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Verónica Gutiérrez, MFA, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3134
Email: vgutierrez@apu.edu
Verónica A. Gutiérrez, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Latin American History. Her areas of expertise include Colonial Mexico, Mesoamerican Cultures, Medieval Castile, Franciscan Spirituality, and the Early Modern Catholic World. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research on Franciscan evangelization of native peoples in 16th-century San Pedro Cholula, Mexico, as well as a grant from Spain’s Ministry of Culture to spend two months at the Archive of the Indies in Sevilla. Gutiérrez has also received funding from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Academy of American Franciscan History, and the Latin American Institute at UCLA.

For her article, “Quetzalcoatl’s Enlightened City: A Close Reading of Bernard Picart’s Engraving of Cholollan/Cholula,” she received the Hubert Herring Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies. Her other publications include “Mesoamerican Religions: Colonial Cultures” in the Encyclopedia of Religion and “A Satellite Community in a Spanish City: The Barrio of Santiago Cholultecapan in Colonial Puebla de los Ángeles.” She has presented her work at various national and international conferences and has lectured at the San Gabriel Mission. In addition to teaching history, Gutiérrez has extensive experience in creative writing classrooms and looks forward to blending her specialties as she develops a diverse set of Latin American course offerings at APU.

Education

Ph.D. – Colonial Mexican History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2012
C.Phil. – Colonial Latin American History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
M.A. – Latin American History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
MFA – Creative Nonfiction, Pennsylvania State University, 2004
B.A. – Creative Writing, University of San Francisco, 2000

Department

  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    • History and Political Science

Expertise

  • Early Modern Catholicism
    The Mendicant Church and the Origins of Mexican Catholicism
  • Latin American History
    Franciscan Evangelization of Native Peoples in 16th-Century Mexico
  • Mesoamerican Cultures
    Native Peoples in Colonial Mexico

Courses Taught

HIST 120 – World Civilizations to 1648
HIST 484 – Historical Themes

Office Hours

M 12:00-1:00pm
F 11:45am-1:45pm

Office Location

Ronald Building, (Azusa East Campus) Room 136C, East Campus

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