Jacqueline Holler

Gender and Women's Studies | International Studies | Religion | Culture | History | Health | Gender, sexuality, emotion, health, religion, violence against women.

Dr. Jacqueline Holler is an an early modern cultural historian who specializes in sixteenth-century New Spain. She is author and co-author of books, chapters, and articles on colonial Latin American history and contemporary gender studies; her primary research interests lie at the juncture of gender, sexuality, emotion, health, and religion. Her current project on the history of multi-ethnic women’s healing networks and medical knowledge exchange in colonial Mexico (New Spain) between 1530 and 1750 is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2020-2025). A two-time winner of the UNBC Teaching Award (2005 and 2019), Dr. Holler teaches fourth-year seminars on Caribbean piracy, childbirth and women's bodies, and the history of masculinity. She also teaches second-year courses on the early modern world, early modern Europe, and colonial Latin America. She supervises graduate students in History, Gender Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and International Studies.