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Kenneth Reynold Mills 07. 2020
J. Frederick Hoffman Professor Department of History University [email protected] of Michigan kennethmills.ca Department of History University of Michigan 435 South State Street 1029 Tisch Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 USA
education:
D. Phil. University of Oxford (Balliol College), 1992. M. A. University of Oxford, 1993. M. A. University of Alberta, 1988. B. A. University of Alberta, 1985.
appointments:
2015- J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2003-2015 Professor of History, University of Toronto.
-Chair, Department of History, University of Toronto (2009-2012).
-Fellow, Trinity College, University of Toronto (2009-2015). -Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto (2011-2015).
-Director, Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto (2005-2009).
2000-2003. Associate Professor of History, Princeton University.
-Director, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University (2001-03).
-Assistant to the Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, Princeton University (2000-2002).
1993-2000. Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University.
-Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Preceptor (1997-2000). 2
1992-1993. Junior Research Fellow in Latin American History, Wadham College, Oxford University.
1992-1993. Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool.
1991-1993. Tutor in Modern History, Oxford University (1991-92: Balliol and Brasenose Colleges; 1992-93: Wadham, Balliol, Brasenose, New and Keble Colleges).
1986-1988. Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Alberta.
distinctions:
2019. Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Research Fellowship. John Carter Brown Library. Providence, RI, USA.
2018-2019. John Rich Faculty Fellowship. Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2016. Distinguished Visitor. Haverford College. Haverford, PA, USA.
2015. J. Frederick Hoffman Professorship in History. Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2012. The Centre for the Study of Religion At-Large Lecturer. Centre for the Study of Religion, The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio, USA.
2011. Visiting Professor. Centre de la Méditerrannée Moderne et Contemporaine, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France.
2006. Nicholas Hamner Lecturer, History Department, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
2004-2005. Distinguished Service Award for Faculty. Graduate History Society, Department of History, University of Toronto.
2003, Spring. Long-term National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island. (Fellowships to the Stanford Humanities Center and the Huntington Library declined.)
1999, Spring. Visitorship. School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
1997-2000. Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Preceptorship. Princeton University. 1996.
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Associate's Fellowship. John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island. 1995-1996. Research Grant. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1995-1996. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. National Humanities Center. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
1992-1993. Junior Research Fellowship in Latin American History. Wadham College, Oxford.
1992-1993. Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
1991-1992. Doctoral Fellowship. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
1988-1991. Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes Trust.
1987. W.S. Buchanan Scholarship. Departments of English and History, University of Alberta.
1984-1985. Dean of Arts' Honours List. University of Alberta.
1983-1984. Dean of Arts' Honours List. University of Alberta.
internal awards
2018. College of Literature, Science and the Arts/Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Large Course Initiative award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2011-2013. Curriculum Renewal Initiative Fund award. Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto. For the Department of History submission with Dr. Matthew Price: “History and the Digital Public Sphere.”
2010-2011. Member. Working Group Award, “Early Modern Exiles,” Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
external grants and awards
2007-2013 MCRI SSHRCC Grant:“The Hispanic Baroque: Complexity in the First Atlantic Culture”. Amount: $2,500,000 (CAD). Awarded 2006. Dates: 2007- 2013. Granting Agency, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Co-
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investigator and co-drafter on an international and multi- disciplinary team, led by Juan Luis Suárez, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, The University of Western Ontario.
2007-2008 Ford Foundation Grant: “Mapping and Building: Cuba, Canada, Mexico, and the United States – Past, Present, Future, An International Conference to be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association.” Amount: $50,000 (USD). Dates: 1 September 2007-30 April 2008. Granting agency: Ford Foundation (Mexico City). Co-investigator and co-drafter, with Ronald Pruessen, University of Toronto.
2007 Chancellor Jackman Program for the Arts Award. For “Moving Worlds of the Baroque,” an international, interdisciplinary symposium (11-13 October 2007) in conjunction with “The Virgin, Saints and Angels: South American Paintings 1600- 1825 from the Thoma Collection” in the University of Toronto Art Centre (4 September – 9 December 2007). ca. $100,000 budget.
2006-2007 Mellon Foundation Grant for a Sawyer Seminar, “Globalizing the Americas: World Economies and Local Communities,” Awarded 2006. Amount: $120,000 (USD). Dates: 1 September 2006 – 30 April 2007. Co-investigators Rick Halpern, Derek Williams and Daniel Bender.
publications:
books (refereed):
Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation. with Evonne Levy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.
Conversion: Old Worlds and New. with Anthony Grafton. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.
Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing. with Anthony Grafton. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History. with William B. Taylor and Sandra Lauderdale Graham. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources; now Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History. with William B. Taylor. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1998. Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Paperback Second Edition
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An Evil Lost to View? An Investigation of Post-Evangelisation Andean Religion in Mid- Colonial Peru. Liverpool: Institute of Latin American Studies, The University of Liverpool Monograph no. 18, 1994.
books in preparation:
“The Journey of Diego de Ocaña” (provisional title: manuscript in preparation).
“Apocalipsis en el Nuevo Mundo: arte, profecía y mesianismo en Hispanoamérica (s. XVI- XVIII).” with Ramón Mujica Pinilla (Lima: forthcoming).
essays as articles and chapters:
In press, co-written with Kris E. Lane, “Introduction” to “Beyond Index and Auto de Fé: New Directions in the Study of the Holy Office of the Inquisition,” a special issue of the Colonial Latin American Review, forthcoming 2o20.
In press: “Ocaña’s Mondragón in the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World,’” in Christian Interculture: Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, ed. Arun W. Jones (Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming).
In Progress. “Prophecy and Devastation: Hearing the Voice of Francisco Solano” [provisional title] in Apocalipsis en el Nuevo Mundo: arte, profecía y mesianismo en Hispanoamérica (s. XVI-XVIII), eds. Ramón Mujica Pinilla and Kenneth Mills (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, forthcoming).
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Articles and Essays Refereed
“Una sacra aventura en tierras que se volvían santas: Diego de Ocaña, O.S.H., 1599-1608,” Allpanchis vol. 46, núm. 83-84 (2019): Homenaje a Sabine MacCormack, 69-113.
“Afterword,” in Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Essays on Synoptic Methods and Practices edited by Karen Melvin and Sylvia Sellers-García (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017), 257-266.
“On the presentation of Diego de Ocaña, O. S. H. (ca. 1570-1608) [Review Article],” Colonial Latin American Review 25: 4 (2016), 559–567.
“Territorios agustinos de la gracia: Antonio de la Calancha y el Libro de Job en los Andes del siglo XVII.” In Augustín en España, eds. Marina Mestre Zaragozá, Jesús Pérez- Magallón et Philippe Rabaté (Toulouse: Presses universitaire du Midi, 2015), 185-195.
“Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña’s Desert in Passing,” in Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity, eds. Andrea Sterk and Nina Caputo (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014), 115-131. 16 pp.
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“Mission,” in Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation, eds. Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013), 229-232. 4 pp.
“Introduction: Technologies of Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation,” in Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation, eds. Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills. Co-authored with Evonne Levy. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013), 1-8. 9 pp.
"Demonios Within and Without: Hieronymites and the Devil in the Early Modern Spanish World," in Angels, Demons and the New World, eds. Fernando Cervantes and Andrew Redden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 40-68: 29 pp.
“Diego de Ocaña, Holy Wanderer,” in The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America, 2nd revised edition, ed. Kenneth J. Andrien, 151-171. Lanham and Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013.
“Global, Mobile and Salvific: A Consideration of Luke Clossey’s Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions (2008),” “A Round Table.” Histoire Social / Social History (Ottawa) XLV: 90 (2012), 400-409, within 393-412: 10 pp.
Q]O)J Ll tO)-7:.,7A::;ISt JlO)iE!i:ji , a Japanese translation of the original essay in Spanish: "Los ojos de la fe van a ver: la conquista espiritual en los Andes "re-visitado"" in Los Andes: El mundo de la negociación y la creación (Osaka: Osaka University, 2012), 118-131.
"La traversée du désert de Pariacaca par Diego de Ocaña, 1603" Missions et circulation des savoirs XVI-XVIIIe siècles. Sous la direction de Charlotte de Castelnau-l’Estoile, Marie-Lucie Copete, Aliocha Maldavsky, Ines G. Županov. BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LA CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2011), 401-422.
“Religion in the Early Modern Atlantic World” in The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World 1450-1850, eds. Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford Handbook Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 433-448.
"Introduction,” to a special issue on "Religion in New Spain," Colonial Latin American Review 18: 1 (April, 2009), 3-15.
"Provincial Councils: Overview and Commentary." In the Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900, ed. Joanne Pillsbury, Volume I, 189-196. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, USA), 2008.
“Diego de Ocaña (ca. 1570-1608).” In the Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900, ed. Joanne Pillsbury, Volume III, 457-464. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, USA), 2008.
“The Naturalization of Andean Christianities.” In The Cambridge History of Christianity. Volume 6: Reform and Expansion, 1500-1660, ed. R. Po-chia Hsia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 508-539.
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“A Catholic Atlantic.” Co-authored with Allan Greer. In The Atlantic in Global History, 1500- 2000. Eds. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Erik R. Seeman (Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007), 3-19.
“Religious Imagination in the Viceroyalty of Peru” for Virgins, Saints, and Angels: Latin American Paintings, 1600-1825, from the Thoma Collection. Ed. Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt (Milan: Skira Publishers, 2006), 27-40.
" ‘A Very Subtle Idolatry’: Estanislao de Vega Bazán’s Authentic Testimony of Colonial Andean Religion." In Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History, 3 vols., eds. Mario J. Valdés and Djelal Kadir. Vol. 3: Latin American Literary Culture: Subject to History, ch. 11, 157- 73. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Headnotes about Andean Christianities and the Church in The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830, eds. Elena Phipps and Joanna Hecht (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004).
