JANE GILMER LANDERS
Home: 817 Rodney Drive Office: Department of History, VU Station B # 351802
Nashville, TN 37205 Vanderbilt University
Phone: (615) 356-7542 Nashville, TN 37235-1802
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Grants Officer, Vanderbilt International Office, 2006-2007
Associate Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, 2004-
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University, 2001-2004
Interim Director, Study Abroad Office, Vanderbilt University, 2001-2002
Director, Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Vanderbilt University, 2000-2002
Associate Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, 1999-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, 1992-1999
National Director, History Teaching Alliance, 1998-1991
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Florida, 1988-1991
EDUCATION
University of Florida, Ph.D. Latin American Colonial History, 1988
University of Miami, M.A. Inter-American Studies, 1974
B.A. Hispanic American Studies, 1968 cum laude
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 2005-6
Frances B. Simkins Prize, Distinguished First Book in Southern History,Black Society in Spanish Florida, Southern Historical Association, 2001
Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Research & Travel Grant, 2001
Lydia Cabrera Award, Research & Travel Grant to Spain, Conference on Latin American History, 2000
Direct Research Support Grant, Vanderbilt University, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1997
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellow, 1993-4, 1996-7, 2000-1
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities, Research & Travel Grants to Spain, 1995, 1998
Commendation, African American Heritage of Florida, American Association of State and Local History, 1996
Rembert Patrick Book Award, African American Heritage of Florida, Florida Historical Society, 1995
Florida Sesquicentennial Commission Sponsorship, African American Heritage of Florida, 1995
Small Grants Award, University Research Council, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2006
Latin American Microform Project, Travel Grant to Cuba, 1994
Lilly Teaching Fellow, 1994-95
Vanderbilt University Research Council Summer Award, 1993, 1996, 1999
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1991-92
The Florida Historical Society President's Prize, "Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose", 1988 Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericano (Fulbright), Research & Travel Grant to Spain, 1984
University of Florida, Travel and Research Grant, 1984; Graduate Fellowship, 1982-83
PUBLICATIONS: Books
A History of the Atlantic World, 1400-1888, with Alison Games, Douglas R. Egerton, Kris E. Lane and Donald R. Wright (Harlan Davidson, 2007).
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America, ed. Jane G. Landers and Barry M. Robinson (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006).
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida, ed. Jane G. Landers (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000).
Black Society in Spanish Florida (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999).
Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas, ed. Jane Landers (London: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., 1996).
The African American Heritage of Florida, ed. David Colburn and Jane Landers (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995).
Florida (New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1994).
Books in Progress
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (Harvard University Press, in progress.)
African Kingdoms, Black Republics, and Free Black Towns in the Colonial Circum-Caribbean (in progress).
Book Chapters in Progress
"A Nation Divided: Free Blacks and Indians on the Florida Frontier", Coastal Encounters: Confrontations, Accommodations, and Transformations in the Eighteenth-Century Gulf South, ed. Richmond E. Brown (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).
Book Chapters
"Transforming Bondsmen into Vassals: Arming the Slaves in Colonial Spanish America", Arming Slaves in World History, ed. Philip Morgan and Christopher Brown (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 120-45.
"Una cruzada Americana: expediciones españolas contra los cimarrones en el siglo XVII", Pautas de convivencia étnica en la América Latina colonial (indios, negros, pardos y esclavos), ed. Juan Manuel d"e la Serna Herrera (Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F., 2005), 73-87.
"Leadership and Authority in Maroon Settlements in Spanish America and Brazil", Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade, ed. José C. Curto and Renée Soulodre-La France (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005), 173-184.
"Africans and Indians on the Spanish Southeastern Frontier", Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America, ed. Matthew Restall (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 53-80.
"Social Control on Spain's Contested Florida Frontier", Choice, Persuasion and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontier, ed. Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 27-48.
"Maroon Women in Spanish America," Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Slave Societies of the Americas, ed. David Barry Gaspar and Darlene C. Hine (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 3-18.
“Southern Passage: The Forgotten Route to Freedom,” Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in American History and Memory, ed. David Blight (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004), 117-31.
"The Central African Presence in Spanish Maroon Societies", in Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora, ed. Linda M. Heywood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 227-41.
"Conspiradores esclavizados en Colombia en el siglo XVII", Afrodescendientes en las américas: trayectorias sociales e identitarias: 150 años de la abolición de la esclavitud en Colombia, ed. Claudia Mosquera, Mauricio Pardo and Odile Hoffman (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2002), 181-93.
