The 1767 expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish empire came late for the missionaries in north... more The 1767 expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish empire came late for the missionaries in north-western New Spain. While it came later, it was particularly brutal, extending to nearly two years of imprisonment and forced marches in Mexico, and several more years lingering in places of exile throughout Europe. Out of the 51 missionaries expelled from Sinaloa, Sonora, and California, 21 died en route to exile. Ultimately, the entire order was formally suppressed by the Papacy in 1773. Altogether, the expulsion, exile, and suppression signified the death of a Jesuit identity as a global missionary order, a self-image constructed in over two centuries of work. At a loss for how to reconstitute their lives and maintain bonds to the wider community of fellow evangelists and converts, the former members of the Society looked to the suffering of Jesus, for whom they had once been named. As they had since the beginning of their work, they translated their exile into martyrological terms, t...
The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World
As an early modern enterprise, the Society of Jesus established networks that relayed information... more As an early modern enterprise, the Society of Jesus established networks that relayed information from far-flung missionaries back to superiors in metropolitan centers. At the same time, Jesuits linked to colleagues serving in other locales by sharing letters, maps, and devotional objects that helped forge a worldwide, imagined community. Through these informal means, Jesuits in New Spain developed particularly strong ties to Asia as the colonization of the Philippines and establishment of the Manila Galleons turned their viceroyalty into a transpacific contact zone. Beginning with a sixteenth-century debate over forceful conversion, this chapter traces confrontations and comparisons engendered by this communication. It tracks religious devotion to Japanese martyrs in the Americas to better understand the function of hagiography in colonial contexts. Martyrs also factored into transpacific competition and cooperation, leading Jesuits in Mexico, China, and Spain to connect their pers...
This dissertation tracks Jesuit discourse about suffering in the missions of Northern New Spain f... more This dissertation tracks Jesuit discourse about suffering in the missions of Northern New Spain from the arrival of the first missionaries in the sixteeenth century until their expulsion in the eighteenth. This research project asked why tales of persecution became so prevalent in these borderland contexts and describes how missionaries sanctified their own sacrifices as well as native suffering through martyrological idioms. It argues that in both corporeal and textual forms missionaries were passionate in their efforts to pacify the northern frontier of Mexico. It also correlates colonial martyrologies to longer traditions of redemptive death in the history of Christianity. The belief that sacrifice begets growth reaches back to the biblical writers and church fathers like Jerome and Tertullian. More recently, Talal Asad has argued that “dying to give life” lies at the foundation of western civilization and its capacity for war. This dissertation charts a transitional moment in th...
Higher education has experienced pandemics and economic downturns over its long history. Recent e... more Higher education has experienced pandemics and economic downturns over its long history. Recent events have invited comparisons to small pox scares, worldwide flu epidemics, and other moments of fear for student, faculty, and staff health. Campus leaders are nervously watching the bottom line while students and parents worry and contemplate different modes of learning, deciding whether they want to buy what colleges and universities can offer. Faculty, meanwhile, forged new sorts of relationships with their students during spring semester 2020 and wonder about how this environment might continue going forward. Among many in higher education, there is a sense that something has forever changed. For over a decade, we have talked about the differences between face-to-face and remote classes, debating their relative pedagogical and financial merits. With recent events blurring all forms of instruction into virtual classrooms and online assignments, Facebook pages and websites sprung up ...
... 1972): 48; Alfredo Mirand? and Evangelina Enriquez, "Chicanas in the History of the ... more ... 1972): 48; Alfredo Mirand? and Evangelina Enriquez, "Chicanas in the History of the Southwest," in Introduction to Chicano Studies, 2nd ed., ed. Livie Isauro Duran and H. ... Searching for a 7. Alex Nava's recent article in the JAAR is similarly unhelpful. Arguing that Teresa ...
The 1767 expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish empire came late for the missionaries in north... more The 1767 expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish empire came late for the missionaries in north-western New Spain. While it came later, it was particularly brutal, extending to nearly two years of imprisonment and forced marches in Mexico, and several more years lingering in places of exile throughout Europe. Out of the 51 missionaries expelled from Sinaloa, Sonora, and California, 21 died en route to exile. Ultimately, the entire order was formally suppressed by the Papacy in 1773. Altogether, the expulsion, exile, and suppression signified the death of a Jesuit identity as a global missionary order, a self-image constructed in over two centuries of work. At a loss for how to reconstitute their lives and maintain bonds to the wider community of fellow evangelists and converts, the former members of the Society looked to the suffering of Jesus, for whom they had once been named. As they had since the beginning of their work, they translated their exile into martyrological terms, t...
The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World
As an early modern enterprise, the Society of Jesus established networks that relayed information... more As an early modern enterprise, the Society of Jesus established networks that relayed information from far-flung missionaries back to superiors in metropolitan centers. At the same time, Jesuits linked to colleagues serving in other locales by sharing letters, maps, and devotional objects that helped forge a worldwide, imagined community. Through these informal means, Jesuits in New Spain developed particularly strong ties to Asia as the colonization of the Philippines and establishment of the Manila Galleons turned their viceroyalty into a transpacific contact zone. Beginning with a sixteenth-century debate over forceful conversion, this chapter traces confrontations and comparisons engendered by this communication. It tracks religious devotion to Japanese martyrs in the Americas to better understand the function of hagiography in colonial contexts. Martyrs also factored into transpacific competition and cooperation, leading Jesuits in Mexico, China, and Spain to connect their pers...
This dissertation tracks Jesuit discourse about suffering in the missions of Northern New Spain f... more This dissertation tracks Jesuit discourse about suffering in the missions of Northern New Spain from the arrival of the first missionaries in the sixteeenth century until their expulsion in the eighteenth. This research project asked why tales of persecution became so prevalent in these borderland contexts and describes how missionaries sanctified their own sacrifices as well as native suffering through martyrological idioms. It argues that in both corporeal and textual forms missionaries were passionate in their efforts to pacify the northern frontier of Mexico. It also correlates colonial martyrologies to longer traditions of redemptive death in the history of Christianity. The belief that sacrifice begets growth reaches back to the biblical writers and church fathers like Jerome and Tertullian. More recently, Talal Asad has argued that “dying to give life” lies at the foundation of western civilization and its capacity for war. This dissertation charts a transitional moment in th...
Higher education has experienced pandemics and economic downturns over its long history. Recent e... more Higher education has experienced pandemics and economic downturns over its long history. Recent events have invited comparisons to small pox scares, worldwide flu epidemics, and other moments of fear for student, faculty, and staff health. Campus leaders are nervously watching the bottom line while students and parents worry and contemplate different modes of learning, deciding whether they want to buy what colleges and universities can offer. Faculty, meanwhile, forged new sorts of relationships with their students during spring semester 2020 and wonder about how this environment might continue going forward. Among many in higher education, there is a sense that something has forever changed. For over a decade, we have talked about the differences between face-to-face and remote classes, debating their relative pedagogical and financial merits. With recent events blurring all forms of instruction into virtual classrooms and online assignments, Facebook pages and websites sprung up ...
... 1972): 48; Alfredo Mirand? and Evangelina Enriquez, "Chicanas in the History of the ... more ... 1972): 48; Alfredo Mirand? and Evangelina Enriquez, "Chicanas in the History of the Southwest," in Introduction to Chicano Studies, 2nd ed., ed. Livie Isauro Duran and H. ... Searching for a 7. Alex Nava's recent article in the JAAR is similarly unhelpful. Arguing that Teresa ...
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