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Davies, Surekha, CV, 2016-10, Online SUREKHA DAVIES Curriculum Vitae Department of History & Non-Western Cultures Western Connecticut State University 181 White Street, Danbury, CT 06510, USA [email protected] surekhadavies.org _______________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 2009 Ph.D. Combined Historical Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London 1998 M.Phil. History and Philosophy of Science, Robinson College, University of Cambridge 1996 BA (Hons.) History and Philosophy of Science, Robinson College, University of Cambridge PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2012- Assistant Professor, History (Europe and empires), Department of History & Non-Western Cultures, Western Connecticut State University 2009-12 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (early modern history) Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London 2000-6 Curator, Map Collections, British Library, London RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Visiting Research Scholarship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany (3 months; for summer 2017) 2014 Jay I. Kislak Fellowship, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress (4 months) 2014 Hardison Fellowship, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library (3 months) 2013 John Carter Brown Library, Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship (2 months) 2006 Newberry Library, Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellowship (2 weeks) EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS 2013 American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant 2013 American Historical Association, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant 2010 Society for Renaissance Studies, Conference Organizer Grant 2010 Royal Historical Society, Conference Organizer Grant Surekha Davies, Ph.D. 1 September 2016 EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS (continued) 2010 Journal of Early Modern History, Conference Organizer Grant 2010 Society for Renaissance Studies, Conference Grant 2006 Society for Renaissance Studies, Travel Fellowship 2003 American Friends of the J. B. Harley Research Fellowships, Travel Fellowship 2001 The British Academy, Overseas Conference Travel Grant 2001 American Friends of the J. B. Harley Research Fellowships, Travel Fellowship 2001 Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, Education Grant SELECTED INTERNAL AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS 2016 Board of Regents System-Wide Research Award for the Connecticut State Universities 2016 Faculty Research Grant, Connecticut State Universities-AAUP 2016 Faculty Development Grant, Western Connecticut State University 2015 Minority Retention Fund, Research Grant, Western Connecticut State University 2015 Faculty Research Grant, Connecticut State Universities-AAUP 2015 Faculty Development Grant, Western Connecticut State University 2014 Minority Retention Fund, Research Grant, Western Connecticut State University 2014 Faculty Research Grant, Connecticut State Universities-AAUP 2014 Faculty Development Grant, Western Connecticut State University 2013 Western Connecticut State University Minority Retention Fund, Research Grant 2013 Western Connecticut State University Faculty Development Grant 2013 Faculty Research Grant, Connecticut State Universities-AAUP 2012 Western Connecticut State University Minority Retention Fund, Research Grant Surekha Davies, Ph.D. 2 September 2016 PUBLICATIONS Books Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 380pp. Reviewed in J. of Historical Geography. Collecting Technology in the Age of Empire (in progress) Guest-edited journals 2014 Science, New Worlds and the Classical Tradition, 1450-1850, special double issue, Journal of Early Modern History, 18:1-2. 2012 Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology: Continuities and Ruptures, special issue, History and Anthropology, 23:2, co-edited with Neil L. Whitehead. Articles in peer-reviewed journals 2014 ‘Science, New Worlds and the Classical Tradition: An Introduction’, Journal of Early Modern History, 18:1, 1-13. 2012 ‘Depictions of Brazilians on French Maps, 1542-1555’, The Historical Journal, 55:2, 217-48. 2012 ‘The Wondrous East in the Renaissance Geographical Imagination: Marco Polo, Fra Mauro and Giovanni Battista Ramusio’, History and Anthropology, 23:2, 215-34. 2012 ‘From Maps to Mummy-Curses: Rethinking Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology’ (with Neil L. Whitehead), History and Anthropology, 23:2, 173-82. 2011 ‘America and Amerindians in Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographiae universalis libri VI, 1550’, Renaissance Studies, 25:3, 351-73. 2003 ‘The Navigational Iconography of Diogo Ribeiro’s 1529 Vatican Planisphere’, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 55, 103-112. 