Matthew Restall (born 1964) is a historian of Colonial Latin America.[1] He is an ethnohistorian, a Mayanist, a scholar of the conquest, colonization, and the African diaspora in the Americas, and a historian of popular music. Restall has areas of specialization in Yucatán and Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. He is a member of the New Philology school of colonial Mexican history and the founder of a related school, the New Conquest History.[2] [3] He is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a former president of the American Society for Ethnohistory (2017–18), a former editor of Ethnohistory journal (2007–17), a former senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review (2017–22), editor of the book series Latin American Originals, and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series.[4] He also writes books on the history of popular music.
- ^ "Matthew Restall — Department of History". history.la.psu.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ Restall, Matthew (2003). "A History of the New Philology and the New Philology in History". Latin American Research Review. 38:1: 113–134. doi:10.1353/lar.2003.0012. S2CID 145366292.
- ^ Restall, Matthew (2012). "The New Conquest History". History Compass. 10:2 (2): 151–160. doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00822.x.
- ^ "Matthew Restall — Department of History". Pennsylvania State University, Directory. 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.