The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute American Origins Seminar will host a meeting with Dana Velasco Murillo, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, on October 18, 2025.

Professor Murillo is a social and ethnohistorian of early modern Latin America. Her research focuses on recovering the histories of the non-elite groups of colonial Mexico's northern silver mining district, especially native people and women. Her current book project, The Chichimeca Arc: War, Peace, and Resettlement in America's First Borderlands, 1546-1616, recovers the history of nomadic indigenous peoples in the development and consolidation of New Spain's sixteenth-century empire. Her EMSI seminar paper is titled "Service and Circulation: The Chichimeca Diaspora (New Spain 1570-1616)."

RSVP by October 10 to receive the pre-circulated readings for this seminar. 

All EMSI events are free and open to the public.

This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.