William B. Taylor

Sonne Professor Emeritus


Education

Ph.D 1966-69 History, University of Michigan

M.A. 1964-65 History, University of the Americas

B.A. 1960-64 Latin American Studies, Occidental College


Research Field

Latin America


Academic Appointments

1998, Muriel McKevitt Sonne Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

1993–1998, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

1992–93, Commonwealth Professor of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

1982–92, Professor History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

1977–82, Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder

1972–77, Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder

1971–72, Assisant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder

1969–71, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Denver


Representative Publications

Colonial Spanish America: A Sourcebook (with Kenneth Mills), Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Publishers, 1998.

Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. Stanford University Press, 1996.

Violence and Resistance in the Americas: Native Americans and the Legacy of Conquest, co-edited with Franklin Pease G.Y., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Iberian Colonies, New World Societies: Essays in Memory of Charles Gibson, co-edited with Richard L. Garner. State Colelge, PA, Private printing, 1985, 1986.

Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages. Stanford University Press, 1979. Spanish edition, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1987.

Landlord and Peasant in Colonial Oaxaca. Stanford University Press, 1972.