» Faculty

• Richard B. Barnett
  (Associate Professor, Early Modern South Asia)
  State and society in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan. Recent publication: Rethinking Early Modern India (ed.) (Manohar, 2002). Monograph in preparation: South India Between Empires: State, Culture and Identity in Hyderabad, 1748-1803
• Roquinaldo Ferreira
  (Associate Professor, Colonial Brazil, Atlantic World, Early Modern Africa)
  Colonial Brazil: early Portuguese contacts with indigenous societies, indigenous and African slavery, transatlantic slave trade, African culture, trading networks between Brazil and India (Carreira da India). Atlantic World: early plantation system in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the US; coastal societies in Africa (Angola and the Bight of Benin) and their social and cultural interaction with Brazil. I am at work on a book on the development of Atlantic slaving in Angola in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Additional book length projects include a social history of abolitionism (Africa and Brazil) in the nineteenth century and a social History of the city of Luanda, Angola.
• Paul D. Halliday
  (Associate Professor, British, Imperial, and Legal History)
  I am currently finishing work on a new book, The Liberty of the Subject: Habeas Corpus in England and Empire (forthcoming, 2010).
• Joseph C. Miller
  (T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor - Africa, Slave Trade, Atlantic)
  African history, slavery and slave trading world-wide, Atlantic history, and historical epistemologies. Current focus on a book-length essay reinterpreting the study of "slavery as an institution" as historicized strategies of "slaving" that have animated processes recurrent throughout the history of the world.
• Duane J. Osheim
  (Professor, Early Modern Europe)
  Responses to epidemic disease in Renaissance Italy. Recent Publication: Chronicling History: Chroniclers and Historians in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Penn State, 2008.)
• Brian P. Owensby
  (Professor, Latin America)
  Law and litigation among Indians and slaves in 17th-century Mexico. Recent publication: Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, 2008).
• Erin Kathleen Rowe
  (Professor, Spain)
  Saints, politics, and gender in early modern Spain and the Mediterranean. My current projects include a book manuscript, "Saint and Nation: Teresa of Avila, Santiago, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain.
• Alison Weber
  (Professor of Spanish)
  Early modern Catholicism, the Spanish Inquisition, mysticism, Spanish Renaissance and Baroque literature. Forthcoming publication: Teaching Teresa of Avila and the Spanish Mystics, ed. Alison Weber (Modern Language Association of America). I am working on a monograph on the culture of the miraculous in Spain.

» Graduate Students

• Brian C. Dudley
  (Graduate Student, ABD, Early Modern Europe)
  Religion and parish politics in 17th-century England
• Jason E. Eldred
  (PhD Candidate, Early Modern Europe)
  Dissertation Entitled: "Spain in the English Imagination, 1603-1662" which examines how the Spanish Empire was used to frame English imperial, economic, and political debates during a period of intense change and conflict in English history.