Matthew Restall (born 1964) is a historian of Colonial Latin America. He is an ethnohistorian , a Mayanist, a scholar of the conquest, colonization, and the African diaspora in the Americas, and a historian of popular music. Restall has areas of specialization in Yucatán and Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. He is a member of the New Philology school of colonial Mexican history and the founder of a related school, the New Conquest History. He is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University . He is a former president of the American Society for Ethnohistory (2017–18), a former editor of Ethnohistory journal (2007–17), a former senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review (2017–22), editor of the book series Latin American Originals, and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series. He also writes books on the history of popular music.
10-551: Restall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Matthew Restall (born 1964), British and American historian of Latin America and of pop music Emma Restall Orr (born 1965), British neo-druid, animist, priest, poet, and author Greg Restall (born 1969), Australian philosopher Robin L. Restall , (1937-2023) British ornithologist, philatelist, painter, and author [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
20-703: A PhD in Latin American History from UCLA in 1992, studying under James Lockhart , and then held teaching positions at universities in Texas and Boston before taking up a tenured post at Penn State. After 9/11 he became a joint US/British citizen. In 2020, Restall was the Richard Greenleaf Distinguished Chair of Latin American Studies at Tulane University. He is a member of the Board of Governors of
30-421: Is a private foundation formed in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowships to professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ability by publishing a significant body of work in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the creative arts, excluding the performing arts. This article about
40-673: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Matthew Restall Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964. He grew up in England, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Japan, and Hong Kong. But he was schooled in England from the age of 8, spending ten boarding-school years first at Marsh Court in Hampshire and then at Wellington College , before going on to receive a BA degree, First Class with Honors, in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986. He earned an MA in 1989 and
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60-630: The 2019 Conference on Latin American History's Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize for best book or article "judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of Indians in Latin America." His newest books are Return to Ixil (with Mark Christensen), The Maya (with Amara Solari), and his first book on popular music, Blue Moves . He is currently writing books on post-pop, on Elton John, on Christopher Columbus, and on early Belize (tentatively titled The Caye ). He has won fellowships from
70-829: The End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse (with Amara Solari, 2011), Latin America in Colonial Times (with Kris Lane, 2011; 2nd edition, 2018), and The Conquistadors (with Felipe Fernández-Armesto , 2012). His book The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan won the Conference on Latin American History's 2009 prize for best book on Mexican history. His recent book, When Montezuma met Cortés ( HarperCollins , January 2018) won
80-713: The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. Since 1995, Restall has published 30 books in seven languages, as well as 80 articles and essays. He appears regularly on TV documentaries, radio shows, and podcasts, discussing the Aztecs, Mayas, Columbus, and the Spanish conquistadors, and the history of rock and pop music. His best-known book is Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2003), which has also been published in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. In 2003, Seven Myths of
90-961: The National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation , the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the John Carter Brown Library , the Library of Congress , and the Capitol Historical Society . His father was the ornithologist Robin Restall, his sister is the neo-druid author Emma Restall Orr , and his spouse is the art historian Amara Solari . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
100-464: The Spanish Conquest was listed as one of the twelve Best History Books of the year by The Economist . An Updated Edition of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest was published in 2021, with an edition in Chinese coming in 2023. His other books include The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 (1997), Maya Conquistador (1998), Invading Guatemala (with Florine Asselbergs, 2007), 2012 and
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