SUREKHA DAVIES InterAmericas Fellow, John Carter Brown Library

Brown University, Box 1894, Providence RI 02912 website: surekhadavies.org

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Assistant Professor, History, Department of History & Non-Western Cultures, Professorship Western Connecticut State University; awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor in May 2018 (2012-18; resigned after the award of tenure). Postdoctoral Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, fellowship Birkbeck, University of London (2009-2012). Curatorship Curator, Map Collections, The British Library, London (2000-6).

EDUCATION PhD Combined Historical Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London (2009). Dissertation title: Representations of Amerindians on European Maps and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge, 1506-1624. MPhil History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (1998). BA (Hons.) History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (1996).

PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS Book prizes 2017 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in History/Theology, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference. 2016 Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history, Journal of the History of Ideas. Finalist, 2018 Pickstone Prize for the best scholarly book in the history of science, British Society for the History of Science. Residential InterAmericas long-term fellowship, John Carter Brown Library (2018-9; 6 months). fellowships Mellon long-term fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library (2017-8; 9 months). (long-term) Dibner Hist. of Science long-term fellowship, Huntington Library (2017-8; declined).

Residential Senior Fellowship, Descartes Centre for the History of Science and the Humanities, fellowships Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2019; three months). (short-term) Inaugural Virginia Stern Fellowship for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University (2019; four weeks). Visiting Scholarship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 3 months (2017).

Hardison Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 3 months (2015).

Jay I. Kislak Fellowship, Library of Congress, 4 months (2014).

Jeannette D. Black Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, 2 months (2013).

Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2 weeks (2006).

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External Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2018 and 2013). grants Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association (2013). Royal Historical Society, Conference Organizer Grant (2010). Journal of Early Modern History, Conference Organizer Grant (2010). Society for Renaissance Studies, Conference Grant (2010). Regional Board of Regents System-Wide Research Award for the Connecticut State award Universities (2016). Internal Faculty Research Grant, Connecticut State Universities-AAUP (annually, 2013-17). grants Faculty Development Grant, WCSU (annually, 2012-16). Minority Retention Fund, Research Grant, WCSU (annually, 2012-16).

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Book Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016; paperback 2017), 380pp. Winner: Roland H. Bainton Prize and Morris D. Forkosch Prize. Finalist: Pickstone Prize. Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement, American Historical Review, Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, Global Intellectual History, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Imago Mundi: International Journal in the History of Cartography, Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, American Association of Geographers Review of Books, Art History, Quaerendo, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Jesuit Studies, European History Quarterly, Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche filosofiche e materiali storico-testuali, Choice; Somatechnics. Journal issues Science, New Worlds and the Classical Tradition, 1450-1850, special double issue, Journal of edited Early Modern History, 18:1-2 (2014). Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology: Continuities and Ruptures, special issue, History and Anthropology, 23:2 (2012), co-edited with Neil L. Whitehead. Peer-reviewed ‘Science, New Worlds and the Classical Tradition: An Introduction’, Journal of Early articles Modern History, 18:1 (2014), 1-13. Depictions of Brazilians on French Maps, 1542-1555’, The Historical Journal, 55:2 (2012), 217-48. ‘The Wondrous East in the Renaissance Geographical Imagination: Marco Polo, Fra Mauro and Giovanni Battista Ramusio’, History and Anthropology, 23:2 (2012), 215-34. ‘From Maps to Mummy-Curses: Rethinking Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology’ (with Neil L. Whitehead), History and Anthropology, 23:2 (2012), 173-82. ‘America and Amerindians in Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographiae universalis libri VI, 1550’, Renaissance Studies, 25:3 (2011), 351-73. ‘The Navigational Iconography of Diogo Ribeiro’s 1529 Vatican Planisphere’, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 55 (2003), 103-112.