"La cultura material de los cimarrones: los casos de Ecuador, La Española, México y Colombia", Rutas de la esclavitud en África y América Latina, ed. Rina Cáceres (San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001), 145-56.
"Cimarrón Ethnicity and Cultural Adaptation in the Spanish Domains of the Circum-Caribbean, 1503-1763", Identity in the Shadow of Slavery, ed. Paul E. Lovejoy (London: Continuum, 2000), 30-54.
"Felipe Edimboro Sues for Manumission", Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850, ed. Geoffrey Spurling and Richard Boyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 249-68.
"Fort Mose: Earliest Free African-American Town in the United States", with Kathleen A. Deagan, 'I Too, Am America': Archaeological Studies of African-American Life, ed. Theresa A. Singleton (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999), 261-82.
"African and African American Women and Their Pursuit of Rights Through Eighteenth-Century Spanish Texts", Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, ed. Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998), 56-76.
"In Consideration of Her Enormous Crime: Rape and Infanticide in Spanish St. Augustine," The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, ed. Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 205-17.
"Rebellion and Royalism in Spanish Florida: The French Revolution on Spain’s Northern Colonial Frontier," A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean, ed. David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997), 156-77.
"Acquisition and Loss on a Spanish Frontier: The Free Black Homesteaders of Florida, 1784-1821," in Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas, ed. Jane Landers (London: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., 1996), 85-101.
“Free and Enslaved," in The New History of Florida, ed. Michael Gannon (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996), 167-82.
"Traditions of African American Freedom and Community in Spanish Florida," in The African American Heritage of Florida, ed. David Colburn and Jane Landers (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995), 17-41.
"Africans in the Land of Ayllón: The Exploration and Settlement of the Southeast," in Columbus and the Land of Ayllón, ed. Jeannine Cook (Darien: Lower Altamaha Historical Society, 1992), 105-23.
"Francisco Xavier Sánchez--Floridano Planter,” in Spanish Pathways in Florida, ed. Ann L. Henderson and Gary R. Mormino (Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, Inc., 1991), 168-87.
"African Presence in Early Spanish Colonization," in Columbian Consequences. Volume 2. Archaeology and History of the Spanish Borderlands East, ed. David Hurst Thomas (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990), 315-27.
Articles
“Slavery in Ecclesiastical Archives: Preserving the Records,” Hispanic American Historical Review, with Mariza Soares, Paul E. Lovejoy, and Andrew McMichael, 86:2 (May, 2006): 337-346.
"Cimarrones africanos e indios en la frontera española con los Estados Unidos. El caso de los Seminoles negros en La Florida," Memoria e Sociedad, Diásporas Afroamericanas: Escenarios históricos, diálogos Atlánticos, balances y perspectivas 7 (November 2003):25-36.
"La cultura material de los cimarrones: estudios de casos en Ecuador, La Española, México y Colombia," El Caribe Arqueológico 7 (2003):2-10.
"Resistencia africana y trata de esclavos en el Caribe hispánico," Revista del Caribe 40 (2003): 32-46.
"Slavery in the Lower South," OAH Magazine of American History, 17, no. 3 (April 2003):23-7.
"Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Colonial Florida," American Historical Review 95 (February 1990): 9-30; Reprinted in:
Colonial America: Essays in Political and Social Development, ed. Stanley Katz, John Murrin, and Douglas Greenberg (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001);
The World of Unfree Labour, ed. Colin Palmer (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 1999);
A Question of Manhood: A Reader in Black Masculinity in the United States, ed. Darlene Clark Hine and Earnestine Jenkins (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999);
'How Sweet the Sound': The Spirit of African American History, ed. Nancy-Elizabeth Fitch (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999);
Major Problems in American Colonial History, ed. Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Boston: DC Heath and Company, 1993), 337-348.
"Female Conflict and Its Resolution in Eighteenth-Century St. Augustine," The Americas 54:4 (April, 1998): 557-74.
"Black Community and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands," Journal of the Early Republic 18:1 (Spring, 1998): 117-34.
"Africans in the Spanish Colonies," Historical Archaeology 31, no. 1 (1997): 84-91.
"Acquisition and Loss on a Spanish Frontier: The Free Black Homesteaders of Florida, 1784-1821," Slavery and Abolition 17, no. 1 (April 1996): 85-101.
"An Eighteenth-Century Community in Exile: the Floridanos of Cuba," New West Indian Guide 70, no. 1 & 2 (Spring 1996): 39-58; in translation, “Una comunidad del siglo XVIII en el exilio: los floridanos en Cuba," Del Caribe 44 (2004):53-61.
