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Professor Few specializes in colonial history in the Maya regions of Guatemala and Mexico with an emphasis on Indigenous perspectives and experiences, writing about medicine and public health, gender and sexuality, environmental history, and human-animal studies. She is Liberal Arts Professor of Latin American History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her books include Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire (with Zeb Tortorici and Adam Warren, 2020; awarded the Teaching Edition Prize in 2021 from The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender) and For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment (2015; awarded honorable mention for the 2016 Bandelier-Lavrin Book Prize for best book in Colonial Latin American History by the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies). She is also the author of Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (2002) and co-editor of Centering Animals in Latin American History (with Zeb Tortorici, 2013).
Professor Few has been a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, the Huntington Library, and the Humanities Institute at Penn State University. She is the past Senior Editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review (2017-2022), and co-founder and past president of The Southwest Seminar: Consortium on Colonial Latin American History.
For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala (University of Arizona Press, 2015).
Centering Animals in Latin American History, Co-editor (with Zeb Tortorici), (Duke University Press, 2013).
“Killing Locusts in Colonial Guatemala,” in Centering Animals in Latin American History, ed. Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici, (Duke University Press, 2013), 62-92.
“Introduction: Writing Animals into Latin American History,” (with Zeb Tortorici) in Centering Animals in Latin American History, ed. Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013), 1-27.
“Circulating Smallpox Knowledge: Guatemalan Doctors, Maya Indians, and Designing Spain’s Smallpox Vaccination Expedition, 1780-1806” British Journal for the History of Science 43:4 (December 2010), 519-537.
“Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala,” in Vollendorf and Kostrun, eds., Gender and Religion in the Atlantic World (University of Toronto Press, 2009), 205-222.
“That Monster of Nature’: Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a ‘Hermaphrodite’ in Late Colonial Guatemala,”Ethnohistory 54:1 (Winter 2007), 159-176.
“Our Lord Entered His Body’: Miraculous Healing and Children’s Bodies in Colonial New Spain.” In Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds., Religion in New Spain: Varieties of Colonial Religious Experience(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), 114-124.
“Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Guatemala,” Ethnohistory 52:4 (fall 2005), 673-687.
Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (University of Texas Press, 2002)
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2018-19.
Honorable Mention, Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize in Colonial Latin American History, for For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala, 2016.
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Interdisciplinary Cluster Fellowship, Summer 2016. For in-person collaboration on book project in process On Cesarean Operations and Fetal Baptism: An Eighteenth-Century Guatemalan Treatise in Historical Perspective, co-authored with Zeb Tortorici and Adam Warren; translated by Nina M. Scott.
University of Arizona, Provost’s Author Support Program, 2015.
Harvard University, Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, January-June 2009.
Research Professorship, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona, 2008-2009.
Newberry Library, Short Term Fellowship for Individual Research, summer 2006.
Huntington Library, Evelyn S. Nation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships, spring 2006.
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship, fall 2005.