pp.&nbsp;337-348.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLanguage of Body and Body as Language: Religious Thought and Cultural&nbsp;Syncretism\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Religi\u00f3n in New Spain<\/em>. Edited by Susan Schroeder and&nbsp;Stafford Poole. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHonor, familia y violencia en M\u00e9xico.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>Gozos y sufrimientos en la&nbsp;historia de M\u00e9xico<\/em>. Edited by Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru and Ver\u00f3nica&nbsp;Z\u00e1rate Toscazo. (Mexico City: El Colegio de M\u00e9xico and Instituto de&nbsp;Investigaciones Dr. Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Luis Mora, 2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLos insultos en la Nueva Espa\u00f1a en el siglo XVIII\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Historia de la&nbsp;vida cotidiana en M\u00e9xico III El siglo XVIII: entre tradici\u00f3n y cambio<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;edited by Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (Mexico City: El Colegio de M\u00e9xico and&nbsp;Fondo de Cultura Econ\u00f3mico, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLatin America and the Caribbean\u201d in<em>&nbsp;A Companion to Gender Histor<\/em>y&nbsp;edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Oxford: Blackwell Books, 2004) 477-491.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMira lo que hace el diablo: The Devil in Mexican Popular Culture, 1750-1856\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Americas<\/em>&nbsp;59, no. 2, (2002), &nbsp;201-219.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cModel Children and Models for Children in Early Mexico\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society<\/em>&nbsp;Edited by Tobias Hecht (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), \u2014 52-72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Supervisions<\/strong><br>\nRachel Beausoleil-Morison, PhD program&nbsp; in ISLACS, A Nation Sings Itself: The Voice and Identity in M\u00fasica Popular Brasileira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate Hallson. M.A. in History. Call the Ticitl: The Ritual of Midwifery in New Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Barrios Giraldo, M.A. in Political Economy program, Memory and NGOs in late 20th century Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine Rivas, Ph.D. in History, \u201cPower, Race, Class and Gender in Colonial Santo Domingo: An Analysis of Spanish<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican Marital Patterns in the Archbishopric of Santo Domingo, 1701-1801.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine McGuire, MA in Public History (co-supervision with John Walsh), \u201c\u201dLiving with the Memory\u201d: The Historical Representation and Public Memory of the 1973 Coup D\u2019\u00e9tat in Chilean Communities in Ottawa and Toronto.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adriana Gouvea, M.A. in Public History, \u201cRepresenting a Difficult Past: Narratives of Slavery at the National Historical Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gillian Gibson, M.A. in History, \u201cBeyond Two Cold War Blocs: Canadian Involvement in the Peruvian Socialist Nexus, 1960-1975.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15826,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Sonya","cu_people_last_name":"Lipsett-Rivera","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[61],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-213","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor &amp; Chair - 18TH-19TH c. 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