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 (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Publications, Trustees for Harvard), Forthcoming and Under Contract.

Nahua Singers: Celebrating an Indigenous Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico City (New York City: Cambridge University Press), Forthcoming and Under Contract.

Chapters, Articles, and Essays:                                          

“A Fish Song” in After the Broken Spears: The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest, Eds. Camilla Townsend and Joshua Anthony. New York City: 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. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2020. 

Chapters, Articles, and Essays Under Review:

“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 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), Under Contract and Under Review.

“The Water Pouring Song and Indigenous Social Protests in Mexico City in 1564” Colonial Latin American Review, Under Review.

“Global Colonial Latin America in the East Asian Context” Colonial Latin American Review, Under Review.                                                        

Encyclopedia Entries:

“Hernán Cortés”. In Oxford Bibliographies Online in Latin American Studies, 2020. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0232.

Book Reviews:

“Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited, Ed. By Vitus Huber & John F. Schwaller. Denver: Colorado University Press, 2025.” Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 106, no. 1 :pending page numbers

“The First Asians in the Americas by Diego Javier Luis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024.” Anthropos 120, no. 1: pending page numbers

“The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions, Ed. by Peter B. Villella and Pablo García Loaeza. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022” Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 104, no. 1: 118-119.

“Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs And Practices, By Cheryl Claassen and Laura Ammon. New York City: Cambridge University Press, 2022” - Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 103, no. 1: 159-161.     

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)