Bill Francis Connell
Honors Program - Department of History
Professor
McMurran Hall 329
(757) 594-7362
wconnell@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in History, Tulane University
- MA in History, University of South Carolina
- BA in History, University of South Carolina
Teaching
Latin America, Brazil, Mexico and Atlantic World to 1700
Research
Nahuatl-Speaking indigenous groups in Mexico, Colonial and Pre-colonial government in Mexico Tenochtitlan/Mexico City. Violence and Authority in Mexico
Biography
Professor Connell writes and teaches about Latin American history. He also serves on the Honors and Latin American Studies Faculty at CNU. He is author of After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Government in Mexico City 1524-1730 and numerous articles on similar themes. He served as department chair form 2013-2019.
Selected Accomplishments
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Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2016). De sangre noble y hábiles costumbres”: Etnicidad indígena y gobierno en el Tenochtitlan de don Bartolomé Cortés y Mendoza Axayacatzin. Historica / Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru. -
Book, Scholarly-New
(2011). After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Government in Mexico City, 1524-1730. University of Oklahoma Press. Pages, 330.
- William Connell, 56th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, "“Transformaciones políticas en el Cabildo indígena de México Tenochtitlan, 1562-1646,”," Salamanca, Spain. (2018)
- William Connell, European Social Science and History Conference, "“La familia Dongo” Prosecution and Detective work in a Notorious Murder in Mexico City, 1789," Belfast, UK. (2018)