Providence- John Carter Brown Library

I am spending the Fall 2011 semester at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI on a N.E.H. Fellowship.

European History Quarterly 41: 3 (2011)

I am pleased to announce that a special issue of European History Quarterly, which I co-edited with Matthew Brown of the University of Bristol, has been published. The theme of the issue is "Europe and Latin America in the 1820s" and it contains a sampling of the essays emerging from the "Re-thinking the 1820s" Symposium held at Trinity College, Cambridge in May 2009.

History Today

I'm very excited that my article on early 19th-century Luso-Brazilian history has been published in the June 2011 issue of History Today. I enjoyed writing the piece and I had the good fortune of giving an early version of it in February as a public lecture at Wesleyan University, my alma mater. The article in History Today is entitled "Empire of Exceptions: The Making of Modern Brazil".

Baltimore

I've just moved to Baltimore to take up a job in the Department of History at The Johns Hopkins University.

I am teaching two courses this semester. The first is a survey course on the Portuguese and Spanish empires in the early modern period (roughly, 1400-1800). The second is a seminar on late eighteenth-century European and Atlantic history.

2 new publications

It has been a busy yet enjoyable summer in Cambridge, MA. Two of my pieces were published in the last month or so. The first is a review of J.R. McNeill's Mosquito Empires which appeared in the T.L.S. The second is an article concerning Portuguese debates on empire after the independence of Brazil (covering the period 1820-1850). This article may be found in the Fall 2011 issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

Enlightened Reform volume profiled in the Harvard Gazette

I'm delighted to report that the volume I recently edited, Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830 (Ashgate, Dec. 2009), was profiled in the Harvard Gazette on June 1. The link to the article is available here. The book may be purchased here.