Assistant Professor of History, recently returned from the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, where he served as chair and discussant on the panel "Uprisings on the Mexican Periphery in the Twentieth Century" and presented his own paper entitled "Visions of Fray Juan Baptista Moya and the Hot Country of Guerrero, Mexico: A Spiritual Ecology of Colonialism." The paper came out of his recent work with colonial Augustinian hagiography, and was awarded the conference prize for best paper on Latin American or African history.

Assistant Professor of History, recently presented a working paper on colonial mercury mines in New Spain at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Fisher is a faculty fellow at the Center for the 2006-07 academic year.

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