"Slave Resistance on the Southern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolutions," El Escribano (1995):12-24; Reprinted in Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies, eds. Jon Smith and Deborah Cohen (Duke University Press, 2004), 80-93.
"Black-Indian Interaction in Spanish Florida," Colonial Latin American Historical Review 3 (Spring 1993): 141-162.
"An Examination of Racial Conflict and Cooperation in Spanish St. Augustine: The Career of Jorge Biassou, Black Caudillo," El Escribano 25 (December 1988): 85-100.
"Spanish Sanctuary: Fugitives in Florida 1784-1790," Florida Historical Quarterly (January 1984): 296-313; Reprinted in: America's Ancient City, Spanish St. Augustine: 1565-1763, ed. Kathleen A. Deagan (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991).
Encyclopedia Articles
“Francisco Menéndez”, “Jorge Biassou”, ”Prince Witten”, Juan Garrido”, African-American National Biography, ed. Skip Gates (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); “Cimarrones”, “Palenques” in Encyclopedia of Iberian-American Relations, ed. J. Michael Francis (ABC-Clio, 2006); "Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose," in Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, ed. Colin Palmer (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan, 2005); "Manumission," "Coartación," "Peonage," and "Concubinage: Latin America," in Encyclopedia of World Slavery, ed. Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller (New York: Macmillan, 1999); "Francisco Menéndez," Black & Indian Militias," "Forts Picolata & San Francisco de Pupo," and "Battle of St. Augustine," in Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763, ed. Alan Gallay (NY: Garland, 1996).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Offices and Committees
Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Executive Committee, 2007- ;
Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, International Advisory Board, 2000-2007
American Historical Association, Nominating Committee, 2006-09, Chair, 2008-9; Atlantic History Prize Committee, 2002-05, Chair, 2003
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University, Frederick Douglass Book Prize Committee, 2006
Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Executive Committee, 2002-04; President, 2000-02; Vice-President and Program Chair, 1998-2000
Conference on Latin American History, Distinguished Service Award Committee, 2007; Lydia Cabrera Award Committee, 2000; Nominating Committee, 1994, 1999
Southern Historical Association, Nominating Committee, 2002, Chair 2003; Membership Committee, 1992; Program Committee, Latin American & Caribbean Section, 2003
African Studies Association, Local Arrangements Committee, 2000
Association of Caribbean Historians, Nominating Committee, 1999
American Studies Association, Local Arrangements Committee, 1994
Southern Association for Women Historians, Program Committee, 1993
American Society for Ethnohistory, Nominations Committee,1991
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Editorial Boards & Research Affiliations
Historic St. Augustine Research Institute at Flagler College, Research Associate 2007-2010
The Americas, Editorial Board, 2003-
Slavery & Abolition, Editorial Board, 1998-; Guest Editor, Special Issue, "Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas," April 1996
Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Editorial Board, 1993-; Guest Editor, Special Issue, "Africans in Latin American Colonial History," Spring 1994
Florida Southern College, Center for Florida History, Board of Advisors, 2000-
Florida Historical Quarterly, Editorial Advisory Board, 1993-2002
Afro-Latin American Review, Editorial Board, 1996-99
Southern Exposure, Advisor, Quincentenary Issue on Southeastern Indians, Spring 1992
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Major Grants Written and Funded
“Multicultural Diversity, Social Inequality, and the Pursuit of Health in Brazil and the United States”, Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education, $42,158 to Vanderbilt, March 2007
"Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on the African Diaspora in Brazil and Cuba",
National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, $150,000, May 2003
"Race, Development, and Social Inequality: Developing Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Curricula in Brazil and the United States”, Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education, $430,000 ($130, 874 to Vanderbilt), October 2002
"Bill of Rights Education Collaborative, Pew Charitable Trust, $100,000, June 1991
"History Teaching Alliance Collaboratives,@ National Endowment for the Humanities, Challenge Grant, $900,000 May 1989
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Projects Directed
“Ecclesiastical Sources for Slave Societies”, digitalization of earliest black church records in Brazil, Cuba, and the Circum-Caribbean, 2003-
“Multicultural Diversity, Social Inequality, and the Pursuit of Health in Brazil and the United States”, student exchange program, 2006-
“Race, Development, and Social Inequality in Brazil and the United States, student-exchange program and creation of an electronic course , 2002-2007
Latin American Microform Project, microfilming earliest black church records in Cuba, 1994
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Invited Public Lectures and Addresses:
“The Impact of the British Abolition in Cuba”, Slavery, Memory, Citizenship Symposium, The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University, Toronto, March, 2007
“Corporatism as a Vehicle for Building Black Communities in Colonial Spanish America”, Community Building and Identity Formation in the African Diaspora, Boston University, March, 2007
“Contested Histories: African Diaspora Studies in the Spanish circum-Caribbean,” Keynote address, Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean Conference, Louisiana State University, March, 2007.
