Amos Megged is associate professor and Helena Lewin Endowed Chair in Latin American Studies in the Department of General History at the University of Haifa, Israel. Back in the 1980s he began his pursuit of ethnohistory by doing fieldwork in the Chiapas Highlands. Later on, as an ethnohistorian specializing in the social and cultural facets of indigenous societies in Central Mexico, his articles appeared on HAHR, Ethnohistory, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Colonial Latin American Review as well as in Ancient Mesoamerica and in History and Anthropology. He also authored Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica (Cambridge University Press 2010), and co-edited Mesoamerican Memory (University of Oklahoma Press 2012), and his most recent book, Rituals and Sisterhoods, Single Women’s Households in Mexico, 1560-1750 has just come out with the University Press of Colorado. Megged is currently serving as a member of the Editorial Board of Ethnohistory.
Contact
email: megged@research.haifa.ac.il
Office: Eshkol bldg., floor 13, room 1305
Office phone:04-8249487
Personal website: https://haifa.academia.edu/AmosMegged
Teaching (2019-2021):
- The Conceptualization of Life and Death in World Cultures
- Conquest and Christianization in the New World: The Historiographical Breakthrough
- Human Trafficking from Ancient Times to the 21st Century
- The Conceptualization of Life and Death in World Cultures
- Social Memory: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century