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Camilla Townsend

Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University

Camilla Townsend is the author of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford, 2019), among other books. She teaches Native American history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her research in Nahuatl-language sources has garnered numerous awards, including a Guggenheim and a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Written by Camilla Townsend