Sabina Cruz de la Cruz

Sabina Cruz is from Tecomate, Chicontepec, Veracruz, and is a native speaker of the Nahuatl language. She is a Nahuatl language and culture instructor at the University of Los Angeles, California (UCLA). She works at the Institute of Teaching and Ethnological Research of Zacatecas (IDIEZ), where she also participates as an instructor in fall courses in Zacatecas. She graduated from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas with a law degree and holds a master’s in historical education. In 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015, she was a Nahuatl language instructor in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans. From 2015 to 2017, she also worked as a Nahuatl instructor in the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and Collections LLILAS BENSON department at the University of Texas. She is the author of an article in the Ethnohistory journal “Tepahtihquetl pan ce pilalteptzin” translated from Nahuatl to English in 2019. She participated in the translation and research for the Florentine Codex book at the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles. Her research focuses on traditional medicine, and she has participated in ethnohistory conferences and at LASA.