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John F. López, Assistant Professor of Art History at UC Davis, spent his eight-month NEH fellowship at the JCB researching and writing The Aquatic Metropolis. This project is a comparative study of Aztec and Spanish flood control practices on Mexico City’s urban form that examines...
The JCB community mourns the loss of one our most treasured friends and benefactors. José “Pepe” Amor y Vásquez was professor emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Brown University and one of the founders of Brown’s Center for Latin American Studies. A preeminent scholar in the...
Congratulations to former fellow Kathryn E. Sampeck (Donald L. Saunders Fellow, 2008-09) on the publication of Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica (University of Texas Press, November 2017), co-edited with Stacey Schwartzkopf. This interdisciplinary anthology reveals how the consumption of seductive ingestibles...
Tess Clifton, J.M. Stuart Fellow, first encountered Los sirgueros de la Virgen sin original pecado (1620) while conducting research for her master's degree during her second year at Brown. This item is the first American novel and the only remaining copy of the text is...
In the 2nd century, Claudius Ptolemy described all that was known in the Roman Empire about the world’s geography in his Geographia. Of the 49 editions of Geographia printed from 1475 to 1730, the JCB has all but two. Thanks to the generous support...
Jaime Marroquín, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University, spent four months as an Associates' Fellow at the JCB researching his current monograph El Peyote y la Virgen: Ethnographic History and Natural Science. This project examines the botanical, medicinal and cultural history of...