Susan E. Ramírez

Susan E. Ramírez is an American historian and the Neville G. Penrose chair emeritus of history and Latin American studies at Texas Christian University.^[1][2] She has worked in academia for over thirty years, with a focus on colonialism in Latin America. In her 2022 publication, In Praise of the Ancestors, Ramírez makes a study of three native groups (the Kazembes, the Iroquois Confederation, and the Andeans), investigating the formation of historical consciousness and identity in pre-modern societies lacking written records.^[3]