Jonathan Truitt

Jonathan Truitt is a Professor of Latin American History and Chair of the Center for Learning through Games and Simulations at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523–1700 and co-editor of Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World. His research interests focus on the religious interactions of Nahuas and Spaniards in Colonial Mexico City and the use of games as a pedagogical tool, in the past and the present. At Central Michigan University he teaches courses on Latin American history, world history, and game design.