Hugo Peralta-Ramírez
Biography
I am a first-generation Latino college transfer student from a Mexican migrant working-class family of indigenous heritage.
Research
Indigenous identity, cultural negotiation in light of Spanish colonization, social hierarchy within indigenous communities, inter-ethnic social relations (solidarity and conflict) in New Spain, indigenous labor in colonial Mexico, indigenous religious conversion (syncretism and resistance), indigenous politics under/within Spanish rule, indigenous memory of the “conquest,” indigenous intellectuals, and the categorization and conceptualization of indigenous Mesoamerican peoples within the Atlantic context in both textual and visual sources.
Publications
NON-PEER REVIEWED
FORTHCOMING “From Mexicas to Ancient Aztecs, Classical Nahuas, and Modern Indio/as: Early Modern Criollo/a Constructions and Understandings of Indigenous New Spain,” CSU ScholarWorks (2024).
“Engendering Binaries: The Transhistorical Experiences of Catalina de Erauso,” CSU ScholarWorks (2023).
Awards & Grants
FELLOWSHIPS
UCLA Competitive Edge: Summer Transition Program to the Doctorate (Summer 2024)
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (September 2024 to June 2028)
Cal History PhD Pipeline Program, UC Berkeley (2024)
Center for Renaissance Studies Indigenous Mapping Seminar, Newberry Library (May 2024)
Center for Renaissance Studies Intro to Náhuatl Language Study, Newberry Library (July 2023)
HONORS AND AWARDS
University of California: Los Angeles (UCLA)
Six-Year Departmental Funding Package (September 2024 to June 2030) for doctoral studies in History
California State University: San Marcos (CSUSM)
Outstanding Undergraduate History Major Award 2023-2024, Department of History (May 2024).
Champion for Scholarship and Creative Activities, College of Humanities, Arts and Behavioral and Social Sciences (May 2024).
University Library Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (May 2024) for “From Mexicas to Ancient Aztecs, Classical Nahuas, and Modern Indio/as: Early Modern Criollo/a Constructions and Understandings of Indigenous New Spain,” (ScholarWorks).
Best Undergraduate Paper in Latin American History (March 2024) for “From Mexicas to Ancient Aztecs, Classical Nahuas, and Modern Indios/as,” Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference, University of La Verne.
Undergraduate Research Dissemination Funds (November 2023) for travel to American Historical Association 137th Annual Meeting.
University Library Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (May 2023) for “Engendering Binaries: The Transhistorical Experiences of Catalina de Erauso” (ScholarWorks).
CHABSS Student Success Grant (May 2023) for travel to Center for Renaissance Studies Intro to Náhuatl Language Study at Newberry Library.
MiraCosta College
Honors Navigator of the Year, Honors Program (May 2022) for service.
Conference Presentations
“From Mexicas to Ancient Aztecs, Classical Nahuas, and Modern Indio/as,” panel on “Mexican and Mexican American History,” presented at Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference, University of La Verne (March 2024).
“Early Modern Criollo/a Constructions and Understandings of Indigenous New Spain,” presented at Symposium on Student Research, Creative Activities, & Innovation, California State University: San Marcos (March 2024).
“Imagined Altepemeh: Nahua Societies and Politics in New Spain During the Mid-Sixteenth-Century,” panel on “Colonization, Empire, and Postcolonial Struggle,” presented at the American Historical Association 137th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (January 2024).
“Engendering Binaries: The Transhistorical Experiences of Catalina de Erauso,” panel on “L.G.B.T.Q.+ Topics, 17th and 18th Centuries,” presented at the Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference, California Lutheran University (March 2023).
