Amanda Joyce Snyder
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Amanda J. Snyder, Ph.D. Florida International University Instructor, Department of History Co-Director Writing in History Tutor Program Instructor, Miami Dade College Department of Social Sciences email: [email protected]
Education
Florida International University: PhD in Atlantic Civilizations, April 2013 University of North Carolina at Wilmington: MA in History, July 2006 Wake Forest University: BA in English and History, cum laude, with departmental Honors, May 2004
Awards and Fellowships
FIU Teaching Writing in History Postdoctoral Fellowship UCLA, Clark Library/Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2014 FIU Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2012-2013 Caird Short-term Fellowship, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK, 2010 FIU Doctoral Evidence Acquisition Fellowship, 2010-2011 North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting Fellowship, 2010 Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos Exchange Fellowship, 2011 FIU Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
Teaching Experience
Instructor: Florida International University Origins of American Civilization, Summer A 2014, Summer 2015 Western Civilization, Spring 2008, Fall 2014 Building Empires: Junior Methods Seminar, Spring 2015
Miami Dade College World History, Summer B 2015
Teaching Assistant: Section Instructor: Western Civilization to 1700: Spring 2006 Western Civilization 1300-1700: Spring 2007, Fall 2007 Western Civilization 1700- present: Summer 2008 American Civilization to 1865: Fall 2006 American Civilization from 1865: Fall 2005, Fall 2009 World Civilization: Spring 2010 Latin American Civilization: Fall 2011
Assistant: Amanda J. Snyder 2 Curriculum vitae
World Civilization to 1700: Spring 2005 Western Civilization, Greece and Rome: Fall 2008, Spring 2009 Greek History upper-division: Summer 2009
Assistant and lecturer Renaissance and Reformation: Summer 2010
America Reads Mentor and tutor: 1998-2000, 2004-2006
Institute for Reading Development Instructor and Curriculum Consultant: 2006
Publications
“Crime and Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean: Forging a new “American” Identity,” Torrid Zones, University of South Carolina Press, under contract.
Pirates, Exiles, and Empire: Crime and Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World, in- progress manuscript
“Scholars’ and Storytellers’ Visions of Juan Ponce de Leon: Two Centuries of Work.” The Voyages of Ponce de Leon: Scholarly Perspectives. Eds. Cusick, James G. and Sherry Johnson. Cocoa, FL: Florida Historical Society Press, 2013.
“Confrontations between English Pirates and Spanish Officials in the Caribbean.” In The Center and Clark Newsletter, no. 59 (Spring 2014). UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. Los Angeles, CA, 2014.
Other publications “The Politics of Piracy: Pirates, Privateers, and the Government of Elizabeth I, 1558- 1588,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Special Collections
Workshops
Organizer : Women in Academia: Balancing Family and Work Paleography Workshop Writing the Proposal
Led: Structuring the Research Paper Integrating Evidence Gordon Rule Guidelines (FL State-Mandated Writing Policies) Teaching Writing: New Classroom Activities The Peer-Review Exercise
Professional Activities Amanda J. Snyder 3 Curriculum vitae
Co-Director and web consultant for FIU Writing in History Tutor Program, 2014-2015 SACS Evaluation Committees Dual Enrollment Mentor, Miami-Dade County Schools Consultant, Boxtales Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA, 2013-2014 Program Committee Assistant, NACBS, 2009, 2010 Co-Editor-in-Chief, Atlantic Millennium, 2007-2010 Department of History Graduate Student Association Vice President, 2008-2010 Department of History Annual Conference Program Committee Chair, 2009-2010 Editor, Proceedings from the 2007 Florida Conference of Historians
Scholarly Presentations and Invited Lectures
“Challenging Imperial Centers and Colonial Peripheries (16th -18th centuries) at European Network in Universal and Global History, Paris, France, September 2014
“Criminality and Identity in the Early Modern Caribbean: Challenges to Traditional Spanish Colonialism” at UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies’ Iberian Globalization in the Early Modern World Conference; Los Angeles, CA, 3 May 2014
“Constructing an Atlantic Dissertation,” Atlantic Cluster Speaker Series, University of California, Los Angeles, 1 May 2014.
“Pirate Fashion and Emerging American Identities” lecture, History 132: Men and Women of Fashion: The Politics of Dress in the Age of Atlantic Revolution,” UCLA, January 2014
“Crime and Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic Colonies,” colloquium speaker, Atlantic Studies, UCLA, February 2014
Presented “Exiles, Subjects, and Citizens in the English Atlantic, 1655-1700” at the British Scholars Conference, Austin, TX, March 2011
Harvard Atlantic History Seminar: “Justice: Europe in the Americas, 1500-1800,” Boston, MA, August 2010
Summer Academy on Atlantic History, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, September 2010
Presented “Cromwell’s “Western Design”: Redefining Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Empire and Identity” at the American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, January 2010
Presented “‘Sodom of the New World’ and the Empire: Exile Communities and Port Royal, Jamaica, 1655-1700” at the British Scholars Conference, Austin, TX, February 2009
Presented “Proper Ladies and Girls About Town: Changing Representations of the Domestic in the Victorian Novel” at the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, April 2008 Amanda J. Snyder 4 Curriculum vitae
Presented “Pirates at the Globe: Shakespeare's Use of Pirates as a Mirror of Atlantic Politics” at the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium: “Spectacle and the Spectacular in Early Modern Europe,” University of Miami, February 2008
Presented “From Criminals to Defenders of a Nation: English Pirates and Privateers from 1558-1605”at the Southern Conference on British Studies, Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, AL, November 2006
Languages
German, proficient Spanish, proficient French, intermediate Dutch, beginner Paleography classes on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish with N. David Cook
Archives
National Archives, Kew, Surrey, UK British Library, London, UK Society of Antiquaries of London, London, UK National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain Archivo Histórico Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain Archivo Histórico del Ministerio de Hacienda y Comercio, Lima, Peru Kislak Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. and Miami Lakes, FL William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles, CA Huntington Library, San Marino, CA John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.