Byron Hamann

Clark Fellow

Fall 2026-2027

Byron Ellsworth Hamann received a dual PhD in anthropology and history from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on art and writing in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica and the connections linking the Americas and Europe in the early modern Mediterratlantic world. An editor emeritus of Grey Room, he is author of The Translations of Nebrija: Language, Culture, and Circulation in the Early Modern World (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015); Bad Christians, New Spains: Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World (Routledge, 2020); The Invention of the Colonial Americas Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies 1781–1844 (Getty Research Institute, 2022); the just-drafted At the Butterfly House: Nahua Ambassadors in the Ruins of Rome, 1529; and coeditor (with Felipe Rojas and Benjamin Anderson) of Otros pasados: Ontologías alternativas y el estudo de lo que ha sido (Universidad de los Andes, 2022). At the Clark, he will be writing on a central Mexican pictorial conquest narrative, the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, and its remediations between the 1530s and 2012.