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Peter Christian Bjorndahl Sorensen is an Assistant Professor at the History Department in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Hong Kong Baptist University. He held an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wolf Humanities Center, at the University of Pennsylvania in 2022-23, received his PhD from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2022, and won the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Research Fellowship in 2017-18.
Research Interests
His work focuses on sixteenth-century Mexico City and the intellectual and cultural history of the city’s Nahua residents. His work contextualizes a collection of sixteenth-century Nahuatl song lyrics, often referred to as the Cantares Mexicanos, with archival research and work with rare and published colonial manuscripts. Dr. Sorensen is currently working on a book of translations with commentaries of Nahuatl language songs titled Nahuatl Songs About the Fall of Tenochtitlan from the Cantares Mexicanos (Dumbarton Oaks, under contract), and converting his Phd dissertation into a monograph, tentatively titled Nahua Singers: Celebrating an Indigenous Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico City.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, History, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Award Date: 15 May 2022
Master, History, Trent University
Award Date: 17 Jan 2012
Bachelor, History, Minor in Classical Studies
Award Date: 15 Jun 2007
Keywords
- F1201 Latin America (General)
- Colonial Mexico
- Mexico City
- Tenochtitlan
- Performance
- Precolombian
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Projects
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Nahua Singers: Celebrating an Indigenous Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico City
SORENSEN, P. B. (PI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Research project
Research Output
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[Book Review] The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions
Sorensen, P. C. B., Feb 2024, In: HAHR - Hispanic American Historical Review. 104, 1, p. 118-119 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Interdisciplinarity, Accessibility, and Working with Change in Colonial Mesoamerica
Sorensen, P. B., Jun 2024, In: Latin American Research Review. 59, 2, p. 514-525 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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[Book Review] Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices
Sorensen, P. C. B., Feb 2023, In: HAHR - Hispanic American Historical Review. 103, 1, p. 159-161 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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"I Am A Singer, I Remember the Lords": History in the Sixteenth-Century Aztec Cantares
Sorensen, P. C. B., May 2022, 510 p. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.Research output: Other contribution
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Hernán Cortés
Sorensen, P., 22 Apr 2020, Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review