Biography
Dr. Amanda Summers is the visiting assistant professor of Latin American history at Oberlin College. Her research focuses on sixteenth and seventeenth century Latin America and the Caribbean, the Spanish Inquisition, sex and gender, the body and emotions, and incarceration. She earned her PhD at Temple University and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Tulsa and Queen’s University.
Her publications include “Por Haver Puesto Manos Violentas: An Account of Violence during a Mass in Coyoacan, 1629” in The New American Antiquarian and “Sex Magic, Sex Work: The Gendered Labor of Maria de Rivera and Isabel de Montoya in Puebla, Mexico in the Mid-Seventeenth Century” in Histories of Sex Around the World from Routledge. She has forthcoming articles on sex work, magic, Afro-Caribbean religiosity, and heretical criminality. Her forthcoming book based on her dissertation, Controlling Imperial Bodies:
Inquisition, Incarceration, and Gendered Violence, 1580-1650 examines the use of the Inquisition prisons across the Iberian Atlantic as a form of politically motivated early modern mass incarceration through the embodied experiences of the incarcerated populations.
