Nadia Marin-Guadarrama
PhD, University at Albany
About
Before joining the Africana, Latin America, Caribbean, and Latinx Department at UAlbany, Dr. Nadia Marin-Guadarrama was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Skidmore College and an Associate professor at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. She did her PhD in Anthropology at the University at Albany and completed her doctorate work in 2012.
Professor Marin-Guadarrama’s research focuses on the study of childhood and motherhood. As a cultural anthropologist and an ethnohistorian, she approaches her studies with a feminist intersectional perspective to understand the structural inequalities experienced by indigenous communities during colonial and current times. Her interest on such area has driven her to reconstruct maternities and childhoods based on the translation of religious documents written in Nahuatl by Friars and Nahua scholars during the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries.
In current times, she has brought her interest on the study of indigenous mothers and children in central Mexico about topics on Mazahua mothers and health, indigenous child obesity and children’s indigenous identities. Experiencing motherhood and moving to the United States also made her expand her research to the Latinx communities focusing on dance and healing as instruments of migrant Mexican mothers to ensure the survival of their children.
Research Interests
- Latinx Communities
- Mesoamerica
- Colonialism
- Nahuatl
- Spirituality
- Healing
- Dance
- Feminisms
- Gender
- Ethnohistory
- Ethnography
- Autoethnography
Grants/Funding
Passion Plays of Eighteen Century. Louise Burkhart (PI), Daniel Mosquera (PI), Abelardo de la Cruz, Rebecca Dufendach and Nadia Marin-Guadarrama. Sermones en Mexicano. Catalogación, Estudio y Traducción de Sermones en Lengua Náhuatl del Siglo XVI de la Biblioteca Nacional de México. Berenice Alcántara Rojas (PI), Mario Alberto Sánchez Aguilera, Juan Carlos Torres López, Lidia Ernestina Gómez García, Bérénice Gaillemin, Danièle Dehouve, Louise M. Burkhart, Silvia Salgado Ruelas, Tesiu Rosas, Xelhuantzi, Ben Leeming, Nadia Marín Guadarrama, Alejandra Dávila y María de Jesús Ruíz Orihuela.
Publications
Forthcoming
- Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. Sermonario Sahagún–Escalona Ms. 1482 de la Biblioteca Nacional de México. Edited by Berenice Alcántara Rojas. Transcription, translation, introductory studies and notes by Berenice Alcántara Rojas, Mario Alberto Sánchez Aguilera, Juan Carlos Torres López, Lidia Ernestina Gómez García, Bérénice Gaillemin, Danièle Dehouve, Louise M. Burkhart, Silvia Salgado Ruelas, Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi, Ben Leeming, Nadia Marín-Guadarrama, Alejandra Dávila and María de Jesús Ruíz Orihuela. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
- Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. “The Christianization of the Nahuas and the Nahuatlization of Christianity.” In Resisting Coloniality: The Liberating Story of Christianity in Latin America, edited by Raimundo C. Barreto and Mark A. Lamport. Cascade Books. Expected Summer 2025.
2022
- Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. “Los Rituales de Bebés en Textos en Lengua Náhuatl: Espacios de Negociación Colonial [Baby Rituals in Nahuatl Texts: Spaces for Colonial Negotiation].” In Vestigios Manuscritos de Una Nueva Cristiandad, edited by Berenice Alcántara Rojas, Mario Sánchez Aguilera and Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi, pp. 61–84. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
2014
- Vizcarra Bordi, Ivonne and Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. “Maternidad y Femineidad Mazahua: un Binomio en Debate [Mazahua Maternity and Femininity: A Binomial in Debate].” In La Feminización del Campo Mexicano en el Siglo XXI: Localismos, Transnacionalismos y Protagonismos, edited by Ivonne Vizcarra Bordi, pp. 97–118. Mexico: Siglo XXI-UAEM.
2013
- Vizcarra Bordi, Ivonne and Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. “La Obesidad en la Resignificación de Identidades Infantiles Indígenas en Edad Escolar en México: el Caso de los Pueblos Mazahua y Otomí [Obesity in the Redefinition of Identities Among School-Age Indigenous Children in Mexico: The Case of Mazahua and Otomi People].” Perspectiva, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 777–809.
2012
- Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. “La Crianza Infantil en los Discursos Coloniales Indígenas en el México Central [Childrearing in Indigenous Colonial Discourses of Central Mexico].” Ra Ximhai, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 65–87.
2006
- Vizcarra Bordi, Ivonne and Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. “Las Niñas a la Casa y los Niños a la Milpa. La Construcción Social de la Infancia Mazahua [Girls Stay Home and Boys Go to the Cornfield: The Social Construction of a Mazahua Childhood].” Convergencia, vol. 13, no. 40, pp. 39–67.
1998
- Marin-Guadarrama, Nadia. “La Tradición de la Danza del Tzi Marekú y su Rescate [The Tzi Marekú Dance and Its Rescue].” In Danzas Tradicionales: ¿Actualidad u Obsolescencia?, edited by Eduardo A. Sandoval Forero and Marcelino Castillo Nechar, pp. 119–126. Toluca: UAEM.
Instruction & Advising
Courses
- Culture and Power in the Americas
- Ethnology of Mesoamerica
- Maternities in the Americas
- Dance in the Americas
- Latina/o Seminar
- Research Experience in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Additional Information
Awards & Honors
- NEH Research Grant
Passion Plays of the Eighteenth Century
Louise Burkhart (PI), Daniel Mosquera (PI), Abelardo de la Cruz, Rebecca Dufendach, and Nadia Marin-Guadarrama
University at Albany, State University of New York
2018–2020 - Mexican Government Research Grant
Sermones en Mexicano. Catalogación, Estudio y Edición de Sermones en Lengua Náhuatl del Siglo XVI de la Biblioteca Nacional de México
Berenice Alcántara Rojas (PI)
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
UNAM-PAPIIT: IN401018
2010–2011 - Grant for New Full-Time Assistant Professors
PROMEP-SEP, Secretary of Education, Mexican Government
2007 - Ethnohistory Travel Grant
American Society for Ethnohistory
Tulsa, Oklahoma — November 7–10
2007 - DeCormier Award
Institute for Mesoamerican Studies
State University of New York at Albany
2007 - First Encounter Award
Institute for Mesoamerican Studies
State University of New York at Albany
2006 - Mexican Government Scholarship
Graduate Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York
2003–2009 - National Prize for Best Bachelor Thesis in Gender Studies
Institute for Women of the State of Mexico
2002