Donghoon Lee

I am a Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, specializing in colonial Latin American and Indigenous studies. I received my PhD in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. My research examines Nahua (Aztec) historiography as political thought, asking how historical narratives give conceptual form to questions of sovereignty, law, violence, and collective identity.

My first book project, Politicizing the Past: Nahua Historiography Under Spanish Rule, examines how Indigenous and mestizo historians of colonial Mexico narrated migration, war, conquest, and empire-building as problems of political order and legitimacy. My broader research interests include Indigenous historiography and textuality, political thought, race and ethnicity, and comparative colonialism.