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HIST 2511 - Rethinking the Archive: Proseminar

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Prof. Kirsten Weld - This seminar provides a critical examination of the documentary and archival forms that lie at the heart of historical knowledge production. Readings span disciplinary boundaries, geographic regions, and time periods.

HIST 13E - History of Modern Mexico

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Prof. Kirsten Weld - This course explores the history of Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the importance of historical approaches to understanding critical phenomena in contemporary Mexican affairs. Topics covered include colonial...

Roberto Rossi

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Roberto Rossi is Associate Professor of Economic History and History of Economic Thought at the University of Salerno (Italy). He obtained his Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Naples (Italy) and M.Phil. in Economics and International...

Valentina Favarò

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Valentina Favarò is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Palermo (Italy). She obtained her PhD from University of Catania (Italy) with a dissertation on La Sicilia e la difesa del Mediterraneo nell’età di Filippo II (2005). She...

María Verónica Secreto

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María Verónica Secreto is an Associate Professor in the history department of the Universidade Federal Fluminense-Brazil. Her research topics include: slavery in Hispanic America and agrarian history and landownership. She is currently developing a new...

Sergio Leos

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Sergio Leos studies the shifting intellectual perspectives of early modern Europe, especially throughout the Iberian Atlantic world of the 16th and 17th centuries. His current research focuses on the ways Europeans interpreted and accommodated the...

Joris van den Tol

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Joris van den Tol is a postdoctoral visiting scholar at Harvard University (2019-2021). His research project is funded through a Rubicon grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He recently defended his PhD on lobbying in...

AFRAMER 219A: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

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Professor Alejandro de la Fuente. This yearlong seminar introduces students to current questions and debates in the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America, from the colonial period to the present. Our seminar answers the call, issued by...

History 1032: A History of Brazil, from Independence to the Present

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Professor Sidney Chalhoub. This course will analyze major themes in the social and political history of Brazil from Independence (1822) to the present. Themes to be addressed are the following: Independence, colonial legacies and national identity; state...

History 1520: Colonial Latin America

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Professor Tamar Herzog. This course is an introductory survey of colonial Latin American history, spanning the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Organized chronologically and thematically, it will examine developments in Spanish and Portuguese...

AFRAMER 199X: Social Revolutions in Latin America

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Professor Alejandro de la Fuente. This course seeks to explain why social revolutions have taken place in Latin America and analyzes their impact on the region. The objective is for students to gain a critical understanding of the origins, development...

History 1513: History of Modern Latin America

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Professor Kirsten Weld. This course surveys Latin America from its 19th-century independence movements through the present day. How did the powerful legacies of European colonialism, and the neocolonial economic order that emerged to replace it, shape the...