Susan Deans-Smith
Associate Professor — Ph.D., Cambridge University

Contact
- E-mail: sdsmith@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-475-7205
- Office: GAR 3.302
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Biography
Research interests
My research and teaching interests include the history of Colonial Latin America and the Spanish Empire, with particular emphasis on Mexico and the Andean region, society and culture in 17th and 18th century Mexico and the Andes, the visual arts and material culture in Latin America, and comparative colonial history.
Courses taught
Colonial Latin America; Rethinking the Conquest of Mexico, Historiography of Colonial Spanish America, Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution in Colonial Mexico and the Andes
Awards/Honors
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2000-2001
Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1995-96
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1988-1989
Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize, Honorable Mention, 1993, for Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers - the Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992)
Courses
HIS 350L • Rethinking Conquest Mexico
38760 • Spring 2020
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 2.128
Wr
(also listed as LAS 366)
T C 358 • Aztecs And Incas
41375 • Fall 2019
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM CRD 007A
GCWr
LAS 366 • Rethinking Conquest Mexico
39827 • Fall 2018
Meets TH 3:30PM-6:30PM GAR 3.116
IIWr
UGS 302 • When Worlds Collide
62235 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CAL 22
GCWr
ID
HIS 350L • Rethinking Conquest Mexico
39055 • Spring 2018
Meets TH 3:30PM-6:30PM GAR 2.112
IIWr
(also listed as LAS 366)
HIS 386K • Imperial Formations
39775 • Fall 2017
Meets T 12:30PM-3:30PM GAR 1.122
HIS 350L • Visual/Mat Cul: Col Lat Am
39475 • Spring 2017
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM CLA 0.118
IIWr
(also listed as LAS 366)
T C 358 • Aztecs And Incas: 1420-1481
42836 • Fall 2016
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM CRD 007A
GCWr
HIS 386K • Imperial Formations
38855 • Fall 2015
Meets T 3:00PM-6:00PM CLA 0.120
(also listed as LAS 386)
HIS 350L • Visual/Mat Cul: Col Lat Am
38665 • Spring 2015
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM PAR 302
IIWr
(also listed as LAS 366)
HIS 350L • Rethinking Conquest Mexico
39630 • Fall 2014
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 0.132
IIWr
(also listed as LAS 366)
UGS 302 • When Worlds Collide
64165 • Fall 2014
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM MAI 220E
GCWr
ID
HIS 350L • Visual/Mat Cul In Col Latin Am
39915 • Spring 2014
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 1.122
IIWr
(also listed as LAS 366)
HIS 363K • Rel/Conq/Conv Col Mexico/Peru
40075 • Spring 2014
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM GAR 0.132
GC
(also listed as LAS 366, R S 368)
HIS 386K • Imperial Formations
40155 • Fall 2013
Meets T 12:30PM-3:30PM GAR 2.124
(also listed as LAS 386)
T C 357 • Aztecs And Incas: 1420-1821
43465 • Fall 2013
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM CRD 007A
GCWr
HIS 350L • Rethinking Conquest Of Mexico
39525 • Spring 2013
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 0.132
Wr
(also listed as LAS 366)
HIS 363K • Rel/Conq/Conv Col Mexico/Peru
39680 • Spring 2013
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 0.132
GC
(also listed as LAS 366)
HIS 350L • Visual/Mat Cul In Col Latin Am
39365 • Spring 2012
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 0.128
Wr
(also listed as LAS 366)
T C 357 • Aztecs And Incas: 1420-1821
42955 • Spring 2012
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM CRD 007A
Wr
HIS 346K • Colonial Latin America
39315 • Fall 2011
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 1.126
GC
(also listed as LAS 366)
HIS 386K • Imperial Formations
39660 • Fall 2011
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 1.122
HIS 346K • Colonial Latin America
39615 • Spring 2011
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM MEZ 1.120
GC
(also listed as LAS 366)
HIS 350L • Rethinking Conquest Of Mexico
39670 • Spring 2011
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 2.128
Wr
(also listed as LAS 366)
HIS 386K • Historiog Of Col Spanish Amer
40300 • Fall 2009
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 1.122
HIS 386K • Historiog Of Col Spanish Amer
39415 • Spring 2009
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM MEZ 1.104
LAS 366 • Rethink Conquest Of Mexico-W
39985 • Spring 2009
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 0.120
C2
LAS 366 • Colonial Latin America
41085 • Fall 2008
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 3.116
LAS 366 • Forging History Of Mexico-W
41015 • Spring 2008
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 2.108
C2
