Nancy Farriss

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Nancy Marguerite Farriss (born May 23, 1938) is an American historian who is professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.

Life

Nancy Marguerite Farriss was born on May 23, 1938. She specializes in the colonial history of Mexico, and completed her doctorate from University College London in 1965, after she earned a B.A. at Barnard College. This was followed by brief posts at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. In 1971 she was appointed as Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and continued there for the rest of her career, becoming Annenberg Professor of History in 1990.{{Cite web |url=http://www.history.upenn.edu/ethno/farriss.html |title=Ethnohistory--Nancy Farriss |access-date=2010-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617022253/http://www.history.upenn.edu/ethno/farriss.html |archive-date=2010-06-17 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|last=Farriss|first=Nancy M.|title=Guide to the Nancy M. Farris, 1938 Papers 1959–1990|url=http://dev.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/farrissnm.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321035441/http://dev.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/farrissnm.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 March 2014|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|accessdate=21 March 2014}} She is now professor emerita.

Awards

1983 Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/4392-nancy-m-farriss |title=Nancy M. Farriss - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2010-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604010619/http://www.gf.org/fellows/4392-nancy-m-farriss |archive-date=2011-06-04 |url-status=dead }}
1985 Beveridge Award for Maya society under colonial rule: The collective enterprise of survival
1986 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

Ecclesiastical immunity in new Spain 1760–1815 1965
Crown and clergy in colonial Mexico, 1759–1821: the crisis of ecclesiastical privilege, Athlone Press, 1968
{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/mayasocietyunder00farr| url-access=registration| quote=Nancy Farriss.| title=Maya society under colonial rule: the collective enterprise of survival| publisher=Princeton University Press| year= 1984| isbn= 978-0-691-10158-3 }}