“Introduction,” in Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing. Eds. Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton, ix-x. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.
“Introduction,” in Conversion: Old Worlds and New, eds. Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton, ix-xvii. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.
“Diego de Ocaña’s Hagiography of New and Renewed Devotion in Colonial Peru,” in Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800, eds. Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff, 51-76. New York and London: Routledge, 2003.
“Diego de Ocaña, Holy Wanderer,” in The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America, ed. Kenneth J. Andrien, 121-39. Wilmington, DE.: Scholarly Resources, 2002.
"Espíritu, historiador y investigador de investigadores,” in John Elliott: El oficio de historiador, eds. Roberto Fernández, Antoni Pasarola y María José Vilalta, 155-61. Lleida: Editorial Milenio, 2002.
"Diego de Ocaña e la organizzazione del miracoloso a Potosí." In Il santo patrono e la città. San Benedetto il Moro: culti, devozioni, strategie di età moderna, ed. Giovanna Fiume, 372- 90. Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2000.
"La `Memoria Viva' de Diego de Ocaña en Potosí," Anuario del Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia (1999), 197-241.
"Bad Christians in Colonial Peru," Colonial Latin American Review 5: 2 (1996), 183-218.
"Seeing god in mid-colonial Peru," in Andean Art: Visual Expression and its Relation to Andean Beliefs and Values. Edited by Penny Z. Dransart, 302-17. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Avebury Publishers, 1995.
"The Limits of Religious Coercion in Mid-Colonial Peru," Past and Present 145 (November, 1994), 84-121.
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“The Limits of Religious Coercion in Mid-Colonial Peru.” Reprinted in The Church in Colonial Latin America, ed. John F. Schwaller (Wilmington, DE.: Scholarly Resources, 2000).
"Especialistas en rituales y resistencia cultural en la región norcentral del Perú, 1646- 1672" in En el nombre del Señor: Shamanes, demonios y curanderos del norte del Perú. Edited by Luis Millones and Moisés Lemlij, pp. 148-183. Lima: Biblioteca Peruana de Psicoanalisis y Seminario Interdisciplinario de Estudios Andinos, 1994.
"Persistencia religiosa en Santiago de Carhuamayo (Junin), 1631," in Testimonios, cartas y manifiestos indígenas (Desde la conquista hasta comienzos del siglo XX). Edited by Martín Leinhard, pp. 222-231. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1992. coauthor with Miguel León-Portilla, "Mesoamerica Before 1519," The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. 11: Bibliographical Essays, ed. Leslie Bethell, (Cambridge, 1995) [hereafter CHLA, vol. 11], pp. 1-8. coauthor with J.H. Elliott, "The Spanish Conquest and Settlement of America," CHLA, vol. 11, pp. 29-37. coauthor with J.H. Elliott, "Spain and America in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," CHLA, vol. 11, pp. 42-50. coauthor with Nathan Wachtel, "Indian Societies and the Spanish Conquest," CHLA, vol. 11, pp. 37-42. coauthor with Murdo J. Macleod, "Aspects of the Internal Economy: Labour, Taxation, Distribution and Exchange," CHLA, vol. 11, pp. 93-100. coauthor with Charles Gibson, "Indian Societies Under Spanish Rule," CHLA, vol. 11, pp. 104-112.
Essays and Articles Not Refereed
“Sabine G. MacCormack -- In Memoriam (1941-2012),” with Ramón Mujica Pinilla. Colonial Latin American Review 22: 2 (2013), 309-313. 4 pp.
“Widths Within and Without.” Invited commentary on “It’s a Small World After All: The Wider World in Historians’ Peripheral Vision,” by Luke Clossey and Nicholas Guyatt. Summer 2013 online edition of Perspectives on History (American Historical Association, Washington DC, USA). http://historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2013/1306/Small-World- Forum_Mills.cfm
“South American Indians: Indians of the Colonial Andes,” in Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition. Eds. Lindsay Jones et al. (New York: Macmillan, 2005) volume 13, pp. 8605-8614. Commissioned essay.
Revision of thirteen other bibliographic essays on the Americas on the eve of Conquest and on
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colonial Spanish America, CHLA, vol. 11, pp. 1-162. (See just above).
"Peru," in The Childrens' Encyclopaedia Britannica, pp. 293-297. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica International, 1993.
Occasional writing
“What kind of engagement from Washington in Latin America?,” Munk Centre Monitor (Spring 2008), Insights, 8.
“In the rush to free trade with Colombia, human rights must not be overlooked,” The Globe and Mail, Op-Ed, online edition, 10 January 2008.
“Left-right labels misread Latin American reality,” The Toronto Star, Thursday, 29 June 2006, A-21. Monthly columns in La Guía – one of Toronto’s Spanish-language magazines (2005- 2007).
Book reviews and review essays:
Ocaña, Diego de. Viaje por el Nuevo Mundo: De Guadalupe a Potosí, 1599-1605. Edited by Blanca López de Mariscal, Abraham Madroñal Durán, con la colaboración de Alejandra Soria (Madrid: Editorial Iberoamericana; Frankfurt: Vervuert; Mexico: Bonilla Artigas Editores; Monterrey: Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2010) for Anthropos (Sankt Augustin, Germany) 108 (2013/1), 338.
Noble David Cook with Alexandra Parma Cook, People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007) in The American Historical Review 118: 1 (Feb 2009), 187-188.
Daniel T. Reff, Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) in The Catholic Historical Review. (January 2009), 92-94.
Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz, eds. The Native Peoples of the Americas. Vol. 3: South America, part I (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), in The Historian 65: 2 (Winter, 2002), 471-72.
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542- 1773 (Toronto, 1999) in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 30:1 (2002), 135-38.
Bolin, Inge. Rituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes (Austin, 1998) in Ethnohistory 48: 4 (2001), 767-69.
Burns, Kathryn. Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru (Durham and London, 1999) in the American Historical Review 106: 1 (2001), 232-33.
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Dean, Carolyn. Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru (Durham, 1999) in the Hispanic American Historical Review 81:1 (2001), 168-69.
Abercrombie, Thomas A. Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People (Madison, 1998) in The Historian 63: 1 (2000), 133-34.
Review essay: Luis Gerónimo de Oré, Relación de la vida y milagros de San Francisco Solano, ed. Noble David Cook (Lima, 1998); María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, Ensayos de historia andina II: Pampas de Nasca, género, hechicería (Lima, 1998); Luis Miguel Glave, De Rosa y espinas: Economía, sociedad y mentalidades andinas, siglo XVII (Lima, 1998); Clara López Beltrán, Alianzas familiares: Elite, género y negocios en La Paz, s. xvii (Lima, 1998), in the Colonial Latin American Review 9: 1 (2000), 117-21.
Kathryn Joy McKnight, The Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671- 1742, (Amherst, 1997), in The Americas 55: 4 (1999), 649-51.
Rusconi, Roberto, ed. The Book of Prophecies Edited by Christopher Columbus. Translation by Blair Sullivan, Repertorium Columbianum vol. 3 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1997), in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 27: 3 (1999), 118-19.
Sousa, Lisa, Stafford Poole, C. M., and James Lockhart, ed. The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649 (Stanford, 1998) in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 27: 3 (1999), 122-24.
Henry Kamen, Philip of Spain, (New Haven and London, 1997), in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 27: 1 (1999), 139-42.
Verónica Salles-Reese, From the Viracocha to the Virgen of Copacabana: Representation of the Sacred at Lake Titicaca, (Austin, 1997), in Colonial Latin American Historical Review 7: 4 (1998), 444-47.
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez, The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru, (Stanford, 1996), in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 26: 1 (1998), pp. 151-153.
Rodolfo Ramón de Roux L., Los laberintos de la esperanza, (Bogotá, 1993), in Hispanic American Historical Review 77: 4 (1997), pp. 692-693.
Erik Langer and Robert H. Jackson, eds. The New Latin American Mission History, (Lincoln, NE., 1995), in Bulletin of Latin American Research 16: 3 (1997), pp. 415-417.
A joint review of Patricia Seed. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640, (Cambridge, Eng., 1995), and Helen Nader, ed. and tr. and Luciano Formisano, The Book of Privileges Issued to Christopher Columbus by King Fernando and Queen Isabel, 1492-1502. Repertorium Columbianum vol. 2, (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1996), in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 25: 2 (1997), pp. 318-23.
Luz Ceballos Gómez, Diana. Hechicería, brujería e Inquisición en el Nuevo Reino de Granada. Un duelo de imaginarios, (Bogotá, 1994), in the Hispanic American Historical Review 76: 3 (1996), pp. 562-564.
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Anthony Pagden. Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-c.1800, (New Haven and London, 1995), in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 24: 2 (May 1996), pp. 309-311.
A joint review of James Muldoon. The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century, (Philadelphia, 1994) and Cecil H. Clough and P.E.H. Hair, eds. The European Outthrust and Encounter, The First Phase c.1400-c.1700: Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on his 85th Birthday, (Liverpool, 1994), in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 23: 3 (September 1995), pp. 511-515.
Bernard Lavallé. Las promesas ambiguas: Criollismo colonial en los Andes, (Lima, 1993), in The Americas 51: 4 (April, 1995), pp. 602-605.
Fernando Cervantes. The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain, (New Haven and London, 1994), in Bulletin of Latin American Research 14: 3 (1995), pp. 369-371.
David J. Weber. The Spanish Frontier in North America, (New Haven and London, 1992), in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 71:4 (October, 1994), pp. 507-508.
Anthony Pagden. European Encounters with the New World, (New Haven and London, 1993), in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 22: 3 (September 1994), pp. 555-557.
Sabine MacCormack. Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru, (Princeton, 1991), in Colonial Latin American Historical Review 3: 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 221- 226.
