20 September: Ignacio Gallup-Díaz
“Early Modern Panama's Rebel
Slaves:
A New Chronology and Approach”
Ignacio Gallup-Díaz received his Ph.D at Princeton University in 1999, and is Associate Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College. He specializes in the history of the early modern Atlantic World, and teaches courses that explore how European conquest and settlement of the Americas, coupled with the forced migration of Africans and the continued presence of Amerindian communities, led to the evolution of complex societies. His recently published monograph, The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién 1640-1750 (Columbia University Press), examines the interaction between competing European colonizers and Panamá's Kuna people. (The text is published as an electronic book in the Gutenberg-e series of monographs.)
25 October: Neil Safier
“Who Would Defend the Indians
of Quito?
An Ethnographic Polemic in the
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”
Neil Safier is assistant professor of History at the University of Michigan and postdoctoral fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Johns Hopkins University. A historian of early modern transatlantic scientific exploration and exchange, he is currently completing a monograph entitled Itinerant Enlightenment: Geography and Cultural Encounter from Paris to Colonial Peru, under contract with the University of Chicago Press.
November 15: Beth Fowkes
Tobin
“Wampum Belts and Tomahawks
on an Irish Estate: The Collected Exotic Object and the Construction of
Eighteenth-Century Imperial Identities”
Beth Fowkes Tobin, Professor of English at Arizona State University, is the author of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760- 1820 (2005), Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting (1999) and Superintending the Poor: Charitable Ladies and Paternal Landlords in British Fiction, 1770-1860 (1993) as well as numerous articles on British imperial culture. She teaches courses on eighteenth-century British literature, art, and culture. Her current research is on 18th-century collectors of exotic objects.