Biography
Dr. Aegis Sluis (she/her/ella) is a professor of Latin American History in the department of History and Anthropology, and affiliate faculty in Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RGSS) and International Studies (IS). She is also currently the Director of Global and Historical Studies at Butler University.
Areas of Research and Scholarship
Dr. Sluis teaches courses on a variety of subjects, but all deal in some way with the interplay of power, culture, identity formations and historical shifts. Her scholarship generally lands at the intersections of gender, space, and the history of the Americas. Her articles can be found in The Americas, the Journal of Urban History, and the Journal of Transnational American Studies (among others). Her first book titled Deco Body/Deco City: Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City (University of Nebraska Press, 2016) looks at how new ideas about femininity and female bodies influenced urban reform in Mexico’s capital city in the 1920s and 1930s. Her new project, Warrior Power: Dreaming, Drugs, Death and the Search for Alternate Spirituality in Mexico during the Sixties and Seventies (tentative title), focuses on the interplay between the books and appeal of Carlos Castaneda, the history of anthropology, New Age sensibilities, popular imaginings of Mexico, and indigenismo.
Upcoming and Current Butler Courses
- HST 101: An Introduction to History & Anthropology
- HST 213/TI 239-HST: Exploring Latin America
- PCA 267-HST: Experiencing the City
- GHS 204: Contact Zones: Latin America
- HST 301: Historiography
- She teaches various topics in History, International Studies, RGSS, as well as directing GALA in 2018 and 2022