Holler, Dr. Jacqueline
PhD (Emory University); MA, BA (Simon Fraser University)
Biography
Dr. Jacqueline Holler is an an early modern cultural historian who specializes in sixteenth-century New Spain. She is author and co-author of books, chapters, and articles on colonial Latin American history and contemporary gender studies; her primary research interests lie at the juncture of gender, sexuality, emotion, health, and religion.
Her current project on the history of multi-ethnic women’s healing networks and medical knowledge exchange in colonial Mexico (New Spain) between 1530 and 1750 is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2020-2025).
A two-time winner of the ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Teaching Award (2005 and 2019), Dr. Holler teaches fourth-year seminars on Caribbean piracy, childbirth and women's bodies, and the history of masculinity. She also teaches second-year courses on the early modern world, early modern Europe, and colonial Latin America. She supervises graduate students in History, Gender Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and International Studies.
Research and Expertise
- Colonial Latin America
- Colonial Mexico
- Women's and gender history
- Religion, health, and political culture
- Culture
- Gender and Women's Studies
- History
- International Studies
- Religion