Nadia Marin-Guadarrama

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Office: Bolton 351
Tel. (518) 580-5414
E-mail:  nmaringuadar@skidmore.edu 
Office hours: Mondays 11 a.m.-1 p.m. by zoom, Wednesdays 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m. (Bolton Hall 351)

 

 

Nadia Marin-Guadarrama’s research focuses on the study of childhood and motherhood. As a cultural anthropologist and an ethnohistorian, she approaches her studies with an intersectional perspective to understand the structural inequalities experienced by indigenous Mesoamerican communities during colonial and current times. Her interest on such area has driven her to study colonial Nahuatl to reconstruct maternities and childhoods based on religious documents written in Nahuatl by Friars and Nahua scholars during the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries. In current times, she has been exploring the neoliberal repercussions in the life of indigenous mothers and children through the recollection of life histories.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Department of Anthropology State University of New York, University at Albany. 2012. Dissertation: Childrearing in the Discourse of Friars and Nahuas in Early Colonial Central Mexico.
• Masters of Arts, Department of Anthropology State University of New York, University at Albany. 2005. Masters Paper: Women Librarians in Storytime: Identities and Roles in a Book Reading Performance.
• Licenciatura (Bachelors) in Sociology. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales. Toluca, Mexico, 2001. Bachelors Thesis: Women Who Mill Corn: Technology and Domestic Changes in the Daily Life of Mazahua Women; the Case of San Miguel la Labor [Mujeres que Muelen Maíz: Cambios Tecnológicos y Domésticos en la Vida Cotidiana de las Mazahuas, caso San Miguel la Labor].

REGIONAL FOCUS: Mesoamerica

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• Mesoamerica, Colonialism, Language and Culture, Nahuatl, Religion, Feminism, Gender, Childhoods, and Maternities, past and present.

COURSES

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• Anthropology of Childhoods
• Anthropology of Motherhood
• Mexican Cultures

PUBLICATIONS

• (Forthcoming) Sermonario Sahagún–Escalona Ms. 1482 de la Biblioteca Nacional de México. Ed. Berenice Alcántara Rojas, transcription, translation, introductory studies and notes by Berenice Alcántara Rojas, Mario Alberto Sánchez Aguilera, Juan Carlos Torres López, Lidia Ernestina Gómez García, Bérénice Gaillemin, Danièle Dehouve, Louise M. Burkhart, Silvia Salgado Ruelas, Tesiu Rosas, Xelhuantzi, Ben Leeming, Nadia Marín Guadarrama, Alejandra Dávila y María de Jesús Ruíz Orihuela. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• Marin Guadarrama, Nadia. 2022. Los Rituales de Bebés en Textos en Lengua Náhuatl: Espacios de Negociación Colonial [Baby rituals in Nahuatl Texts: Spaces for Colonial Negotiation]. In Vestigios Manuscritos de Una Nueva Cristiandad, edited by Berenice Alcantara Rojas, Mario Sánchez Aguilera and Tesiu Rojas Xelhuantzi. (pp: 61-84). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• Vizcarra Bordi, Ivonne and Nadia Marin-Guadarrama. 2014. Maternidad y Femineidad Mazahua: un Binomio en Debate (Mazahua Maternity and Femineity: A Binomial in Debate). In La Feminización del Campo Mexicano en el Siglo XXI: Localismos Transnacionalismos y Protagonismos [Feminization in the Mexican Rural Areas during the XXI Century: Transnationalisms and Protagonisms]. Ivonne Vizcarra Bordi, ed. Pp. 97-118. Mexico: Siglo XXI-UAEM.
• Vizcarra Bordi, Ivonne and Nadia Marin-Guadarrama. 2013. La Obesidad en la Resignificación de Identidades Infantiles Indígenas en Edad Escolar en México: el Caso de los Pueblos Mazahua y Otomí [Obesity in the Redefinition of Identities Among the School-Age Indigenous Children in Mexico: The Case of Mazahua and Otomi People] Perspectiva 31(3): 777-809.
• Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. 2012. La Crianza Infantil en los Discursos Coloniales Indígenas en el México Central [Childrearing in Indigenous Colonial Discourses of Central Mexico]. Ra Ximhai 8(3): 65-87.
• Vizcarra Bordi, Ivonne and Nadia Marin-Guadarrama. 2006. Las Niñas a la Casa y los Niños a la Milpa. La Construcción Social de la Infancia Mazahua [Girls stay Home and Boys go to the Cornfield: the Social Construction of a Mazahua Childhood]. Convergencia 13(40): 39-67.
• Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. 1998. La Tradición de la Danza del Tzi Marekú y su Rescate. [The Tzi Marekú Dance and its Rescue]. In Danzas Tradicionales: ¿Actualidad u Obsolescencia? Eduardo A. Sandoval Forero and Marcelino Castillo Nechar, eds. Pp. 119-126. Toluca: UAEM.

OPEN ACCESS PROJECTS

• Passion Plays of Eighteen Century.Louise Burkhart (PI), Daniel Mosquera (PI), Abelardo de la Cruz, Rebecca Dufendach and Nadia Marin-Guadarrama.
• Sermones en Mexicano. Catalogación, Estudio y Traducción de Sermones en Lengua Náhuatl del Siglo XVI de la Biblioteca Nacional de México. Berenice Alcántara Rojas (PI), Mario Alberto Sánchez Aguilera, Juan Carlos Torres López, Lidia Ernestina Gómez García, Bérénice Gaillemin, Danièle Dehouve, Louise M. Burkhart, Silvia Salgado Ruelas, Tesiu Rosas, Xelhuantzi, Ben Leeming, Nadia Marín Guadarrama, Alejandra Dávila y María de Jesús Ruíz Orihuela.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

• NEH Research Grant for the project Passion Plays of Eighteen Century. Louise Burkhart (PI), Daniel Mosquera (PI), Abelardo de la Cruz, Rebecca Dufendach and Nadia Marin-Guadarrama. University at Albany, State University of New York.
• 2018-2020 Mexican Government Grant for the research project Sermones en Mexicano. Catalogación, Estudio y Edición de Sermones en Lengua Náhuatl del Siglo XVI de la Biblioteca Nacional de México [Sermons in Mexicano. Cataloging, Study, and Edition of Sermons in Nahuatl Language of the XVI century held at the Mexican National Library]. Berenice Alcántara Rojas (PI). Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. UNAM-PAPIIT: IN401018.
• 2010-2011 Grant for new full time Assistant Professors. PROMEP-SEP, Secretary of Education, Mexican Government.
• 2007 Ethnohistory Travel Grant, American Society for Ethnohistory. Tulsa, Oklahoma November 7, 8, 9 and 10.
• 2007 DeCormier Award. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies. State University of New York at Albany.
• 2006 First Encounter Award. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies. State University of New York at Albany.
• 2003-2009. Mexican Government Scholarship to Pursue Graduate Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
• 2002 National Prize for the Best Bachelor Thesis in Gender Studies. Institute for Women of the State of Mexico, Mexico.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP

• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (AAA)
• Association of Nahuatl Scholars
• American Society for Ethnohistory

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

• Spanish, English, Nahuatl from Colonial times (70%)