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Julia Sarreal, an Associate Professor of Latin American History at Arizona State University, spent two summer months in 2017 at the Library as a Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow. Her current project, “Yerba Mate, Guaraní Consumable, Tool of Empire, and Gaucho Lifeblood” provides a refreshing...
Congratulations to Pablo F. Gómez (2009-10 Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow) on the publication of The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. His book explores how Caribbean people created authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the...
As the academic year drew to a close, we bade farewell to Dan Ruppel, who had been at the JCB since September working on his dissertation, “Probable Histories and Virtual Performances: Festival Books and the Performance of Historiography in Early Modern France.” The J.M. Stuart...
Andrés Reséndez, Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, delivered the 2017 Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture. The Other Slavery, which won the 2017 Bancroft Prize, examines...
A unique collection of nearly 300 books printed by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (ca. 1450-1515) represents the historical vestige of a time before John Carter Brown turned his sights to collecting Americana. Here, Isabel Thornton (Brown class of 2019) translates a passage from a...
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara discussed her book Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island (NYU Press, 2016) as part of the Rhode Island Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project and a program series - centered around the transatlantic slave trade - by the...