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‘Agency and Awareness in Cross-Cultural Encounters’, Terrae Incognitae: Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 34 (2002), 1-16. Roundtable ‘Monster Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Mark Bould, Liv Bugge, Surekha Davies, Margrit Shildrick and Jeffrey Weinstock’, ed. Donna MacCormack in Somatechnics 8.2 (2018), 248-68. Book chapter ‘The Unlucky, the Bad and the Ugly: Categories of Monstrosity from the (published) Renaissance to the Enlightenment’, Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, ed. Asa Simon Mittman (Farnham & Burlington, VT, 2012), 49-75. Book chapters ‘Technology’ for A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance, ed. James Symonds, vol. (submitted) 3 of A Cultural History of Objects (submitted to Bloomsbury; publication scheduled for Dec. 2019). ‘Maps’ for Princeton Companion to the History of Information, ed. Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja Goeing and Anthony Grafton (Princeton UP; submitted Oct. 1, 2018). Book chapter ‘Cabinets of Curiosities and the Order of Nature’, for Early Modern Things: Objects and in progress their Histories, 1500-1800, ed. Paula Findlen, expanded ed. (submitting Apr. 2019). Book project Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire: Spaces of Disruption, 1550-1725 (in progress). Book reviews Times Literary Supplement, Isis, Early Science and Medicine, Hispanic American Historical (academic & Review, William & Mary Quarterly, Journal of Early Modern History, Renaissance Quarterly, trade) Renaissance Studies, European History Quarterly, Intellectual History Review, Art History, Urban History, Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers, Imago Mundi.

INVITED LECTURES AND PAPERS (selected) Keynote ‘Global Encounters and Art History, 1450-1750’, in ‘Art History: Decentred, lectures & Recentred’, the Frank Davis Memorial Lectures, Courtauld Institute of Art, distinguished University of London (2018). invitations ‘Epistemic Images in the Global Renaissance’, keynote lecture, ‘Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World’ annual conference, Minneapolis, MN (2018).

Visiting Scholar, ‘Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World’, NEH Summer Institute, Indiana University (2017). Keynote lecture, ‘Monstrous Geography and Environmental History’, Promises of Monsters conference, University of Stavanger, Norway (2016). Respondent to Kären Wigen’s ‘Where in the World? Mapmaking at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900’, Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, Harvard University (2015).

‘Mapping Ethnography and Science in the Early Americas’, John Carter Brown

Library Fellows’ Jamboree seminar convenor, Brown University (2015).

‘Monstrous Knowledge in the Age of Exploration: The Case of “Imaginary” Monsters’, Symposium on Monsters, George Washington University (2014).

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‘Thomas Harriot, John White and the Invention of the Algonquian Indian’, Annual Thomas Harriot Lecture, Oriel College, University of Oxford (2011).

International ‘Collecting Artifacts and Inventing the Indigenous c.1800’, ‘Global Natural History invited talks around 1800: Collections, Media and Pedagogy’ conference, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen (2017).

‘Caribs, Arawaks and Tupi: Caribbean Ethnogenesis and European Cartography’,

Latin America’s Global History lecture series, Universität zu Köln (2017).

‘New Worlds, Indigenous Technologies and European Cabinets of Curiosities’, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (2017).

‘Historical Anthropology and Early Modern Maps’, Enlightenment Reading Group, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2017).

‘Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human’, Paris Early Modern Seminar, Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, Paris (2016). ‘Hakluyt, the Principal Navigations, and Encounters with Indigenous Artifacts’, Hakluyt & the Renaissance Discovery of the World conference, University of Oxford (2016). ‘Geography, Cartography and Monstrosity in the East in Sixteenth-century Europe’ Construction de l’Orient seminar, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (2012). ‘Global Knowledge Networks, 1500-1800’, Situating Early Modern Science workshop, University of Saskatchewan (2012). ‘Wonder, Headless Men and the Ethnography of Guiana, 1596-1619’, New World of Secrets: The Hermeneutics of Discovery in the Early Americas seminar, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (2012). ‘Imagined Communities: Ethnography and the Caribbean in the Early Modern Imagination’, Early Modern Cultural Geographies series, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2012). ‘Columbus, Martin Waldseemüller and the Invention of the Cannibal, 1492-1550’, Lunchtime Lecture series, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (2012). ‘Dutch Maps and the Shaping of Knowledge about Human Diversity, 1598-1645’, Transformations of Knowledge in the Dutch Expansion colloquium, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität, Munich (2010).

National ‘Knowing with Images: Natural History and Cartography in the Global Renaissance’, invited talks Harvard Cartography Seminar (Apr. 29, 2019). since 2012 ‘Reading Nature and Culture: Richard Eden’s Marginalia in the Johns Hopkins copy of Peter Martyr’s Decades of the New World (1530)’, Johns Hopkins University, Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance (Apr. 17, 2019). ‘The Global, the Local, and the Ancient: Displaying Antiquities in Early Modern Europe’, Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology, Brown University (2018). ‘Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire’, John Carter Brown Library (2018). ‘Subjectivities: Objects of Power and European Observers in the Atlantic World’, Active Matter: History, Practice, Thought workshop, Bard Graduate Center (2018).

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‘Machines in and of New Worlds: European Encounters with Preindustrial Technology’, Pre-industrial Technology Workshop, Yale University (2018). ‘Inventorying Human Variety: Overseas Artifacts and Curiosity Cabinets in Early Modern France’, Renaissance Colloquium, Cornell University (2017). ‘Why Can’t We Look at Images Properly?’, Futures of the Past New Books Symposium, George Washington University, Washington, DC (2017). ‘Encountering Technology and Inventing the Noble Savage, 1500-1800’, ‘Constructions of the Noble Savage’ symposium, Brown University (2017). ‘Collecting Technology in the Age of Empire’, Early Modern History Workshop, Princeton University (2016). ‘Inventing the Brazilian Cannibal: Maps, Print Culture and Ethnogenesis’, International History Workshop, Columbia University (2016). ‘Thinking with Maps: Ethnography, Visual Culture and Knowledge’ Duke University (2016). ‘Visible Bodies to Invisible Minds: Renaissance Maps and the Invention of Race’, Depicting the Invisible’ workshop, Princeton University (2016). ‘West is East: The Wondrous East and the Problem of the Pacific in Sixteenth- Century Geography’, Play and Display in the Early Modern Hispanic World conference, Princeton University (2015). ‘Amazons, Headless Men and Sir Walter Ralegh: Historicizing Wondrous Epistemologies in Renaissance Texts, Maps and Images’, Work-in-Progress talks, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (2015). ‘Spit-Roasts or Barbecues? Mapping Brazilian Cannibals’, Early Modern Global History Workshop, Georgetown University (2015). ‘Sir Walter Ralegh’s Headless Men: Wonder, Observation and Credibility in the Renaissance’, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (2014). ‘What is a Werewolf? Genres, Practices and Cataloguing Monsters from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution’, Early Sciences Working Group/Early Modern History and Book History workshops, Harvard University (2014). ‘Mapping Nature’s Variety: Vision and Comparison in Renaissance Ethnology’, University Seminar in the Renaissance, Columbia University (2014). ‘Making Meaning out of Monsters: Observations, Ethnography and the Epistemology of New World Wonders, 1500-1600’, John Carter Brown Library (2014). ‘Mapping the Peoples of the New World: Ethnography, Imagery and Knowledge’, William and Mary Quarterly–Early Modern Studies Institute ‘Before 1607’ workshop, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (2013). ‘Patagonian Giants, European Maps and the Concept of Monstrosity, 1520-1650’, Atlantic World Workshop, New York University (2012).

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (selected) Major ‘Human-Object Relations and the Invention of the Noble Savage’, American international Historical Association Annual Meeting (2018). conferences ‘The Americas’ for the ‘Writing Global History in Early Modern Europe’ roundtable, American Historical Association Meeting (2018). ‘Early Modern Science as a Visual Pursuit: Where are the Maps?’, History of Science Society Annual Meeting (2017). ‘Thinking with Inventories of Cabinets of Curiosities’, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (2017).

‘Space, Race and Monsters: Charting the Limits of the Human in the Renaissance’, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (2016). ‘Monster Studies: It’s Not About Make-Believe’, American Historical Association Annual Meeting (2016). ‘Mapping Monsters’, Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (2015). ‘Cartography, Ethnology and Epistemology: World Maps as Visual Encyclopedias’, History of Science Society Meeting (2014). ‘Counting Monsters: Renaissance Maps, Travel Writing and the Ontology of Human Difference’, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (2014).

‘Proof, Witnessing and the Credibility of Monsters in the Renaissance’, American Historical Association Annual Meeting (2014).

‘Mapping Exotic Monsters’, History of Science Society Meeting (2013). ‘Urban Wonder or Religious Depravity? Mexico, Peru and the Clash of Analytical Languages on Maps of the Americas’, Sixteenth Century Society Conference (2013). ‘Wonder, Ethnography and Markers of Monstrosity: Making Knowledge about Giants’, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (2013). ‘Exotic Monsters in Early Modern England’, American Historical Association Annual Meeting (2012).

