Rate My Professor Mark Lentz

Lentz's publications include the monograph Murder in Merida, 1792: Violence, Factions, and the Law (University of New Mexico Press, 2018) and forthcoming works such as From Indigenous Interpreters to Creole Control: Race, Translation, and Exclusion in Yucatan, 1560-1633 (University of Nebraska Press, 2025) and a chapter "The Prehispanic and Colonial Exchange of Perishable Goods in and through the Northern Transversal Strip: Achiote, Cacao, Salt, and Exotic Feathers" in Living Between Worlds (University of Alabama Press, 2025). His articles, including “Castas, Creoles, and the Rise of a Maya Lingua Franca in Eighteenth-Century Yucatan” (Hispanic American Historical Review, 2017), earned the 2018 RMCLAS Best Article Prize; an article on creole and African-descent fluency and literacy in indigenous languages also received recognition. Recent publications feature “The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the ‘Account of the Things of Yucatan’” (HAHR, 2025) and “Where Have All the Archives Gone? Yucatán’s Missing and Mobile Municipal Archives” (Anglia, 2024). He has contributed book reviews to American Historical Review and HAHR. Awards include the Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor Research Grant (2024), R. David Parsons Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library (2015-2016), Fulbright Graduate Fellowship in Spain (2005-2006), and a Mellon Foundation fellowship at the Vatican Film Library (2017). Lentz participated in two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes (2012, 2013) and delivers presentations at conferences such as the Society of Early Americanists (2023), American Society for Ethnohistory (2022), and public lectures at Orem Rotary Club and Snow College (2025). He teaches courses including HIST 2050G: Modern Latin America and HIST 4990: Senior Research Thesis Writing Component.