HIS 386K • Historiog Of Col Spanish Amer
41205 • Fall 2007
Meets M 1:00PM-4:00PM BUR 436A
LAS 366 • Colonial Latin America
41640 • Fall 2007
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM BUR 212
HIS 363K • Conquest/Colonlsm Mex & Peru-W
39810 • Spring 2007
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WRW 113
C2
(also listed as LAS 366)
LAS 366 • Resist/Reb/Rev Col Spn Am-W
40415 • Spring 2007
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM CMA A5.136
C2
HIS 386K • Historiog Of Col Spanish Amer
40885 • Fall 2006
Meets M 1:00PM-4:00PM BUR 436A
HIS 363K • Conquest/Colonlsm In Mex/Peru
38981 • Spring 2006
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM MEZ 2.124
(also listed as LAS 366)
LAS 366 • Colonial Latin America
39630 • Spring 2006
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 109
HIS 386K • Historiog Of Col Spanish Amer
38900 • Fall 2005
Meets T 1:00PM-4:00PM GAR 205
HIS 386K • Independence & Rev In Lat Amer
36065 • Spring 2004
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 107
LAS 366 • Rethink Conquest Of Mexico-W
36530 • Spring 2004
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 107
C2
HIS 386K • Historiog Of Col Spanish Amer
36920 • Fall 2003
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 107
LAS 366 • Latin America Before 1810
37375 • Fall 2003
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 109
HIS 386K • Independence & Rev In Lat Amer
35985 • Spring 2003
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM UTC 4.120
HIS 386K • Historiog Of Col Spanish Amer
36505 • Fall 2002
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 205
LAS 366 • Latin America Before 1810
36965 • Fall 2002
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GAR 5
HIS 386K • Latin Amer From Col To Neocol
35825 • Spring 2002
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 107
LAS 366 • Resist/Reb/Rev Col Spn Am-W
36275 • Spring 2002
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM GAR 205
C2
HIS 386K • Historiog Of Col Spanish Amer
36940 • Fall 2001
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 111
LAS 366 • Latin America Before 1810
37395 • Fall 2001
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 7
LAS F382 • Conf Crs In Latin Amer Studies
85715 • Summer 2000
LAS 698A • Thesis
36210 • Spring 2000
Publications
Book
Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers - the Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992).
Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith eds., Race and Classification. The Case of Mexican America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009)
Susan Deans-Smith and Eric Van Young eds., Mexican Soundings: Essays In Honour of David A. Brading (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2007)
Articles
"'A Natural and Voluntary Dependence': The Royal Academy of San Carlos and the Cultural Politics of Art Education in Mexico City, 1786-1797." Bulletin of Latin American Research, (2010)
oSusan Deans-Smith and Ilona Katzew, "Introduction. The Alchemy of Race in Mexican America," in Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith eds., Race and Classification. The Case of Mexican America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009): 1-24
"Dishonor in the Hands of Indians, Spaniards, and Blacks": Painters and the (Racial) Politics of Painting in Early Modern Mexico" in Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith eds., Race and Classification. The Case of Mexican America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009): 43-72
"This Noble and Illustrious Art": Painters and the Politics of Guild Reform in Early Modern Mexico City." In Mexican Soundings: Essays In Honor of David A. Brading, eds., Susan Deans-Smith and Eric Van Young (London: Brookings Institute Press, 2007): 67-98
"Creating the Colonial Subject: Casta Paintings, Curiosities and Collectors in Eighteenth Century Mexico and Spain." Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 14 2 (December) 2005: 169-204
"Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast from the Colonial Period to the Present," in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (MesoAmerica) Vol. II, Part 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000): 274-302
"The Arena of Dispute," in Mexico's New Cultural History ¿Una Lucha Libre? eds. Susan Deans-Smith and Gil Joseph (Duke University Press, 1999): 203-208 (Special Issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review, 79, No. 2)
"Gender, Morality and Work Discipline - the Working Poor, Public Order, and the Colonial State in Eighteenth Century Mexico," in Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico, eds. William H. Beezely, Cheryl E. Martin, and William E. French (Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1994): 47-77
"Culture, Power, and Society in Colonial Mexico," Latin American Research Review 33, No. 1 (1998): 257-277