Assistant Professor, Department of History
PhD, Rutgers University
MA, Trent University
BA, York University
Precolonial and Early Colonial History of Mesoamerica
Latin American History
Global Comparative History
Urban History
History of Emotions
Books:
Five Nahuatl Songs About the Fall of Tenochtitlan from the Cantares Mexicanos. Dumbarton Oaks Publications, Trustees for Harvard, forthcoming.
Nahua Singers: Celebrating an Indigenous Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Cambridge University Press, in press.
Chapters, Articles, and Essays:
“The ‘Water Pouring Song’ and Indigenous Social Protest in Sixteenth-Century Mexico” Colonial Latin America Review 34 (1 or 2): Winter or Spring 2026: ###-###.
“Quecholcohuatzin: The Politics of Being a Drummer During the Aztec Empire” in The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America. 3rd Edition. Edited Contract by Cameron D. Jones and Kenneth J. Andrien. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
“A Fish Song” in After the Broken Spears: The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest, Eds. Camilla Townsend and Joshua Anthony. Oxford University Press, 2025.
“Interdisciplinarity, Accessibility, and Dealing with Change in Colonial Mesoamerica” Latin American Research Review 59 (2): June 2024: 514-525.
“Hernán Cortés” in Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies, Ed. Ben Vinson. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Grants:
University Grants Committee - Early Career Scheme Grant (2025-28) for Peter Sorensen (PI), Nahua Singers: Celebrating an Indigenous Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico City ($687 000 HKD)