REDEFINING CLASSICS

A historian who specializes in the origins of Mexican Catholicism,
Verónica A. Gutiérrez, MFA, PhD, has spent her career challenging
myths associated with native peoples of the Americas. She currently serves as founding Professor of History at Hildegard College and as founding Director of the Great Books Program en español for the Angelicum Academy, offering online Socratic discussions in Spanish. An award-winning scholar and sought-after speaker, she has delivered a TEDx talk, co-led a faculty development tour to Mexico, provided keynotes in the U.S. and Mexico, and published in English and Spanish. Her current projects include identifying indigenous voices from Latin America that speak into the Great Conversation and writing a children’s chapter book about sixteenth-century Nahua visionary
Juan Diego for Ignatius Press’s popular Vision Series.

On May 11th she will be speaking on “Thucydides in Tlatelolco, Herodotus in Huejotzingo: Classical Voices in and from the Americas.”