Susan Schroeder (born 1939) is an American historian, specializing in theethnohistory ofAztec people of Mexico and in the translation of colonial documents written inNahuatl - especially the chronicles ofChimalpahin. She received her PhD in 1984 from UCLA where she studied Nahuatl and Latin American colonial history withJames Lockhart. She is professor emerita at Tulane University, where she taught from 1999 to 2009, after teaching at Loyola University at Chicago from 1985 to 1999. She received the lifetime achievement award of theAmerican Society for Ethnohistory in 2017.[1][2]
2009.The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism. Editor, with David Cahill. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press.
1998. “The First American Valentine: Nahua Courtship and Other Aspects of Family Structuring in Mesoamerica.”Journal of Family History. 23 (4): 341-354.
1997-2005.Codex Chimalpahin. 6 vols. Translator and editor, with Arthur J. O. Anderson (Vol. 1 and 2), James Lockhart and Doris Namala (Vol. 3), and Anne J. Cruz et al. (vol. 6). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
1992.Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
