Emily Berquist Assistant Professor of Colonial Latin American History California State University, Long Beach Department of History 1250 Bellflower Boulevard Long Beach, California 90840 eberquis@csulb.edu Education: The University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. in History, August 2007 Dissertation: The Science of Empire: Bishop Martínez Compañón and the Enlightenment in Peru. Supervisors: Susan Deans-Smith (Chair), Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Ann Twinam The University of Texas at Austin M.A. in History, May 2002 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York B.A. with Honors in History. Minor in Hispanic Studies, May 1997 Refereed Articles: Bishop Martínez Compañón s Practical Utopia in Enlightenment Peru, Forthcoming January 2008, The Americas Other Scholarly Publications: The Viceroyalty of Peru, and The War for Independence in Peru, The World and Its Peoples. London: Brown Reference, forthcoming Review of José Eusebio Llano Zapata, Memorias histórico, físicas, crítico, apologéticas de la América Meridional, eds. Ricardo Ramírez, et.al. The Americas, forthcoming Nature and Science in the Early Modern Iberian World, review article, forthcoming, Itinerario Teaching Experience: Assistant Professor, Colonial Latin American History California State University, Long Beach, August 2007 -
Instructor, Modern Latin American History Syracuse University, New York, Spring 2006 Supplemental Instructor, United States from 1865 University of Texas, Fall 2002 Teaching Assistant, African History University of Texas, Spring 2007 Teaching Assistant, Mexican-American History University of Texas, Fall 2006 Teaching Assistant, African-American History University of Texas, Fall 2001 & Spring 2007 Teaching Assistant, Eighteenth-Century European History University of Texas, Summer 2003 Teaching Assistant, United States to 1865 University of Texas, Summer 2006 Teaching Assistant, United States from 1865 University of Texas, various semesters Fellowships & Awards: Fulbright Fellowship for Dissertation Research in the Western Hemisphere, Bogotá, Colombia; Lima & Trujillo, Peru. 2003-2004 John Brockway Huntington Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, July 2007 Maury A. Bromsen Short-Term Research Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, scheduled for June-July 2008 Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica (Spanish Council of Scientific Research), housing grant, Seville, 2005 Embassy of Spain Program for Cultural Cooperation Fellowship, Madrid, 2005 Gardner F. Marston Fellowship for Dissertation Research, University of Texas, declined in favor of Fulbright Dora Bonham Fellowship for Short-Term Dissertation Research in Basque Country, University of Texas, declined due to time constraints Carlos E. Castañeda Scholarship, University of Texas, Madrid & Seville, 2005 Dora Bonham Fellowship for Dissertation Research, University of Texas, Madrid & Seville, 2005 2
Centennial Grant for Graduate Student Professional Development, University of Texas, conference travel grant for presenting papers at Gender Across Borders Conference at Brown University and New England Council of Latin American Studies, 2005 FLAS Fellowship, Cornell University, Quechua Language study in Bolivia, Summer 2001 FLAS Fellowship, University of Texas, Portuguese Study, Summer 2002 Conference Presentations: American Historical Association/American Catholic Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January 2007. Presenter, Indians as Enlightened Plebe: The Improvement Projects of Bishop Martínez Compañón in Trujillo, Peru. International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, MA The Transit of Christianity, 1500-1825, August 2006. Invited Presenter, Martínez Compañón s Living Laboratory of Enlightenment in Trujillo, Peru. Atlantic History Workshop, University of Texas, April 2007. Opening remarks for seminar on Sir John Elliott s Empires of the Atlantic World. Atlantic History Workshop, University of Texas, TX, October 2006. Presenter, Martínez Compañón s Living Laboratory of Enlightenment in Trujillo, Peru. American Historical Association/Conference on Latin American History, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006. Organizer of Panel entitled Visual Culture as Historical Documentation: New Approaches to the History of Colonial Latin America. Presenter: Imagining the New World: A Spanish Bishop and Peruvian Indians Represent Colonial Trujillo, Peru. New York State Latin American Historians Workshop, Binghamton University, NY, October 2005. Invited Presenter, Imagining the New World: A Spanish Bishop and Peruvian Indians Represent Colonial Trujillo, Peru. New England Council of Latin American Studies, Bowdoin College, ME, October 2005. Presenter, Imagining the New World: A Spanish Bishop and Peruvian Indians Represent Colonial Trujillo, Peru. Gender Across Borders, Brown University, RI, May 2005. Presenter, Gentlemen Friends Far From Home: Enlightened Masculinity in the Personal Correspondence of a Bourbon Bishop in Peru. Fulbright Andean Regional Conference, Lima, Peru, April 2004. Presenter, Imagining the New World: Bishop Martínez Compañón and the Hispanic Enlightenment in Peru. 3
Academic Service: Co-Chair, Distinguished Speakers in Latin American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2001-2002. Orchestrated visits of Jorge Cañizares, Ann Twinam, and Alida Metcalf. Cañizares and Twinam later joined the faculty at Texas. Second Year Representative, History Graduate Student Council, University of Texas at Austin, 2001-2002. Organized a meeting with graduate students and Program Advisors to review program requirements and share expertise about finishing the Ph.D. Language Proficiency: Excellent Spanish, reading knowledge of Portuguese, beginning knowledge of Quechua Professional Experience: Travel & Leisure Magazine, New York, NY. Editorial Assistant, 1997-1999. Societies & Associations: Teaching Interests: American Catholic Historical Association, American Historical Association, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Conference on Latin American History. (syllabi available upon request) Introductory Courses: History of Colonial Latin America History of Modern Latin America Mexican-American History Upper Level (Senior or Graduate) Reading Courses: Religion in Colonial Latin America Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 The Science of Empire: Ideas, Science, and Politics in the Age of Spanish Imperialism Upper Level (Senior or Graduate) Research Courses: History of Gender and Sexuality in Latin America History of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (or Latin America) The Atlantic World: Paradigms and Approaches Viracocha to the Shining Path: The History of Peru Additional areas of teaching interest: Colonizing the Americas: A Comparative Study of Colonial Ventures in North and South America History of Mexico Independence of Spanish America The Afro-Lusitanian Atlantic: Africa, Portugal, and Brazil Science in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 4
The Book in Early Modern Atlantic World Art, Culture, and Ideas in Bourbon Spain The Enlightenment 5