Irving A. Leonard. Books of the Brave. Being an account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World. With a new introduction by Rolena Adorno, (Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford, 1992 [1949]), Bulletin of Latin American Research 12: 2 (1993), pp. 224-227.
Kevin Gosner. Soldiers of the Virgin: The Moral Economy of a Colonial Maya Rebellion, (Tucson and London, 1992), in Bulletin of Latin American Research 12: 2 (1993), pp. 223-224.
Valerie Fraser. The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1535- 1635, (Cambridge, 1990) in Bulletin of Latin American Research 10: 3 (1991), pp. 345- 346.
Service (internal): University of Michigan unless otherwise indicated
2020-2021. Chair, Promotion Committee (Dr. Paulina Alberto), Department of History.
2019-2020. Member, Augmented Executive Committee, Department of History.
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2019-2020. Member, Executive Committee, Anthropology and History.
2019-2020. Member, Executive Committive, Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
2019-2020. Faculty Co-sponsor, RIW Religion and the Atlantic World, University of Michigan
2019-2020. Member, Faculty Grievance Hearing Panel, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
2019-2020. Member, Selection Committee, Doctoral Fellows competition, Institute for the Humanities.
2018-. Member, Executive Committee, Department of History (from 1 January).
2018. Member, Search Review Committee for Collegiate Post-Doctoral candidate (Diversity and Equity Initiatives). Candidacy of Dr. Raevin Jiménez, Department of History.
2018. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship and Research Selection Committee, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (LACS).
2017. Host and Speaker. Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS), Ann Arbor, MI.
2017-2018. Member, Review Committee, Lecturers. Department of Anthropology.
2017-2018. Member, Augmented Executive Committee, Department of History.
2016-2018. Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History.
Spanish Language Examination, Graduates, Department of History/
2017. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship and Research Selection Committee, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (LACS).
Service (external)
Promotion reviews 2020:
2020. Promotion. Department of History University of Maryland, College Park.
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2020. Promotion. Department of History, Boston College.
2020. Tenure Promotion. Department of History, University of California, Riverside.
2020-21. Reviewer, American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship selection (a new program supporting early career scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences).
2017-2020. Member, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Selection Committee (Full Professors competition).
2018. Member (continuing), Academic Council. Somiaya Vidyavihar. Mumbai, India.
2018. Member (continuing), Editorial Board of the Colonial Latin American Review (New York, USA).
2018. Member (continuing), Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (Sydney, Australia).
2018. Comite Consultativo. Nueva Corónica (Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, Lima, Peru).
2017. Member, External Review Committee, Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
2017. Member, Organizing Committee, 23rd Annual Omohundro Institute Conference (June 15–18, 2017. Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Service (Historic)
2014. Member, Awards Committee, “Maureen Ahern Doctoral Dissertation Award for Excellence in Scholarship on Colonial Latin American Studies.” Latin American Studies Association – Colonial division. Towards the May 2014 LASA meeting, Chicago.
University of Toronto:
2013-2014. Member, Third-Year Review Committee for Professor Sean Mills Member, Graduate Admissions Committee
Member, Search Committee, Modern Latin America (History, St George: hired Luis Von Ischott.) Member, Search Committee, Modern Latin America (Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC; search cancelled by UTSC Dean at “short list” stage)
Member, Senate, Trinity College, University of Toronto.
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Member, Library and Media Committee, Trinity College, University of Toronto. Member, Bronskill Prize and Student Awards Committee. Trinity College, University of Toronto. Member, Advisory Board. Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity.
Member, Advisory Committee, Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto.
2012-2013. On leave.
Member, Academic Council. Somiaya Vidyavihar. Mumbai, India.
2011-2012. Chair, Department of History, University of Toronto
Graduate Chair, Tri-campus Department of History
Chair, Policy & Advisory Committee Chair, Promotions Committee Chair, Salary Committee Chair, 2012 Donald Creighton Lecture Committee (Adele Perry) Co- Chair, Advancement, Awards & Nominations Committee Co-Chair, Workload Policy Sub-Committee Chair, Webthinking Sub-Committee
Chair, Promotion Committee (Professor Charlie Keil, completed)
Member, Tenure Committee (Professor Natalie Rothman, Department of Humanities, UTSC).
Member, Tenure Committee (Professor Hui Kian Kwee, Department of Historical Studies, UTM).
Member, Tenure Committee (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, completed).
Member of Promotion Committee to Senior Lecturer (Professor Victor Rivas, Latin American Studies; completed).
Member. Search Committee for History of Latin America, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto-Mississauga & Department of History (hired: Professor Kevin Coleman).
Member. Advisory Committee. Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
Member. Selection Committee. Jackman Program for the Arts, Jackman
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Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
Member. Humanities Chairs, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto.
Member. Managing Committee. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
Member. Steering Committee. Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto.
Co-chair. Search for an Assistant Professor, CLTA, Modern Jewish History
Member. Program Chair, American Historical Association (for 2012 Annual Meeting, Chicago).
Member, Senate, Trinity College, University of Toronto.
Member, Advisory Board. Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity.
2010-2011. Chair, Department of History, University of Toronto Graduate Chair, Tri-campus Department of History
Chair, Policy & Advisory Committee Chair, Promotions Committee Chair, Salary Committee Chair, 2011 Donald Creighton Lecture Committee Co-Chair, Advancement, Awards & Nominations Committee Co-Chair, Intellectual Life Committee Co-Chair, Webthinking Sub-Committee
Chair, Tenure Committee (Professor Nhung Tuyet Tran, Department of History)
Member, Tenure Committee (Department of Spanish & Portuguese).
Member. Search Committee for History of Canada, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto-Scarborough & Department of History (hired: Professor Paula Hastings).
Member. Advisory Committee. Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
Member. Selection Committee. Jackman Program for the Arts, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
Member. Selection Committee. Social Sciences and Humanities, 2011 University
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of Toronto Excellence Awards (UTEA) competition. Member. Humanities Chairs, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto.
Member. Search Committee. Director, International Relations Program, Trinity College, University of Toronto.
Member. Managing Committee. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
Member. Steering Committee. Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto.
2011. Member and Co-Author. Visiting team and Report to Director, National Library of Peru, Lima, Peru. “Informe Público al Director al Director Nacional de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú sobre el proceso de inventariado del Fondo Antiguo y el estado general de la institución.” April 2011.
2009-2010. Chair, Department of History, University of Toronto Graduate Chair, Tri- campus Department of History Chair, Policy & Advisory Committee Chair, Promotions Committee (Professor Giulio Silano promoted 14 April 2010) Chair, Pedagogy Committee Chair, Salary Committee Chair, 2010 Donald Creighton Lecture Committee Co-Chair, Advancement, Awards & Nominations Committee
Chair, Tenure Committee (Professor Paul Cohen: awarded 19 April 2010) Chair, Tenure Committee (Professor Malavika Kasturi, UTM) Member, Tenure Committee (Professor Ashwini Tambe, History & Women and Gender Studies Institute) Member, Tenure Committee (Professor Jens Hanssen, UTM) Member, Tenure Committee (Professor Tong Lam, UTM)
Member. Advisory Committee. Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
2005-2009. Director, Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto. 2006-
2008. Chair, two rounds, an internal committee within the Department of History to nominate candidates for Jackman Professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
2007-2008. Selection Committee, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
Advisory Committee. Vice-President for Research, Applications to the Canadian Fund for Innovation, from the University of Toronto.
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Research Committee, Department of History, University of Toronto.
Managing Committee. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
Dean’s Representative. Search in Aboriginal Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto.
Dean’s Representative. Search in Caribbean Literatures in the Department of English, University of Toronto.
Promotions Committee and two tenure case reviews, Department of History, University of Toronto.
Promotions Committee, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Toronto.
Tenure reviews, Departments of Political Science and History, University of Toronto.
External tenure reviews: Department of History, Notre Dame University, Department of History, McGill University; Department of History, Davidson College.
2006-2007. Chair, Connaught Humanities Review Panel, University of Toronto. 2004-
2007. Connaught Fellowship Humanities Review Panel, University of Toronto.
2006-2007 Centre for the Study of the United States Director Search Committee, Arts & Science, University of Toronto
Religion Department Chair, Search Committee, Arts & Science, University of Toronto
2005-2007 Promotions, Department of History, University of Toronto
2005-2006 Dean’s Representative. Modern Latin American Literature Search, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese/Comparative Literatures.
2005-2006. Search Committee for Early Modern European World, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto-Scarborough & Department of History
2005-2007 Promotions Committee. Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
2005-2007 Research Review for Tenure Committee. Dept of Spanish and Portuguese.
2004-2007 Policy Committee. Department of History, University of Toronto.
2003-2005. Research Committee, Department of History, University of Toronto.
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2003-2005. Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of History, University of Toronto.
2005-2006. Managing Committee, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. 2004-2005. Chair, Programmes Committee. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
2004-2005. Executive Committee. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
2003-2004. Programmes Committee. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
2001-2003. Director, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University. 1999-
2001. Assistant Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University.
1998-2001. Committee for the Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University.
1996-2001. Rhodes Scholarship Faculty Adviser, Princeton University.
1994- Rhodes Scholarship Committee, Princeton University.
1995-1996. Senior Undergraduate Adviser, Department of History, Princeton University.
1994- Faculty Fellow, Dean Mathey College, Princeton University.
1993-2003 various search, graduate admissions, selection, and ad hoc departmental, program, University and University Art Museum committees, Princeton University. 2011-2012. Planning Committee, John Carter Brown Library Fellows’ 50th Anniversary Conference June 2012.
2010-2011. Program Committee for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association to be held in Chicago, IL., USA, 5-8 January 2012.
Track Chair for “Histories and Historiographies” (one of c. 35 tracks) towards the June 2009 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2007- 2009.
