SUREKHA DAVIES InterAmericas Fellow, John Carter Brown Library Brown University, Box 1894, Providence RI 02912 website: surekhadavies.org PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Assistant Professor, History, Department of History & Non-Western Cultures, Professorship Western Connecticut State University; awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor in May 2018 (2012-18; resigned after the award of tenure). Postdoctoral Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, fellowship Birkbeck, University of London (2009-2012). Curatorship Curator, Map Collections, The British Library, London (2000-6). EDUCATION PhD Combined Historical Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London (2009). Dissertation title: Representations of Amerindians on European Maps and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge, 1506-1624. MPhil History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (1998). BA (Hons.) History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (1996). PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS Book prizes 2017 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in History/Theology, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference. 2016 Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history, Journal of the History of Ideas. Finalist, 2018 Pickstone Prize for the best scholarly book in the history of science, British Society for the History of Science. Residential InterAmericas long-term fellowship, John Carter Brown Library (2018-9; 6 months). fellowships Mellon long-term fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library (2017-8; 9 months). (long-term) Dibner Hist. of Science long-term fellowship, Huntington Library (2017-8; declined). Residential Senior Fellowship, Descartes Centre for the History of Science and the Humanities, fellowships Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2019; three months). (short-term) Inaugural Virginia Stern Fellowship for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University (2019; four weeks). Visiting Scholarship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 3 months (2017). Hardison Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 3 months (2015). Jay I. Kislak Fellowship, Library of Congress, 4 months (2014). Jeannette D. Black Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, 2 months (2013). Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2 weeks (2006). Surekha Davies, Ph.D. 1 January 2019 External Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2018 and 2013). grants Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association (2013). Royal Historical Society, Conference Organizer Grant (2010). Journal of Early Modern History, Conference Organizer Grant (2010). Society for Renaissance Studies, Conference Grant (2010). Regional Board of Regents System-Wide Research Award for the Connecticut State award Universities (2016). Internal Faculty Research Grant, Connecticut State Universities-AAUP (annually, 2013-17). grants Faculty Development Grant, WCSU (annually, 2012-16). Minority Retention Fund, Research Grant, WCSU (annually, 2012-16). ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Book Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016; paperback 2017), 380pp. Winner: Roland H. Bainton Prize and Morris D. Forkosch Prize. Finalist: Pickstone Prize. Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement, American Historical Review, Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, Global Intellectual History, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Imago Mundi: International Journal in the History of Cartography, Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, American Association of Geographers Review of Books, Art History, Quaerendo, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Jesuit Studies, European History Quarterly, Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche filosofiche e materiali storico-testuali, Choice; Somatechnics. Journal issues Science, New Worlds and the Classical Tradition, 1450-1850, special double issue, Journal of edited Early Modern History, 18:1-2 (2014). Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology: Continuities and Ruptures, special issue, History and Anthropology, 23:2 (2012), co-edited with Neil L. Whitehead. Peer-reviewed ‘Science, New Worlds and the Classical Tradition: An Introduction’, Journal of Early articles Modern History, 18:1 (2014), 1-13. Depictions of Brazilians on French Maps, 1542-1555’, The Historical Journal, 55:2 (2012), 217-48. ‘The Wondrous East in the Renaissance Geographical Imagination: Marco Polo, Fra Mauro and Giovanni Battista Ramusio’, History and Anthropology, 23:2 (2012), 215-34. ‘From Maps to Mummy-Curses: Rethinking Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology’ (with Neil L. Whitehead), History and Anthropology, 23:2 (2012), 173-82. ‘America and Amerindians in Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographiae universalis libri VI, 1550’, Renaissance Studies, 25:3 (2011), 351-73. ‘The Navigational Iconography of Diogo Ribeiro’s 1529 Vatican Planisphere’, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 55 (2003), 103-112. Surekha Davies, Ph.D. 2 January 2019 ‘Agency and Awareness in Cross-Cultural Encounters’, Terrae Incognitae: Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 34 (2002), 1-16. Roundtable ‘Monster Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Mark Bould, Liv Bugge, Surekha Davies, Margrit Shildrick and Jeffrey Weinstock’, ed. Donna MacCormack in Somatechnics 8.2 (2018), 248-68. Book chapter ‘The Unlucky, the Bad and the Ugly: Categories of Monstrosity from the (published) Renaissance to the Enlightenment’, Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, ed. Asa Simon Mittman (Farnham & Burlington, VT, 2012), 49-75. Book chapters ‘Technology’ for A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance, ed. James Symonds, vol. (submitted) 3 of A Cultural History of Objects (submitted to Bloomsbury; publication scheduled for Dec. 2019). ‘Maps’ for Princeton Companion to the History of Information, ed. Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja Goeing and Anthony Grafton (Princeton UP; submitted Oct. 1, 2018). Book chapter ‘Cabinets of Curiosities and the Order of Nature’, for Early Modern Things: Objects and in progress their Histories, 1500-1800, ed. Paula Findlen, expanded ed. (submitting Apr. 2019). Book project Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire: Spaces of Disruption, 1550-1725 (in progress). Book reviews Times Literary Supplement, Isis, Early Science and Medicine, Hispanic American Historical (academic & Review, William & Mary Quarterly, Journal of Early Modern History, Renaissance Quarterly, trade) Renaissance Studies, European History Quarterly, Intellectual History Review, Art History, Urban History, Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers, Imago Mundi. INVITED LECTURES AND PAPERS (selected) Keynote ‘Global Encounters and Art History, 1450-1750’, in ‘Art History: Decentred, lectures & Recentred’, the Frank Davis Memorial Lectures, Courtauld Institute of Art, distinguished University of London (2018). invitations ‘Epistemic Images in the Global Renaissance’, keynote lecture, ‘Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World’ annual conference, Minneapolis, MN (2018). Visiting Scholar, ‘Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World’, NEH Summer Institute, Indiana University (2017). Keynote lecture, ‘Monstrous Geography and Environmental History’, Promises of Monsters conference, University of Stavanger, Norway (2016). Respondent to Kären Wigen’s ‘Where in the World? Mapmaking at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900’, Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, Harvard University (2015). ‘Mapping Ethnography and Science in the Early Americas’, John Carter Brown Library Fellows’ Jamboree seminar convenor, Brown University (2015). ‘Monstrous Knowledge in the Age of Exploration: The Case of “Imaginary” Monsters’, Symposium on Monsters, George Washington University (2014). Surekha Davies, Ph.D. 3 January 2019 ‘Thomas Harriot, John White and the Invention of the Algonquian Indian’, Annual Thomas Harriot Lecture, Oriel College, University of Oxford (2011). International ‘Collecting Artifacts and Inventing the Indigenous c.1800’, ‘Global Natural History invited talks around 1800: Collections, Media and Pedagogy’ conference, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen (2017). ‘Caribs, Arawaks and Tupi: Caribbean Ethnogenesis and European Cartography’, Latin America’s Global History lecture series, Universität zu Köln (2017). ‘New Worlds, Indigenous Technologies and European Cabinets of Curiosities’, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (2017). ‘Historical Anthropology and Early Modern Maps’, Enlightenment Reading Group, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2017). ‘Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human’, Paris Early Modern Seminar, Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, Paris (2016). ‘Hakluyt, the Principal Navigations, and Encounters with Indigenous Artifacts’, Hakluyt & the Renaissance Discovery of the World conference, University of Oxford (2016). ‘Geography, Cartography and Monstrosity in the East in Sixteenth-century Europe’ Construction de l’Orient seminar, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (2012). ‘Global Knowledge Networks, 1500-1800’, Situating Early Modern Science workshop, University of Saskatchewan (2012). ‘Wonder, Headless Men and the Ethnography of Guiana, 1596-1619’, New World of Secrets: The Hermeneutics of Discovery in the Early Americas seminar, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (2012). ‘Imagined Communities: Ethnography and the Caribbean in the Early Modern Imagination’, Early Modern Cultural Geographies series,