2001 ‘Agency and Awareness in Cross-Cultural Encounters’, Terrae Incognitae: Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 34, 1-16. Chapters in edited books 2012 ‘The Unlucky, the Bad and the Ugly: Categories of Monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment’, Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, ed. Asa Simon Mittman with Peter Dendle (Farnham & Burlington, VT), 49-75. 2012 ‘L’Iconographie des nouveau mondes’, transl. Laurent Bury, in L’âge d’or des cartes marines - Quand l’Europe découvrait le monde, ed. C. Hofmann et al. (Paris), 160-71. Surekha Davies, Ph.D. 3 September 2016 Commissioned articles and book chapters in progress ‘Diagrams, not Decorations: Reading the Imagery on Pierre Desceliers’s 1550 World Map’, for History of Science. ‘Technology’ for A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance, ed. James Symonds, vol. 3 of A Cultural History of Objects, ed. Dan Hicks and William Whyte, 6 vols. (Bloomsbury Publishing; to be submitted in August 2017; publication scheduled for 2019). Articles in preparation ‘Explaining Blackness: John Bulwer’s Anthropometamorphosis and Early Modern Anatomy’. ‘Against the Grain: Towards a Historical Anthropology of Indigenous Technology’. Book reviews for: Times Literary Supplement, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Early Modern History, William & Mary Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, Isis, Early Science and Medicine, Urban History, European History Quarterly, Intellectual History Review, Art History, Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. SELECTED INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINAR PAPERS 2017 Guest Lecturer, NEH Summer Institute, ‘Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World (1400-1800)’, June 28-9, Indiana University. 2017 Guest speaker, ‘Futures of the Past’ new books symposium, February 17, George Washington University. 2016 ‘Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human’, Paris Early Modern Seminar, Dec 16, Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, France. 2016 ‘Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, and Encounters with Indigenous Artefacts’, Hakluyt & the Renaissance Discovery of the World conference, Nov 24, University of Oxford. 2016 ‘Collecting Technology in the Age of Empire’, Early Modern History Workshop, Nov 30, Princeton University. 2016 ‘Inventing the Brazilian Cannibal: Maps, Print Culture and Ethnogenesis, International History Workshop, Nov 9, Columbia University. 2016 ‘Thinking with Maps: Ethnography, Visual Culture and Knowledge’, Sept 22, Duke University, Durham, NC. Surekha Davies, Ph.D. 4 September 2016 2016 ‘Monstrous Geography and Environmental History’, keynote lecture, Promises of Monsters conference, April 28-29, University of Stavanger, Norway. 2016 ‘Visible Bodies to Invisible Minds: Renaissance Maps and the Invention of Race’, Depicting the Invisible: Science and Image in the Early Modern World’, Feb. 12-13, Princeton University. 2015 Speaker and discussant, ‘Where was Europe?’, Baroque Galleries salon series, Dec. 15, V&A Museum, London, UK. 2015 ‘West is East: The Wondrous East and the Problem of the Pacific in Sixteenth-Century Geography’, Play and Display in the Early Modern Hispanic World conference, May 15-16, Princeton University. 2015 ‘Mapping Ethnography and Science in the Early Americas’, John Carter Brown Library Fellows’ Reunion and Jamboree, seminar convenor, May 1-3, Brown University. 2015 Response to Kären Wigen’s ‘Where in the World? Mapmaking at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900’, Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, April 7-9, Harvard University. 2015 ‘Amazons, Headless Men and Sir Walter Ralegh: Historicizing Wondrous Epistemologies in Renaissance Texts, Maps and Images’, Work-in-Progress talks, Folger Shakespeare Library, Feb 12, Washington, DC. 2015 ‘Spit-Roasts or Barbecues? Mapping Brazilian Cannibals’, Early Modern Global History Workshop, Jan. 30, Georgetown University. 2014 ‘Monstrous Knowledge in the Age of Exploration: The Case of “Imaginary” Monsters’, Symposium on Monsters, Nov. 14, George Washington University. 2014 ‘Sir Walter Ralegh’s Headless Men: Wonder, Observation and Credibility in the Renaissance’, JCB Talks series, July 9, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. 2014 ‘What is a Werewolf? Genres, Practices and Cataloguing Monsters from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution’, Early Sciences Working Group/Early Modern History and Book History workshops, April 17, Harvard University. 2014 ‘Mapping Nature’s Variety: Vision and Comparison in Renaissance Ethnology’, University Seminar in the Renaissance, March 11, Columbia University. 2013 ‘Making Meaning out of Monsters: Observations, Ethnography and the Epistemology of New World Wonders, 1500-1600’, Fellows’ Talks series, July 24, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. 2013 ‘Mapping the Peoples of the
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