Consultant for “Our Americas Archive Partnership,” Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C., USA. 2008 – present.
Historical Consultant to Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, National Endowment in the Humanities project. Coordinator Catherine Julien, Western Michigan University. 2006- 2008.
Editorial Board of the Princeton University Library Chronicle. 2001-2003.
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Nominating Committee for the Conference on Latin American History, the American Historical Association. 1999-2000.
Lewis Hanke Prize Committee for the Conference on Latin American History, the American Historical Association. 2000-2001.
Academic Consultant to Vistas: Latin American Visual Culture, 1520-1820, compilers Dana Liebsohn and Barbara Mundy (a cd-rom and web-based resource of over 120 primary texts and high-quality photographs of 200 colonial-period images and objects, designed for college students).
reviewer of awards, research proposals, manuscript submissions, book projects:
Guggenheim Foundation; Killam Foundation; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada; MacArthur Foundation; American Council of Learned Societies; National Endowment for the Humanities; The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.; Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) de la Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Government of Chile; Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Government of Argentina; Government of Chile National Humanities Center; John Carter Brown Library; American Academy for Franciscan History; University of Pennsylvania Press; Yale University Press; Stanford University Press; Blackwells; Duke University Press; Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press; University of Chicago Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press; University of New Mexico Press; University of Toronto Press; Hackett Publishing Company; Palgrave USA; Indiana University Press; University Press of Florida; Scholarly Resources, Inc.; Sussex Academic Press; Hispanic American Historical Review; American Historical Review; Colonial Latin American Review; Colonial Latin American Historical Review; Ethnohistory; The Americas; Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of Early Modern History, the Art Bulletin; Journal of Multidisciplinary Research.
university teaching:
Horror and Enchantment: A History of the Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese World (introductory survey) Journeys and Stories (a first-year Humanities seminar for undergraduates)
The History of Colonial Latin America (introductory lecture survey)
Conversion and Christianities in the Early Modern Spanish World (joint upper- level undergraduate and graduate seminar)
Making the Americas, ca. 1250-1780 (first-year lecture course version, and graduate seminar version, with Professor Allan Greer).
Readings in Latin American and Caribbean History.
Indigenous Colonial Cultures in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas (upper- level seminar).
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Spain in America in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (lecture and tutorial course).
Processes of Religious Conversion from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Times (upper-level seminar).
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (upper-level seminar with Professor Andrew B. Isenberg).
Conversion and Conformity in Reformation Europe and the Extra-European The Spiritual Conquest of Indians (freshman seminar).
Religion and Culture in the Spanish Imperial World (sophomore seminar).
History of Colonial Latin America (graduate seminar, historiographic).
Religion and Empire in the Spanish World, 1250-1780 (graduate seminar, topical).
Native and Empires: The Colonial Americas (graduate seminar, co-taught with Professor Allan Greer).
Early Modern Catholic Christianity (graduate reading course)
Eighteenth-Century Church and Society, Spain and Spanish America (graduate reading course).
PhD supervision: current graduate student supervisions:
Ismael Pardo (PhD: Colonial Latin America, University of Michigan). Begins: September 2020.
Augusto Espinoza (PhD: Colonial Latin America, University of Michigan). Began: September 2017.
Daniel Quick (PhD: Colonial Latin America, University of Michigan). Began: September 2016.
Hayley Bowman (PhD: Early Modern Spain, University of Michigan). Began: September 2015.
Richard Reinhardt (Anthropology and History, University of Michigan). Co-supervision, with Paul Johnson.
Sarah Reeser (PhD, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto). “Peter Martyr D’Anghiera.” Date Began: September 2013. Co-Supervision with Mark Meyerson.
Current Preliminary Examination committees:
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Augusto Espinoza (History, University of Michigan).
Frank Espinosa (History, University of Michigan).
Nicholas Crummey (History, University of Michigan).
Current Dissertation Committees:
Sarah Reeser (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto). C0- supervisor, with Mark Meyerson.
Hayley Bowman (History, University of Michigan). Supervisor
Richard Reinhardt (History, University of Michigan). Co-supervisor, with Paul Johnson.
Haley Bowen (History, University of Michigan).
Shai Zamir (History, University of Michigan).
Andrew McGaffey (History, University of Michigan).
Claudia Berríos-Campos (Romance and Classical Studies, Michigan State University).
Completed Doctoral dissertations & committees.
Kenneth Mills as Supervisor unless otherwise indicated:
*2020. Sarah Reeser, “The Whole Hand of the Giant: Geography, Vision, and Materiality in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Atlantic World." Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. 25 August 2020.
2020. Álexander Marino Cárdenas, "Lettered Mestizos, New Christians, and the Catholic Church: A Transatlantic Approach to the Exclusion and Defense of Mestizo Priests in Early Colonial Peru." Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, CO, USA. 19 May 2020. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2020. Paula Liliana Karger. "Cross-cultural Contact: Teodor’s Journey Across Continents.” Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canafa. 13 December 2020. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2019. Allison Graham. “’For the Honour and Good of the Republic’: Institutional Enclosure in Spanish Colonial Manila, 1590-1790.” History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 6 September 2019.
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2019. Joseph Thomas Chatto Sproule. “Merchants of War: Mercenaries, Economy, and Society in the Late Sixteenth-Century Baltic.” History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 15 March 2019. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2018. Ana María Silva. “Roots in Stone and Slavery: Permanence, Mobility, and Empire in Seventeenth-Century Cartagena de Indias.” History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 1 May 2018. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2018. Angélica Serna Jeri. “The Experience of Writing and the Life of the Archive: Emerging Literacy in the Colonial Andes.” Romance Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 24 April 2018. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2018. Karen Shears Cousins. “Miracles and Memory: The Virgin of Chiquinquirá and her People in the Seventeenth-Century New Kingdom of Granada.” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 19 April 2018.
2016. Stephanie Cavanaugh. “The Morisco Problem and the Politics of Belonging in Sixteenth-Century Valladolid.” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2016. Colin Rose. “Homicide in North Italy: Bologna, 1600-1700.” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner
2016. Amy Huras. “Castilianization in the Archdiocese of Lima, 1600-1700.” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
2015. Jared Wielfaert. “Prudentius of Troyes (d. 861) and the Reception of the Patristic Tradition in the Carolingian Era.” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2015. Max Deardorff. “Tale of Two Granadas: Religion, Genealogy, and Political Identities in the Spanish Empire, 1500-1650.” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA. External Examiner.
2015. Jared Wielfaert. “Prudentius of Troyes (d. 861) and the Reception of the Patristic Tradition in the Carolingian Era.” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2012. Nicholas May. “Feasting on the Aam of Heaven: The Christianization of the Nisga’a, 1860-1920.” This work was awarded the 2014 John Bullen Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis on a historical topic submitted in a Canadian university. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2012. Jean-Francois Lozier. “In Each Other’s Arms: France and the St. Lawrence Mission Villages in War and Peace, 1630-1730.” Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2012. Helen Dewar. “ ‘Y establir nostre auctorité’: Assertions of Imperial Sovereignty through Proprietorships and Chartered Companies in New France, 1598-1663.” Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
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2012. David Stiles. “Making Imperial Futures: Concepts of Empire in the Anglo-Spanish Sphere 1766-71.”
2012. Alexandra Guerson de Oliveira. “Coping with Crises: Christian-Jewish Relations in Catalonia and Aragon, 1380-1391.” First reader, Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2012. Natalie Oeltjen. “Crisis and Regeneration: The Conversos of Majorca, 1391-1416.” First reader, Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2011. Jason C. Dyck. “The Sacred Historian’s Craft: Francisco de Florencia and Creole Identity in Seventeenth-Century New Spain.”
2011. Christopher Parsons. “Plants and Peoples: French and Indigenous Botanical Knowledges in Colonial North America, 1600-1760.” Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2010. Stuart Parker, “History Through Seer Stones: Mormon Historical Thought 1890- 2010.”
2010. Dot Tuer, “Tigers, Crosses, Conquistadores and Shamans: Transculturation and Conquest in Río de la Plata: 1516-1641.”
2010. Sophia Koutsoyannis. “Immoral but Profitable: The Social Cultural History of Cabarets in Mexico City (1920-1965).” Department of History, York University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2009. Sara C. Jorgensen, “The American Zulu Mission and the Limits of Reform, Natal, South Africa, 1835-1919.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2008. Katrina B. Olds, “The ‘False Chronicles’ in Early Modern Spain: Forgery, Tradition, and the Invention of Texts and Relics, 1595-c.1670.” History, Princeton University. Co-Supervisor (with Anthony Grafton).
2008. Karoline P. Cook, “Forbidden Crossings: Morisco Emigration to Spanish America, 1492- 1650.” History, Princeton University. Co-Supervisor (with Anthony Grafton).
2008. Karin A. Vélez, “Resolved to Fly: The Virgin of Loreto, the Jesuits and the Miracle of Portable Catholicism, 1650-1750.” History, Princeton University.
2006. Xiaojuan Huang, “Christian Communities and Alternative Devotions in China, 1780- 1860.” East Asian Studies, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2005. Katherine E. Holt, “Ties That Bind, Family in the Bahian Recôncavo and Sabará.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2005. Frances Ramos, “The Politics of Spectacle in Puebla, New Spain, 1680-1775.” University of Texas at Austin. External Examiner.
2004. Daniela Bleichmar, “Viewing Colonial Nature: Images, Collections and Scientific Travel
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in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Americas.” History, Princeton University. Co- Supervisor (with Anthony Grafton).
2004. Jeremy Ravi Mumford, “Vertical Empire: The Struggle for Andean Space in the Sixteenth Century.” Yale University. External Examiner.
