Jonathan Truitt is an associate professor of Latin American history and chair of the Institute for Simulations and Games at Central Michigan University. Truitt focuses on indigenous and European relations in colonial Mexico City. His primary research interests have surrounded the interactions between Nahua people of central Mexico and the Catholic Church during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and other interests include the role of female le​adership in the indigenous community, the adoption and adaptation of European music and theater, the Nahuatl language, and the use of games to teach history.