Martin Austin Nesvig is a historian and Professor of History at the University of Miami, recognized for his scholarship on colonial Mexico and the cultural, intellectual, and religious dynamics of the early modern Spanish world. A fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he has authored five books, including Ideology and Inquisition: The World of the Censors in Early Mexico (2009), which explores the role of censorship and orthodoxy, and Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain (2018), which examines the complexities of authority and belief in colonial society. His research has contributed significantly to the study of power, religion, and heterodoxy in Latin American history.