2003. Meri Linnea Clark, “Education for a Moral Republic: Public Schools and Civic Identity in Colombia, 1780-1850.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner. 2003. Anne Lester, “Cistercian Nunneries in the County of Champagne.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2002. Patricia H. Marks, “Power and Authority in Late Colonial Peru: Viceroys, Merchants, and the Military, 1775-1821.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2002. José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido, “Teatro y poder en el palacio virreinal de Lima (1672- 1707).”
2002. Eduardo Elena, ““Justice and Comfort: Peronist Political Culture and the Search for a New Argentina, 1930-1955.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2002. Amanda Jaye Wunder, “Search for Sancity in Baroque Seville: The Canonization of San Fernando and the Making of Golden-Age Culture, 1624-1729.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2001. Karen D. Caplan, “Local Liberalisms: Mexico’s Indigenous Villagers and the State, 1812- 1857.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2000. Alejandra Bronfman, “Reforming Race in Cuba, 1902-1940.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
2000. Evan Haefeli, “The Creation of American Pluralism: Churches, Colonialism, and Conquest in the Mid-Atlantic, 1628-1688.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
1999. Ignacio Gallup-Díaz, “`The Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe’: Imperial Rivalry and Amerindian Politics in the Isthmus of Darién, 1640-1750.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
1999. Jennifer Baszile, “Communities at the Crossroads: Indians, Empires, and Africans in Colonial Florida, 1670-1763.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
1995. Katherine Elliot, “Humanism and the Law Faculties in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva (1512-77) and the University of Salamanca.” History, Princeton University. Dissertation Committee Member and Examiner.
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Completed Master’s projects, University of Toronto 2012. Allison Graham (MA: History, Latin America, University of Toronto). “Emulating the Other Mary: The Symbolic Appropriations of Mary Magdalene in Early Modern Spain and the Spanish Colonies.” Supervisor.
2011. Geoffrey Harrison Wallace (MA: History, Latin America, University of Toronto). "'I Baptize You to Unbaptize you.' Baptismal Appropriation and Ethnogenesis in Colonial Spanish America." Supervisor.
2010. Leah Wotherspoon (MA: Dept and Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto). “The Christ of Chalma, Mexico.” Supervisor.
2008. Kathleen Mikos (MA: History, Latin America, University of Toronto). “The Gods on High: Religious Interaction in the Early Colonial Andes.” Supervisor.
2011. Peter Sorensen. "Are There No Social Rules in Our Home?: Fear, Anger, Power and the Aztec Empire.” Department of History, Trent University. External Examiner.
Papers, invited lectures, commentaries, and special meetings.
Ahead: 8-10 October 2020. Co-organiser and Participant in “Horror & Enchantment III: an interdisciplinary symposium.” Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA., USA.
Ahead: 5-7 March 2020. Co-organiser and Participant in “Horror & Enchantment II: an interdisciplinary symposium.” Tulane University. New Orleans, LA., USA.
18 November 2019. Invited presenter. Liminal Subjects Syllabus Workshop. Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops on Teaching & Learning in the Humanities and the Religion in the Premodern Atlantic, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, USA. See blog summary of session: https://teachingandlearninghumanities.com/liminal-subjects-syllabus-workshop/
10-12 October 2019. Host, Co-organiser, Convenor, and Participant in “Horror & Enchantment: an interdisciplinary symposium.” University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
18-19 April 2019. Invited paper. “Come Away, Gone Astray. Suffering Stories in the Early Modern Iberian World.” At “On Suffering” symposium. New York University. New York, NY, USA.
19 March 2019. Chair and Commentary. “New Approaches to Sanctity” panel. Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, ON., Canada
27 March 2019 Institute for the Humanities Essay Workshop.
26 February 2019 “Apostolic Longing in an Early Modern Spanish World.” FellowSpeak Public Lecture. Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
1 March 2018. Invited Special Lecture. “Compound Discomfort, Episodic Puzzlement: Diego de Ocaña, O.S.H., in an Early Modern Spanish World.” Interdepartmental
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Lecture Series, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA, USA.
22 May 2017. Invited Keynote Lecture. “Primary Sources in Research and Teaching the Early Modern Spanish World.” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) LXII Annual Conference. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
12 January 2017. Invited Seminar Paper and Discussion. “On the Beach in Paita, Peru, 1599.” Anthropology and History Seminar, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2 June 2016. Keynote Lecture. “The Prophetic Voice of Francisco Solano.” Arica Barroco. Festival de Arte Sur Andino. Fundación Altiplano. Arica, Chile.
29 May 2016. Commentary on panel: “Colonial Imaginaries in the Andes.” Latin American Studies Association, New York, NY, USA
2 April 2016. “Diego de Ocaña’s Historical Imagination.” Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies annual meeting. Santa Fee, NM, USA.
1 April 2016. Chair of panel. “Colonial Discourses of Power and Legitimacy in the Andes.” Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies annual meeting. Santa Fee, NM, USA.
10 February 2016. Invited Lecture for Distinguished Visitors Program. “Diego de Ocaña’s Historical Imagination: Bones and Ghosts.” Department of History and the Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies Program, Haverford College. Haverford, PA, USA.
23 October 2015. Invited Plenary Lecture. “Lost is Found in the Journey of Diego de Ocaña, O. S. H., 1599-1606.” Religion and (the Master) Narrative: An Interdisciplinary
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Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Belief and Practice. Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Colorado. Boulder, CO., USA.
25 September 2015. Book Manuscript Workshop. With Daniel Nemser and colleagues. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
16 April 2015. Invited Keynote Lecture. “Prophecy and Devastation: Hearing the Voice of Francisco Solano in 1604 and Thereafter.” Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
15 April 2015. Invited Comment. Symposium on Early Modern Apocalypticism. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
4 January 2015. Invited Lecture. “Festive Occurrence: Diego de Ocaña in Potosí.” Andean Studies Committee. Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association. New York, NY, USA.
3-4 October 2014. “Adventure and Daring in an Alms-Collector’s Journey, 1599-1608.” Invited Presentation. Interdisciplinary Workshop in Honour of William B. Taylor. Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA, USA.
24 June 2014. Invited lecture & workshop for History faculty and students. “Composing the Scene.” College of Arts & Sciences, Somaiya Vidyavihar, Mumbai, India.
28 May 2014. Invited Paper. “Comfortably Compound, Dangerously Middle in the Early Modern Spanish World,” for “Can the Native Christian Speak? Discerning the Voices of Indigenous Christians in Missionary and Colonial Archives.” Emory University. Atlanta, GA, USA.
2-3 May 2014. Invited Paper. “ ‘Precise Imagining,’ Strategic Fantasy: Diego de Ocaña as Reader and Writer in an Early Modern Spanish World.” “Iberian Globalization of the Early Modern World,” Session 3: “New Ideas and Their Global Locations.” University of California Los Angeles Center for Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
11 April 2014. Invited Graduate Seminar on the Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque (2013). Sabine MacCormack Distinguished Lecture Series. Department of History and the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN, USA.
10 April 2014. Invited Lecture. “Wonderment and Miracle in the Journey of Diego de Ocaña to the Indies, 1599-1608.” Sabine MacCormack Distinguished Lecture Series. Department of History and the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN, USA.
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13 January 2013. Invited Lecture. “Wonderment and Miracle in the Journey of Diego de Ocaña to the Indies, 1599-1608.” Department of History, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
21 October 2013. Invited Lecture. “El mundo milagroso de P. Gabriel de Talavera, desde Guadalupe al Potosí, y de vuelta.” In “El español en el libro. Del Atlántico al Mar del Sur.” VI Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española. La Real Academia Española, con la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, y el Instituto Cervantes, y el Gobierno de Panamá. Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá.
16 July 2013. Invited Plenary Lecture. “To Have and To Hold: Virgin and Child in the Medieval and Early Modern Spanish World.” In “Infertility and Sacred Space: From Antiquity to the Early Modern.” An Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the University of Cambridge. Part of the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award Project 'Generation to Reproduction.' Cambridge, U.K.
2 May 2013. Invited Pre-Circulated Paper and Discussion; Workshop for Graduate students. “Mondragón and Company: Diego de Ocaña in Potosí.” “Princeton Religion in the Americas Workshop.” Department of Religion, Princeton University. Princeton, NJ, USA.
26 April 2013. Invited Lecture. “The Journey of Diego de Ocaña, Near Immersion and the ‘Hero in Retreat.’” Early Modern Studies Institute at the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
31 January 2013. Invited Keynote Address. “Bowls of Wrath, Fountains of Re-Creation: Cosmic Elements in the Colonial Andes.” The Cosmic Elements in Religion, Philosophy and Literature.” International Interfaith Dialogue Seminar (31 January to 2 February 2013). Somaiya Vidyavihar. Mumbai, India.
15 – 31 January 2013. Invited Lecture and Workshop Series. “The Study of History Today.” K. J. Somaiya College of Arts and Commerce, Somaiya Vidyavihar. Mumbai, India.
3 January 2013. Invited Panelist. “Miracles of Mediation and Mobility in the Early Modern Spanish World.” On panel: “Saintly Translations: Stories about Saints across Time and Space” convened by Laura Smoller. American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA., USA.
20 November 2012. Invited Moderator of a discussion with film-maker James Cullingham after a screening of "In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey." Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
13 November 2012. Invited Lecture. “Potosí, magnet, maw and metaphor.” “Conversations” series in conjunction with art exhibition, Luminescence: The Silver of Peru. Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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13 November 2012. Invited Lecture. “Prompting ‘a City of Penitence’: The Prophetic Voice of San Francisco Solano (1549-1610).” Department of History, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
7-9 June 2012. Member of Organising Committee and two-Time Research Fellow. John Carter Brown Library Fellows’ 50th Anniversary Conference. Providence, R. I., USA.
31 May – 1 June 2012. Invited lecture. “"La casa en el campo, y una búsqueda para América,” for Sujetos coloniales: homogenización, negociación y subversión en los textos hispanoamericanos (siglos XVI-XVIII). Departamento de Cultura y Literatura (IKL) de la Universidad de Tromsø, Noruega, y el Departamento de Humanidades de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Peru.
28-30 May 2012. Invited Special Panelist. “And the Creature Appears Before You: Finding Presents in the Past.” Journal of the Canadian History Association panel “The Historian and the Archive." Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association: "Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World." University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. Waterloo, ON, Canada.
28 May 2012. Invited Plenary Roundtable Panelist. Roundtable on Luke Clossey’s Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association: "Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World." University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. Waterloo, ON, Canada.
27 April 2012. Invited Lecture. “Number and Measure in the Relación of Diego de Ocaña.” “Vibrant Materiality: Religion, Embodiment and the Life of Things –” http://sites.weinberg.northwestern.edu/vibrantmateriality/ an interdisciplinary symposium convened by J. Michelle Molina in Department of Religion at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
21 April 2012. Invited Participant on Plenary Roundtable. “Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion and Religious Refugees.” The annual conference of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
18 March 2012. Chair and Comment. "Jesuits in China" panel. Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2012 Annual Conference. Toronto, ON, Canada.
18 March 2012. Chair. Texts panel. “Celebration of Early Modern Studies.” Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
8 February 2012. Invited Workshop. “Telling Early Jesuit Enterprise and Interactions in Peru.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese Forum. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
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7 February 2012. Invited Lecture. The Centre for the Study of Religion At-Large Lecture. "Miraculous Matters: Making Catholic Christian Permanence in the Early Modern Spanish World." Centre for the Study of Religion, The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio, USA.
7 January 2012. Chair and Commentator. “Typologies in History,” panel. American Historical Association, Chicago, IL., USA.
15 December 2011. Invited Lecture. "The Study of History Today: Giving Presents to the Past." Somaiya Vidyavihar. Mumbai, India.
3 December 2011. "Los comienzos de la empresa jesuitica en el Peru del siglo XVII / Jesuit beginnings in Sixteenth-Century Peru." Congreso Internacional «San Francisco Javier, navarro universal, y la empresa jesuita. Elementos, conflictos y asimilaciones de dos mundos culturales.» GRISO -- Grupo de Investigación Siglo de Oro, de la Universidad de Navarra. Goa, India.
30 September 2011. “Prophetic Territories of Grace: Spanish America as a Mission Foretold and a Mission’s Afterwards.” For Apocalipsis en el Nuevo Mundo: arte, profecía y mesianismo en Hispanoamérica (s. XVI-XVIII)/ New World Revelations: Art, Prophecy and Messianism in the Early Modern Spanish World. Lima, Peru. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
29 September – 1 October 2011, convenor in collaboration with Ramón Mujica Pinilla and with colleagues in the Programa de Estudios Andinos at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Biblioteca Nacional del Perú: an international symposium -- Apocalipsis en el Nuevo Mundo: arte, profecía y mesianismo en Hispanoamérica (s. XVI-XVIII)/ New World Revelations: Art, Prophecy and Messianism in the Early Modern Spanish World. Lima, Peru.
17 June 2011: "Religion and Empire." Invited special address in plenary panel. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture annual conference. New Paltz, NY, USA.
14 January-5 February 2011. Visiting Professor (3 invited lectures on “Diego de Ocaña” and “Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque”). Centre de la Méditerrannée Moderne et Contemporaine, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France.
5-8 January 2011. “Sacred History in Spanish America.” Matter and Spirit, Inter-Faith Dialogue Conference. Peetham Somaiya Vidyavihar, Vidyavihar (East), Mumbai, India.
17-18 September 2010. Invited Keynote Plenary Lecture. “Tracing God in the Early Modern Spanish World.” For “From Iberian Kingdoms to Atlantic Empires: Spain, Portugal, and the New World, 1250-1700,” University of Notre Dame. South Bend, Indiana, USA.
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10-12 June 2010. Invited Lecture. Historia Sacra conference. Notre Dame Conference Facility, London, England, UK.
12-15 May 2010. Invited Keynote Lecture. "The Sacred Journey in the Early Modern Spanish World." Religion in the Hispanic Baroque: The First Atlantic Culture and its Legacy. Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool. Liverpool, England, UK.
7-8 May 2010. Invited Lecture. "Sacred Journeys and Difficult Middles in the Early Modern Spanish World." Image and Devotion in the Early Modern Spanish World. University of Southern California-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute's Annual Conference, Huntington Library. San Marino, CA., USA.
3-4 May 2010. Invited Lecture. "Los ojos de fe véase: la conquista espiritual en los Andes revisitado." Conferencia Internacional "El Barroco y sus Expresiones Religiosas." Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia. Sucre, Bolivia.
11 March 2010. Invited Lecture. "Eyes of Faith Will See: Sacred Journeying & Difficult Middles in the Early Modern Spanish World." Oklahoma State University. Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
5 February 2010. Opening Remarks. Graduate History Symposium. Department of History, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
8-10 December 2009. Invited Lecture. "Los ojos de fe véase: la conquista espiritual en los Andes revisitado." For "Aproximación Interdisciplinaria a los Conflictos en torno a los Discursos Andinos: un Simposio Internacional." The Graduate School of Human Sciences and the Global COE Programme, University of Osaka, and the National Museum of Ethnology. Osaka, Japan.
2-4 December 2009. Invited Lecture and workshop. “‘Tantos Milagros’: Miraculous Transmission in the Early Modern Spanish World.” Invited lecture and workshop. In the series “The Challenge of Religion in History.” University of Florida, Gainesville. Gainesville, FL, USA.
9 October 2009. Invited Lecture and workshop. "Eyes of Faith Will See: Sacred Journeying in the Early Modern Spanish World." Early Modern Workshop. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
7-11 September 2009. Invited Lecture. "Baroque Sensations in the Emerging Christianities of the Andean World, c. 1600." International Interfaith Dialogue. K.J. Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham (Mumbai, India) and GRISO (Research Group on the Spanish Golden Age), Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). Somaiya Vidyavihar Campus, Mumbai, India.
15 May 2009. Jesuit Workshop. Northwestern University / Newberry Library. Conveners, J. Michelle Molina and Kristin Huffine.
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24-25 April 2009. Invited lecture on "Indigenous Religiosity: Difficult Middles in Colonial Spanish America." For a conference "Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas." Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
18 April 2009. Invited paper. "'Relations' both close and many times removed -- official and vernacular reportage by religious in the early modern Spanish world." “The Early Modern ‘Relation’: Family Tree and Hermeneutics. An Invitational Workshop.” Organised by Tom Cohen and Germaine Warkentin. Victoria College, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON., Canada.
17 April 2009. Invited lecture. "Diego de Ocaña and Religious Change, in the Colonial Andes and in the Early Modern Spanish World." Department of History, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, USA.
23 March 2009. Invited Inaugural Lecture for 2009 Academic Programme. "Los viajes de Diego de Ocaña, O. S. H., 1599-1608." Programa de Estudios Andinos. Departamento de Humanidades. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Peru.
5 March 2009. Invited Comment. Panel (three papers): "Sacred Slippage: Indigenous Reiterations of Christian Ritual in the Americas." Rocky Mountian Council for Latin American Studies Annual Conference. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
3 January 2009. Invited Comment. Panel (four papers): “Assessing the Sacred in the Colonial Borderlands: Jesuit and Indigenous Faith at the Margins of the Spanish Empire,” Conference on Latin American History, at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York, NY, USA.
2 January 2009. Invited Comment. Panel (four papers): Conference on Latin American History, at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York, NY, USA.
23-26 October 2008. Presentation. “Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque,” Primera Reunión de Investigadores de Tecnologías de la Cultura. Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Colegio Jesuita de San Francisco Javier, Tepotzotlán, Mexico.
17 October 2008. Invited lecture. “Purposeful Chiaroscuro in the Journey of Diego de Ocaña.” For “The Image of Peru: History and Art, 1550-1880 Symposium.” The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA., USA.
16-18 October 2008. Submitted text in absentia, invited lecture. “The Eyes of Faith Will See: Sacred Histories in an Early Modern Spanish World.” For “Renaissance Visions of Christian Origins” colloquium. Calvin College. Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
9 October 2008. Invited Lecture. "Bartolomé de Las Casas in the History of the Americas." Humanities for Humanity, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto,
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8 October 2008. Consultant. “Our Americas Archive Partnership: A New Research Environment.” Council on Library and Information Services (Washington, DC, USA). Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
25 September 2008. Invited lecture. “The Visual Expression of Diego de Ocaña, O. S. H.” Colloquium for Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. New York, NY, U.S.A.
7 March 2008. Invited lecture. “The Spanish American Figuring Grounds of Diego de Ocaña, O.S.H.” Conference on “Religion, Race and Empire.” International Institute at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
3 March 2008. Lecture and discussion. “Diego de Ocaña’s Spiritual Journey.” University College Senior Common Room, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON., Canada
9 February 2008. Panel chair and Introduction. “The Malvinas/Falklands War: An Enlightened Store” panel discussion in conjunction with screening of “Enlightened By Fire (Iluminado por el fuego)” (Tristán Bauer, 2005). ReelPolitik: Understanding the World Through Film. Munk Centre for Internacional Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON., Canada.
8 February 2008. Invited commentary. Panel: “Changing Notions of “Tradition” (Stó:lo Historical Consciousness). In Cultures in Contact. Fourth Annual Gradate History Symposium. University of Toronto. Toronto, ON., Canada.
17 January 2008. Invited lecture. “Outside In: Diego de Ocaña’s Long Journey Home (1599- 1608).” The Humanities Centre “Ameritas Colloquium,” Rice University. Houston, TX, U.S.A.
4 January 2008. Invited commentary. Panel: “Conversion in the Contact Zones: Navigating Religious Practice and Identity Among America’s First Peoples.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Washington, DC, U. S. A.
20 November 2007. Invited Gallery Lecture. "Travelling Tales and Mediating Images." In conjunction with “The Virgin, Saints and Angels: South American Paintings from the Thoma Collection.” The University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
19 October 2007. Invited paper. “To Process in Place: Public Devotions in Early Colonial Peru,” Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Arts, Toronto, ON, Canada.
10-12 October 2007. Convened an international symposium: “Moving Worlds of the Baroque” (30 participants). A Chancellor Jackman Program for the Arts symposium. Toronto, ON, Canada.
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4 September – 9 December 2007. Co-sponsored exhibition with the University of Toronto Art Centre. The Virgin, Saints and Angels. South American Paintings 1600-1825 from the Thoma Collection. University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
26 June 2007. Invited paper. “The Miracle of Religious Mediation in the Early Modern Spanish World.” Second Global Seminar on Media, Religion and Culture: The Mediation of Religion: Historical Perspectives from the Ancient World to the Present.” Makati City, Manila, Philippines.
25 May 2007. Invited Lecture to the Conference in Early American History. Nankay University, Tianjin, China.
9-12 May 2007. "Deserving hearts, barbarous edges, difficult middles: Missionary knowledge and indigenous peoples in the early modern Spanish world". For CASCA, meeting of the Anthropology Association, Toronto, ON, Canada
25 April 2007. Invited Lecture: “Connective Histories: Canada and Latin America”. Canadian Perspectives Lecture Series. Senior Alumni Association, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON., Canada.
17 April 2007. Keynote Lecture. “Connective Histories: The Perspective of a Latin Americanist.” The Practice of History Today: A Conference for High School Students Interested in History. Department of History & Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
21 February 2007. Colloquium: “Latin American History.” Departamento de la Historia, Universidad de la Habana. Havana, Cuba.
19-22 February 2007. Co-convened (with Ronald Pruessen and Soraya Castro) Canada- Cuba Academic Exchange. Universidad de la Habana & Centro de Estudios Fernando Ortiz. Havana, Cuba.
15 February 2007. Invited Lecture. “Outside In: Diego de Ocaña's Long Journey Home, 1599- 1608.” Department of History, Queen’s University. Kingston, ON, Canada
10 February 2007. Roundtable presentation: University education: "Connective Histories: Teaching from the Perspective of a Latin Americanist." Hispanic Education Day/3a Jornada de la Educación, Association of Hispanic-Canadian Teachers. OISE and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2 February 2007. Invited Lecture: “Outside In: Diego de Ocaña's Long Journey Home, 1599- 1608”, Early Modern Studies Institute, University of Southern California and the Huntington Library. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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29 January 2007. Invited paper on panel. “Del exterior adentro. El viaje de Diego de Ocaña en los siglos XVI y XVII.” Misiones y la circulación de saberes en los siglos XVI- XVIII (29-31 January 2007). Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain.
9-11 November 2006. Discussant at "The Power of Images: Images of Power in Colonial Latin America", a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition “The Arts of Latin America” to be celebrated at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA., USA.
2 November 2006. Invited lecture: “Outside In: Diego de Ocaña's Long Journey Home, 1599- 1608.” University of Pittsburgh, Department of History Speaker Series. Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
26 October 2006. Invited Named Lecture: 2006 Nicholas Hamner Lecture, History Department, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
4 August 2006. Paper: “Demonios at home and away: Diabolic roles and functions in early modern Spanish Hieronymite texts.” Symposium: Angels and Demons in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America. University of Bristol, Bristol, England, UK.
17 July 2006. Paper: “The Naturalisation of Andean Christianities” in symposium: “Religiosidad indígena e iniciativas eclesiásticas” at the 52nd International Congress of Americanists (17-21 July 2006). Seville, Spain.
29 May 2006. Facilitator/Animateur for panel on “The Impact of Catholicism.” 2006 Canadian Historical Association 85th annual meeting. York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
3 May 2006. Invited workshop paper on Christianisation in the Andes. Boston Area Latin American History Workshop, David Rockefeller Centre for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA., USA.
15-18 March 2006. Commentator on panel: “Colonial Church and Religion across Disciplines.” Organiser: Professor Karen Melvin, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine, U. S. A.). XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
12 November 2005. Chair of panel: “Transgression and Control” at “Creating Women: Notions of Feminity from 1350 to 1700.” Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
20 April 2005. “The JCB in a Circulation of Knowledges.” John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Providence, RI, U. S. A.
12 April 2005. with Thomas Lahusen and Mark Meyerson. “The Graduate and Upper- Level Undergraduate Seminar.” Workshop in Teaching Series, Department of History, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
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18 March 2005. “Colonial Latin America Workshop.” MA seminar, Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
15 March 2005. “Connective Histories: A Latin Americanist’s Perspective.” The History Students’ Association, Department of History, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
4 March 2005. “The Naturalisation of Andean Christianities.” Distinguished Speakers in Latin American History Series. Department of History, University of Texas, Austin. Austin, TX, U. S. A.
23 February 2005. “Drawing on America: The Words and Pictures of Diego de Ocaña, O. S. H., 1599-1608.” Toronto Area Reformation and Renaissance Colloquiam. Victoria College, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
26 November 2004. “In Between: Thoughts on Cultural Mestizaje and Mobility in the Colonial Andes and Beyond.” For The World History Workshop Series, Department of History, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
18-19 November 2004. Invited paper and discussant at “El mestizaje como problema de investigación: Taller de discusión.” Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
31 October 2004. “Feminine Figuring Grounds in a Christianising Peru.” For panel: “Religion Across Social and Political Landscapes in Latin America and the Caribbean (16th to 20th Centuries).” Congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Guelph, ON., Canada.
30 October 2004. Commentary on 4-paper panel: “Social Mobility and Identity in Colonial Latin America.” Congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Guelph, ON., Canada.
28 October 2004. “Feminine Figuring Grounds in a Christianising Peru.” For panel Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. Toronto, ON., Canada.
16 October 2004. Co-authored with Allan Greer. “A Catholic Atlantic.” For “Beyond the Line: Historiographical Currents in the North and South Atlantic.” Conference at the University of Buffalo. Buffalo, NY, U. S. A.
17-19 June 2004. Invited commentary and discussant. “Workshop: Court, Ritual Community, and the City: Chinese and Christian Rituality in Late Imperial Beijing.” Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Leuven, Belgium.
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2-3 June 2004. “From Spiritual Conquest to Sacred Convergences and Circulations.” Invited paper. Religion and Cultural Mobility Workshop. Wissenschaft zu Berlin, Institute of Advanced Study. Berlin, Germany.
28-29 May 2004. Chair of panel IV: “Conquest, Occupation and Colonial Rule.” “Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties from Antiquity through the Gulf Wars.” The Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON., Canada.
20 April, 2004. Invited paper and planning participant. Working Group on “The Early Church and Native-European Encounters in the New World: Texts, Archaeology, Architecture and Art.” Dumbarton Oaks. Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
8 April, 2004. “Sacred Circulations in Sixteenth-Century Peru.” Invited lecture. Department of History, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
3 April, 2004. Commentary on third session: “Nodes of Empire: Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern Period.” Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. Princeton University. Princeton, N. J., U. S. A.
2 April, 2004. “Marys and Micro-Christendoms in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America.” Invited paper in panel: “Cultic Developments in the Early Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. New York City, NY, U. S. A.
27 March, 2004. Chair and Commentary. Panel on “Indigenous Resistance.” “Lost Colonies” conference. McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, PA, U. S. A.
10 January, 2004. Commentary. Panel “Power, Politics and Colonial Ritual: Fresh Perspectives from New Spain.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Washington D. C., U. S. A.
13 November, 2003. “Marys and Micro-Christendoms in Sixteenth-Century Peru.” Invited lecture in Latin American History. University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB., Canada.
12 April, 2003 Invited lecture. “Alms and Information in the Journey of Diego de Ocaña, O. S. H., 1599-1607.” The Organization of Knowledge. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England, U. K.
12 February, 2003. Fellow’s Lecture. “Diego de Ocaña Among God’s Numberless Peoples, 1599-1607.” The John Carter Brown Library. Providence, RI, U. S. A.
3 February, 2003. Invited lecture. “Alms and Information: Diego de Ocaña Among God’s Numberless Peoples, 1599-1607.” Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA, U. S. A.
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31 October-1 November, 2002 Discussant. “The Moral Authority of the Past.” National Humanities Center. Research Triangle Park, NC, U. S. A.
6-9 June, 2002 Chair of panel. “The Gendered Production (and Reproduction) of Religious and Legal Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America.” Twelfth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Storrs, CT, U. S. A. (presenters: Nora Jaffary; Nancy Van Deusen; Kathryn Burns; commentator: Jodi Bilinkoff).
16 April, 2002 “Drawing on America: The Pictures and Words of Diego de Ocaña,” Works in Progress series, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, Princeton University.
5 April, 2002 Comment on Marcy Norton, “American Offerings: Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World, 1492-1700,” Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, Princeton University.
6 March, 2002 “Making an Image and a Shrine: Our Lady of Copacabana in the Sixteenth- Century Andes.” Invited lecture to the Paideia Society, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., U. S. A.
1-2 March, 2002 Convening and presenting at “Around the Church: Religion and the City in Colonial Peru.” A Symposium at Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., U. S. A.
15 February, 2002. “Sacred Images and Nascent Christianities.” The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction meeting. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, U. S. A.
3-6 January, 2002. “Miraculous Images and Nascent Christianities in the Colonial Andes.” Panel: “Sanctity on the Frontier: The Culture of Conquest and Reconquest in the Early Modern World.” American Historical Association Meeting. San Francisco, CA., U. S. A.
