Ben Leeming

Ben Leeming is Chair of History and the John B. Jarzavek Teaching Chair at The Rivers School where he has been a member of the faculty since 1996. Since completing his Ph.D. in anthropology, Leeming is also a practicing ethnohistorian whose independent scholarship focuses on early colonial Mexico, and the missionary Nahuatl writings of Franciscans and Nahuas who produced the earliest translations of Christianity in the Americas. In 2020, Leeming was awarded an NEH Fellowship to translate an early collection of Nahuatl sermons written in the 1540s by a team of Nahua scholars under the direction of the eminent Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún.