(Jose-Ricardo Aguilar-Gonzalez) 

Ricardo Aguilar is a Mexican PhD student of History, currently working on the history of food in colonial Mexico (New Spain), especially in XVI and XVII centuries at the Department of History at the University of Warwick (UK) under the direction of Prof. Rebecca Earle, where he was awarded the Chancellor’s International Scholarship by the University of Warwick Graduate School. For this research, along with his main sources –‘Relaciones geográficas de Indias’ (geographical records of XVI century New Spain) - Ricardo is also interested in the recounts of the voyages of Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas, as well as on the early modern dictionaries on vernacular languages (be them European or American).

Keywords: History of food, Relaciones geográficas of the Spanish West Indies (C16th), History of science in the Atlantic world, global history of Latin America, Renaissance history and the New World, history of the New Spain, Indigenous nobility, Samuel Purchas, Richard Hakluyt