10-13 November, 2001. “Los principios del cristianismo en los Andes,” At “Los rostros del barroco: sociedad y cultura en el Perú Virreinal, 1600-1750.” Santa Clara, Lima, Peru.
27 April, 2001 Comment on Valerie Flint, “Conversion and Compromise in Late Medieval England.” The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University. Princeton, N. J., U. S. A.
1 March, 2001. Comment on historical session at “Natives Past and Present: Historical and Contemporary Issues for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.” Committee for Canadian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., U. S. A.
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5 January, 2001. Chair of panel. "From Juridical Proof to Accidental Ethnography: Narratives about Idolatry and Witchcraft in New Spain and Guatemala." American Historical Association. Boston, MA., USA.
15 December, 2000. Comment on Peter Gose, “Conversion as Settlement Consolidation: Peru, 1567-1671.” Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., USA.
13 October, 2000 Comment on “The Wilderness Years of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca,” 3 vols. by Rolena Adorno. Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., USA.
12 October, 2000. Presentation of book at the launching of Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 by Richard L. Kagan. The Spanish Institute and the Americas Society, New York, N.Y., USA.
7 October, 2000. "Drawing on America: The Pictures and Words of Diego de Ocaña (ca. 1599- 1608)." Invited lecture for "Changing and Exchanging: Conversions of faiths, identities, things and spaces on lines of contact." Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
19 September, 2000 "Place and Cultural Description in the Interactions of Spaniards and Amerindians in Early Spanish America." Invited lecture for American Studies 201-- "American Places." Professors William Gleason and Sean Wilentz. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
4-17 June, 2000 "Cristianismo universal y etnografía accidental en el Cusco colonial" Invited paper for "Cristianismo y Poder en el Perú Colonial." Fundación Kuraka y el Centro de Estudios Regionales Bartolomé de Las Casas. Cusco, Peru.
12-14 May, 2000 "New Sacred Foundations in the Colonial Andes." Invited paper for "Colonial Saints: Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Americas, 1500-1800." University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
13 April, 2000. "A Tale of Five Cities: Diego de Ocaña in the Andes, 1599-1604." Invited paper. Latin American History Workshop, Department of History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL., U.S.A.
4 February, 2000 Comment on Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, "Religious Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea." Davis Center Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
2 October 1999 "Evangelización y cristianización en la historia colonial." Invited lecture to III Jornadas de Estudios Coloniales 1999: Explorando el siglo XVII. Comisión de Estudios Coloniales del Instituto Riva-Agüero y la Dirección Académica de Investigación del la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Santa Rosa de Ocopa, Concepción, Junín, Peru.
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20 July 1999 "Conversión y control en las Indias." Invited, pre-circulated paper for "España y las Indias, 1492-1830": Seminario de Historia de España de la Fundación Duques de Soria (July 19-23, 1999). Soria, Spain.
9 July 1999 "Imagery and Information in Colonial Spanish America." Invited lecture to Visualizing Colonialism: Museums and the Teaching of Material Culture. Summer Teachers Institute. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY., U.S.A.
30 April 1999 "The Conversion of Naturales and Other Dreams in the Andes." Perú Hoy: Primer Congreso Internacional de Peruanistas en el Extranjero (April 29-May 1, 1999). Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., U.S.A.
12 December 1998 "Miracles and the Configuration of Colonial Religion in the Spanish Indies." Il Santo e la Città: S. Benedetto il Moro (December 10-12, 1998). Palermo, Italy.
9 November 1998 "Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Communication of Christianity in the Imperial City of Potosí, c. 1600." Invited talk to the Imperial History Research Seminar. Institute of Historical Research, London, England, U.K.
12 May 1998 "A Documentary History of Colonial Spanish America." Luncheon for the interdisciplinary faculty of the Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University.
2-7 April 1998 "A New Lady in the Land: Perceptions of Andean Christianity in Early Colonial Potosí." Kay Pacha: Earth, Land, Water and Culture in the Andes. A Symposium at the University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, U.K.
25 February 1998 "And the Creatures Appear Before You: Primary Documents from Colonial Latin America." Invited lecture to The Council of the Friends of the Princeton University Library in conjunction with the exhibit "The Search for Latin America." Princeton University.
12 February 1998 "Colonial Latin America." Invited lecture, Maestro's Dinner. Dean Mathey College, Princeton University.
11 January 1998 "`If the Image Had Not Been Made...': Devotion and Donations in Early Colonial Potosí." 1998 Meeting of the American Historical Association. Panel: Reshaping Religious Identities in Early Modern Catholicism. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
1 December 1997 "After the Ancients." Invited, pre-circulated paper to the Sawyer Mellon Seminar on National Cultures and the Construction of the Modern World, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MA., U.S.A.
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20 November 1997 "Devotion and Donations in Colonial Potosí." Invited lecture to coincide with an art exhibition about Potosí. The Americas Society, New York, NY, U.S.A.
13 November 1997 "Edifying Stories from the Spanish World." Invited paper at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, U.S.A.
15 May 1997 "Christianity and Colonial Cultures," National Humanities Center Trustees' Meeting. New York, NY, U.S.A.
18 April 1997 "Some Shapes of Colonial Culture." A comment on a four-paper panel, "Indigenous Reformulations of Colonial Christianity and Political Theory," at the Twentieth International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
11 April 1997 Comment on Lee Siegel, "Dance of the Serpent: A Prolusory Essay on Indian Snake Charmers." Davis Center Seminar. Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
7 April 1997 Chair and Comment at "Person, Community and Empire: The Theory and Practice of Sovereignty." Symposium at The Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton, NJ., U.S.A.
18 October 1996 "Converting Christianity: Translation in the Spanish World." Conference Paper on panel "Christianity, Conversion, and the Word" at "Communicating with the Indians. Aspects of the Language Encounter with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, 1492-1800," John Carter Brown Library at Brown University (18-20 October, 1996) C Providence, RI, U.S.A.
26 June 1996 "Christianizing Narratives and Religious Change: Two Cases in Late Sixteenth- Century Granada, Spain." Fellows' Luncheon Talk. John Carter Brown Library at Brown University - Providence, RI., USA.
18 April 1996 "Christianizing the Spanish World." Renaissance Workshop, Arts and Sciences Committee for Renaissance Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC., USA.
23 March 1996 "Religion and `Popular Religion'." Roundtable on Popular Culture and Religion. Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies - Santa Fe, NM., USA.
11 November 1995 "The Extirpation of Morality and Andean Religious Change." 26th Congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies - Toronto, ON., Canada.
30 October 1995 "Discussion of Current Research (with "Bad Christians" pre-circulated as introduction)." National Humanities Center Early Modern Seminar - Research Triangle Park, N.C., USA.
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6 October 1995 "Bad Christians in Colonial Peru." Invited lecture at the University of Alberta, History Department Colloquium - Edmonton, AB., Canada. 24 October 1994.
"Making a Mould to Fit: Spaniards and Non-Christians from c. 1450 to 1750". Invited lecture at Texas Christian University - Fort Worth, TX., USA.
5-7 May 1994 Panel Moderator at "The Caribbean Between Empires: Fin de siglo, Final del imperio", a conference at Princeton University - Princeton, N.J., USA.
21-22 April 1994 Commentator at "The Carolinas-Virginia-Georgia Colonial Latin American Seminar" - Wilmington, N.C., USA.
5 July 1993 "Local Religion in Seventeenth-Century Peru." The Conference on Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. Regius University - Denver, Colorado, USA.
17 October 1992 "The Amerindian Response to European Control: The Case of Peru". `The New World 1492-1992' Conference, University of Leicester - Leicester, England.
9 July 1992 "The Failure of Comprehension: The Religious Encounter in Mid-Colonial Peru". The Anglo-American Conference for Historians, Institute of Historical Research - London, England, 7-10 July, 1992, in the symposium on `Europeans and Native Americans' convened by Dr. Anthony Pagden.
November 1991 "The Distinction Between Formal Idolatry and Superstition in Seventeenth- Century Peru", Graduate Seminar in Spanish Studies, University of Oxford - Oxford, England.
November 1991 "Indigenous Strategies of Resistance in Colonial Spanish America", J.H. Elliott's seminar on Comparative Colonisation: Britain and Spain in America, University of Oxford - Oxford, England.
July 1991 "Seeing god in Mid-Colonial Peru", 47th International Congress of Americanists, 7-11 July 1991, Tulane University - New Orleans, LA., USA.
March 1991 "Chancas and Conopas: Religious and Social Organisation in Colonial Peru", Andean Work In Progress Seminar, Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies, King's College, University of London - London, England.
February 1991 "The Face of Christianity in Mid-Colonial Peru", J.H. Elliott's Hilary Term Seminar: Comparative Colonisation; Britain and Spain in America - Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford - Oxford, England.
January 1991 "Evangelisation By Force. The Discursive Side of the Extirpation of Idolatry." Andean Seminar, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool - Liverpool, England.
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May 1990 "Deception and Delusion. The Demonisation of Andean Religion." Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge - Cambridge, England.
June 1989 "Huacas, Ancestors and Saints. Religious Intermixture in Seventeenth-century Cajatambo, Peru." presented at the Department of Anthropology Seminar, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London - London, England and T.O. Ranger's African Studies Workshop, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford - Oxford, England.
February 1989 "An Evil Lost to View?" The Institute of Amerindian Studies, St. Andrews University - St. Andrews, Scotland.
January 1989 "Missionaries and Extirpators in Colonial Peru." Joint School of Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick - Coventry, England.
April 1988 "The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru. San Pedro de Hacas, 1657." The Brown Bag Seminar, University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada.
October 1986 "The Likely Hood: An Historiographical Examination of the Robin Hood Debate." British History Seminar, University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada.