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Richard E. Greenleaf
Richard E. Greenleaf (1930-2011) was an eminent scholar of the Mexican Inquisition and former director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.
Born on...view moreRichard E. Greenleaf (1930-2011) was an eminent scholar of the Mexican Inquisition and former director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.
Born on May 6, 1930, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, he attended the University of New Mexico for his BA, MA, and PhD degrees. Greenleaf began his teaching career in 1955 at the University of the Americas in Mexico City, serving as chair of the Department of History and International Studies, the dean of its graduate school, and later academic vice president. He moved to Tulane University, New Orleans in 1969 and became director of the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies the next year.
In 1982, Greenleaf was named the first France V. Scholes Chair of Colonial Latin American History. He built up the interdisciplinary studies of Latin America at Tulane to include a graduate program, valuable library collections, and travel grants for student research.
In 1998 he retired to Albuquerque where he continued to work with graduate students as an adjunct research professor at his alma mater.
Greenleaf served on many editorial boards and received numerous academic honors, notably the Serra Award for Distinguished Scholarship of Colonial Latin American History, the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Award, the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Lifetime Achievement Award, and Silver Medal. He was also honored with the prestigious Mexican National History Award, known as the Sahagún Prize.
Greenleaf’s other major book contributions included The Mexican Inquisition of the Sixteenth Century (1969), Mixtec Religion and Spanish Conquest: The Oaxaca Inquisition Trials, 1544-1547 (1991), and The Roman Catholic Church in Colonial Latin America (1971), an edited collection. Additionally, he was the author of nearly 50 chapters and articles in the areas of his expertise.
He died on November 8, 2011, after many years of living with Parkinson’s Disease.view less