‘The Circulation of European Knowledge about Non-European Idolatry’, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (2010). ‘Monstrous Peoples on European Maps of America c.1506-1648’, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, University of Cambridge (2005).

Thematic ‘New Directions in the History of Eighteenth-century “Anthropology”’, Northeastern conferences American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference, Wesleyan University (selected) (2012). ‘Maps, the Wondrous East and Sources of Ethnographic Authority, 1450-1600’, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Conference, University of York (2010). ‘Brazilian Peoples in the European Cartographic Imagination’, American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography conference, University of Essex (2009).

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‘From Monstrosity to Civility: Theodor de Bry’s Engravings of Virginians and Floridians on European Maps c.1598-1614’, Richard Hakluyt (c.1552-1616): Life, Times, Legacy conference, National Maritime Museum, London (2008). ‘Representations of Patagonian Giants on European Maps, c.1529-1602’, Patagonia: Myths and Realities conference, University of Manchester (2005). ‘Commodities and Cornucopias: Images of Amerindians on Maps of America’, 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Harvard University (2003).

TEACHING

Western Connecticut State University (2012-8). Teaching load: 4 classes per semester; 6-7 different preps per year. All classes taught as sole instructor. Postgraduate Advisor for an MA thesis on sixteenth-century trade between west Africa and research Europe. MA classes Kings, Cannibals and Columbus: Cultural Encounters, 1492-1750 seminar Undergraduate The Atlantic World, 1492-1750 Years 3 & 4 Monsters in European Culture from Antiquity to the Enlightenment Senior Research Seminar Microhistory Undergraduate Voyages of Discovery Year 2 The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Renaissance, Reformation and the Age of Exploration The Early Modern Witch-Craze Undergraduate Cultures of Empire (non-western empires) Year 1 Cultures of Empire: Asia Ancient and Medieval Europe Modern Europe from 1500

Birkbeck College, University of London (2009-12). Postgraduate Supervisor, MA dissertations on early modern medicine; English overseas trade; research chinoiserie and taste; the 19th-century Paraguayan independence movement. Team-taught Themes in Comparative Early Modern History MA methods European History courses Renaissance Studies Postgraduate European Visions of Amerindian Peoples, 1492-1654 taught courses Travel, Empires and Cross-cultural Encounters, 1500-1750 Medicine, Science and New Worlds, 1450-1750 Undergraduate Historiography team-taught European History, 1500-1800 courses Absolutism in Crisis? France 1685-1720

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Examining Postgraduate Examiner: The Changing Shape of Knowledge, 1550-1750 (2009); Power and Authority in Early Modern Britain (2011); The Decline of Magic: Magical Ideas in English Society, 1450-1650 (2011). Undergraduate Examiner: Witchcraft and Society, 1450-1750 (2012); The Age of Plague: Disease, Medicine and Society in Western Europe 1348-1665 (2012); European History, 1500-1800 (2012).

The British Library, London (2000-2006; object-based classes and workshops). Undergraduate Maps and Travel Writing, workshop for Santa Clara University (2006). classes Africa in Europe, 1450-1650, workshop for Queen Mary, University of London (2006). Graduate ‘Archives, Sources, Methods’, graduate workshop on using map as primary sources; classes for the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (2000-6, annually).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editorial Founding Editor, Maps, Spaces, Cultures book series (Brill) (2014-). boards & Editorial Board Member and Map Editor, Oxford Edition of Richard Hakluyt’s The peer reviewing Principal Navigations (1598-1600) (2011-).

Editorial Advisory Board Member, Monsters and Marvels: Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (2017- [Amsterdam University Press since 2018]). Reviewing book manuscripts for Cambridge University Press (2015-). Reviewing grant proposals for the American Philosophical Society (2015-) Article manuscript peer reviewing for American Historical Review; Journal of the History of Ideas; The Historical Journal; Journal of Early Modern History; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; Renaissance Quarterly; Journal of British Studies; Art History; Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural. Working Chair, Essay Prize Committee, The Hakluyt Society (2014-5). groups Trustee and Council Member, The Hakluyt Society (2010-5). Publicity Committee Member (2011-3). Scholarly Programmes Committee Member (2014-5). Conferences ‘The Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 1450-1700’ conference, Birkbeck, organized University of London. 100+ delegates from 15 countries (2011).

‘Rethinking Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology: Continuities and Ruptures’ international interdisciplinary workshop at Birkbeck, University of London (2010). Events & Fellows’ Reunion Academic Program Committee, JCB Library (2015). seminars Member of the Steering Committee, Global History Seminars, University of Notre organized Dame (London campus) (2011-12).

Co-convened Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London (2009-12).

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Conference ‘Thinking With Objects: New Directions in Social and Cultural History’, American panels Historical Association Annual Meeting (2018). organized ‘Rewriting the Grand Narrative: Thematic Fields in Early Modern Science’, History of Science Society Meeting (2017). ‘Thinking With Objects: Cultural Encounters and Material Culture’, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (2017). ‘Thinking with Spaces’, Renaissance Society of America (2016). ‘It’s Not about That: Revisiting Thematic Fields in the History of Science’, with Carol Pal, American Historical Association Annual Meeting (2016). ‘History, Other Disciplines, and Global Encounters, 1400-1800’ roundtable, American Historical Association Annual Meeting (2015). ‘Shapes and Contours of Early Modern Knowledge’, History of Science Society, Annual Meeting (2014). ‘Renaissance Monsters, Humans and Animals’, 2 panels, with Dániel Margócsy, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (2014). ‘Proof, Credibility and Renaissance Culture’ panel, American Historical Association Annual Meeting (2014). ‘Visual Epistemology and Early Modern Science’ panel, with Brian W. Ogilvie, History of Science Society Conference (2013). ‘Visions of Amerindian Urbanity in the Sixteenth-century Atlantic World’ panel, with Ralph Bauer, Sixteenth Century Society Conference (2013). 3 panels on ‘Ethnography, Ethnology and Science, 1500-1800’, American Historical Association Annual Meeting (2012).

UNIVERSITY SERVICE University Board of Regents-Connecticut State Universities research award assessment system committee (2017; faculty from across four universities in the system. University Judge, Western Research Day. Competition for undergraduate research (2014-6). Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences, Technology Committee, Western Connecticut State University (2013-5). Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences, Program Review Committee, WCSU (2016-7). Department Selection Committee, Janick Award (undergraduate history research) (2017). Dept of History & Non-Western Cultures, WCSU, ad-hoc Publicity Committee, (2015-6) Dept of History & Non-Western Cultures, Program Review Committee, (2013-4). Director, MA in Early Modern History, Birkbeck, University of London (Aug. 2009- Jan. 2010; Feb. 2011-Aug. 2012).

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PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT Videos ‘Global Encounters and Art History, 1450-1750’, ‘Art History: Decentred, Recentred’, Frank Davis Memorial Lectures, Courtauld Institute of Art (2018). ‘What’s Inside Early Modern Cabinets of Curiosities’?, Folger Library: Inside the Collection (2018). ‘Caliban’, Folger Library: My Shakespeare Story (2018). Podcasts One-hour book interviews on Renaissance Ethnography for Journal of the History of Ideas blog (2018), Time to Eat the Dogs (2018), and the New Books Network (2017). Publications ‘Cetacean Fight-scene’ in Earle Havens and Linda Skogh, eds, Inside the Cabinet of Curiosity (V&A Publications, 2019) (proofs returned). ‘L’Iconographie des nouveau mondes’, transl. Laurent Bury, in L’âge d’or des cartes marines - Quand l’Europe découvrait le monde, ed. C. Hofmann et al. (Paris, 2012), 160-71. Catalog entries for The Map Book, ed. Peter Barber (London, 2006) and for The Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps, ed. Peter Barber (London, 2001). Book review Review in the Times Literary Supplement of Chet van Duzer, A World for a King: Pierre Desceliers’ Map of 1550 (British Library, 2015) (2016). Museum Speaker and discussant, ‘Where was Europe?’, Baroque Galleries salon series, V&A talks Museum, London (2015). ‘Amerindian Savagery and Civility on Dutch Maps with Decorated Borders, 1598- 1626’, Oxford Art History Seminar, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2008). Public talks ‘Mapping New World Peoples in the Renaissance’ Library of Congress (2014). ‘Martin Waldseemüller and Caribbean Ethnography’, Re-Writing Ptolemy: Martin Waldseemüller’s 1513 Geographia and 1516 Carta Marina conference, Library of Congress (2013).

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