Hannah R. Abrahamson is assistant professor of Latin American History at College of the Holy Cross where she teaches courses on early modern Latin America, Indigenous history, and histories of gender and sexuality. She earned her PhD from Emory University in 2022, which received dissertation awards from the Latin American Studies Association and the New England Council of Latin American Studies as well as a post-doctoral prize from the Conference on Latin American History. Her research interests include household dynamics, gendered labor structures, and bondage in the Atlantic World. She accepted postdoctoral and residential fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, the Omohundro Institute, and the John Carter Brown Library for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 academic years.

Within her recent publications, the following articles stand out:

Abrahamson, Hannah R. “Transcription of the Paylist (1577)” in Return to La Tama: Teresa Martín, Luisa Méndez, and the Méndez Cancio Inquiry (1600), eds. Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley, forthcoming with University Press of Kentucky, 2025.

Abrahamson, Hannah R. “En la tinta del vencedor: la representación de la mujer indígena en las crónicas de Indias de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda y Fray Bartolomé de las Casas.” Chasqui  47, no. 1 (2018): 51-67.