James Marvin Lockhart was a U.S. historian specializing in the history of colonial Latin America.
Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Lockhart attended West Virginia University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was an expert in the study of historical sources in the Nahuatl language and the postcolonial Nahua people. He was a professor in the UCLA Department of History from 1972 until 1994. He was the principal founder of the New Philology, a school of history built on the study of indigenous-language sources from colonial Mexico.
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