Camilla Townsend

Camilla Townsend
Born	(1965-01-29) January 29, 1965
Nationality (legal)	United States
Education	Bryn Mawr College Rutgers University
Known for	History of Native Americans in the United States History of Latin America
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	American history
Institutions	Colgate University Rutgers University
Thesis	Doing a day's business in a new nation: A comparative study of daily economic activity in two early republican port towns. Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland, 1820-1835  (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Samuel L. Baily

Camilla Townsend (born January 29, 1965) is an American historian and Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She specializes in the early history of Native Americans in the United States, as well as in the history of Latin America. In 2010, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Her 2019 book, Fifth Sun, won the 2020 Cundill History Prize.

Selected publications

Books

• Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (Texas, 2000)
• Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (Hill & Wang, 2004)
• Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (New Mexico, 2006); translated Malintzin: Una mujer indígena en la Conquista de México (Ediciones Era, Mexico, 2015)
• American Indian History: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
• Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley (Stanford, 2010)
• Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press, 2019)

External links

• Faculty page