Latin America

Byron studies early modern European visual culture, with particular interest in the history of science and the history of Atlantic colonialism.

• Regions: Atlantic World; Caribbean; Europe; Latin America; North America
• Times: 15th to 17th centuries
• Themes: Colonialism; Folklore; History of Art and Architecture; History of the Body; History of Empire; History of Gender and Sexuality...

• Regions: Latin America, Europe
• Times: 16th to 20th centuries
• Themes: History of Science, History of the Book, Intellectual History, Literacy and Writing Systems

Manny Medrano is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Harvard, where he examines pre...

Sarah is a PhD candidate in art history and architecture at Harvard University. Her work focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art and environmental history, with a particular interest the relationship between bodies, landscapes...

Kevin is a PhD student in Latin American History. His research centers on how notions of human difference –– especially those anchored in ideas about race –– were used to define the boundaries between “us” and “them” in the eighteenth- and nineteenth...

Region: Atlantic World; Caribbean; Latin America
Time: 17th Century; 18th Century
Theme: Colonialism; Social History

Noga Marmor is studying the history of royal slavery in the Spanish empire. The Spanish crown owned enslaved individuals across its American...

• Region: Atlantic World; Iberia; Latin America
• Time: 16th Century; 17th Century
• Theme: Colonialism; Cultural History; History of Empire
  
  Born and raised in Bolivia, Adriana earned a B.A. in Spanish Literature and Latin American Studies from Grinnell...

• Region: Atlantic World; Europe; Iberia; Latin America
• Time: 16th Century; 17th Century
• Theme: Cultural History; History of Empire; Intellectual History
  
  Sergio Leos studies the shifting intellectual perspectives of early modern Europe, especially...

Research Interests: Fables, framed stories and wisdom literature in the Middle Ages. I am also interested in the history of Medieval Iberia in general and the history and theories of translation. I have also been studying the representation of non-human...

• Region: Iberia; Latin America
• Time: 14th century; 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century
• Theme: Colonialism; History of Empire; History of Gender and Sexuality; History of Religion; History of the Book; Maritime Humanities; Luso...