Book
Awards
2025 Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honor Society) Best First Book Award
2026 Albert L. Sturm Award for Excellence in Research
Select Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “The Baller and the Court: Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón’s Battle with Ololiuhqui and his Courtship of the Mexican Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico” Ethnohistory 71, no. 2 (2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10999165
Polanco, Edward. “Tiçiyotl and Titiçih: Late Postclassic and Early Colonial Nahua Healing, Diagnosis, and Prognosis.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford University Press. Article published October 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.792.
Polanco, Edward Anthony. ““I Am Just a Tiçitl”: Decolonizing Central Mexican Nahua Female Healers, 1535–1635.” Ethnohistory 65, no. 3 (2018): 441-463.doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4451410
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “‘The Chamber of Your Virginity does not have a Price’: The Scientific Construction of the Hymen as an Indicator of Sexual Initiation in Eighteenth-Century Spain.” Footnotes: A Journal of History 1, 2017: 67-88.
Book Chapters
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “They Who Have Stood as Women: The Nahua-Cihuateteoh Reciprocal Preventative Health Relationship in the Postclassic and Early Colonial Valley of Mexico” in Unbounded Bodies, Changing Environments, New Approaches. Edited by Guy Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim. Oxford Press (2026)
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “The Epidemics of Spanish Settler Colonialism.” in Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World. Edited by Lori Jones. Yorkshire,Arc Humanities Press (2025)
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “In the Necklace: The Historia de Tlaxcala’s Colonial Representation of Kuskatan.” In The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Culture. Edited by Nicholas R. Jones, Christina H. Lee, and Dominique E. Polanco (2025)
Digital
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “How to Bring Indigenous Knowledge into Classrooms and Curricula.” Times Higher Education, November 12, 2024
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “Digital Textual Resources at the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico.” H-Net LatAm, April 21, 2024.
Polanco, Edward. Healing Among Nahua Communities https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/health/healing-among-nahua-communities
Polanco, Edward and Perez Garcia, Sixta, I-Collective – A Gathering Basket – Issue 7 – Atul Shukuk and Sinti
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “Oscillating and Depreciating: Early Modern Spanish Views of Unsanctioned Female Healers.” Nursing Clio, January 5, 2021. https://nursingclio.org/2021/01/05/oscillating-and-depreciating-early-modern-spanish-views-of-unsanctioned-female-healers/.
Polanco, Edward Anthony. “Archivo General De La Nación: Mexico’s Black Palace.” H-Net, February 3, 2020. https://netRworks.h-net.org/node/23910/blog/research-corner/5812320/archivo-general-de-la-naci%C3%B3n-mexico%E2%80%99s-black-palace.