“Ecclesiastical Sources for Slave Society in Cuba, “Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, January, 2007
Black Society in Spanish Florida, Miami International Book Fair, November 2006
“Alternative Visions and Failed Transformations: Late Seventeenth Century Rebellions in the Americas,” at Transformations: the Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century, Harvard University, March 2006
“Juan Bautista Witten, Formerly Known as Big Prince: An African in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, August 2005; Rethinking the History of the American South: Honoring a Master, A Conference in Honor of Bertram Wyatt Brown, University of Florida, October 2005;Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2005; University of Virginia, March 2006 Keynote address, SECOLAS and Africana Studies Conferences, UNCC, April, 2006; Campbell University, February 2007; St. Augustine Historical Research Institute, March 2007
“Sacramental Records in Cuba and Brazil, “Memory and Methodology: Workshop on the African Diaspora, Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, York University, July 2005
“Historiography of the Spanish Slave Societies,” Slavery from Within: Comparative Perspectives and Legacies in the Atlantic World, Roosevelt Study Center, Middleburg, the Netherlands, June 2005
"Freedom in the Florida Territory", Underground Railroad Conference, Keynote presentation,University of Miami, February 2004
"The Circulation of Ideas Among Atlantic Creoles in Nineteenth-Century Cuba," A NYU Atlantic History Workshop, September 2003; Literary Manifestations of the African Diaspora, Accra, Ghana, 2003
"Prince Witten: An African Creole in the Era of Revolutions" Keynote address, 25th Mid-America Conference on History, University of Memphis, September 2003
"Buscando os Africanos na Documentação Histórica: Métodos e Fontes Novos," Escravidão Africana
& Tráfico Atlântico nas Américas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, July 2003
"Spanish Sources for Subaltern Studies from around the Gulf of Mexico," Keynote address, In and Around the Gulf of Mexico, University of Southern Mississippi, April 2003
"A Nation Divided: Free Blacks and Indians on the Florida Frontier," Charles M. Andrews Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, September, 2002; Charles Mahan Symposium, University of South Alabama, March 2003;
"Fugitive Slaves and Resistance in Florida," Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in American History and Legend, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., 2003
"Sacramental Records and the Reconstruction of African History in Cuba," Religion Across the Atlantic Symposium, Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, Toronto, September 2002
"Workshop on Database Construction and the African Diaspora," Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, Toronto, July 2002
"More Than Chattel: Africans in the Spanish Colonial World," King Juan Carlos I of Spain Lecture Series, New York University, May 2002
"Inhabiting Multiple Identities: Africans in the Spanish circum-Caribbean," Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Conference, Vanderbilt University, 2002
"Social Control on Spain's Contested Florida Frontier," William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, April 2002
"Slave Conspirators in 17th Century Colombia," Black Atlantic/African Diaspora Seminar, Rutgers University, October 2001
"Slavery and Defense in the Colonial Borderlands," Gilder Lehrman Center International Conference, Yale University, New Haven, 2000
"Spanish Florida", NEH Summer Teachers Institute, The Founding of Jamestown & its Atlantic Context, Folger Library, June 2000
"African Women in the Diaspora: The Spanish Experience," Dakar, Senegal, 2000
"Resources for African and Indigenous History in Spanish Caribbean Archives," International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, 1999
"Black Kingdoms/ Black Republics," Harriet Tubman Seminar, York University, Toronto, 1999
"Material Culture of the Maroons," Early Modern Seminar, University of Kansas, 1999
"African Resistance and the Slave Trade in the Spanish Caribbean," Transatlantic Slaving and the African Diaspora Using the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Dataset of Slaving Voyages, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, 1998
"Africans and Native Americans on the Southeastern Colonial Frontier," Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Historical Perspectives on the African Diaspora, Smithsonian Institution, September 1992
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Consultation, Public History Outreach
Historical Consultant, Ft. Mose: Symbol of Freedom Visitor Center Exhibit, 2007-
Historical Consultant, Kingsley Plantation Exhibit, Ft. George Island, Florida, 2007
Lead Scholar, NEH Landmarks in American History Seminar, St. Augustine, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Early American History Website, African Americans, 16-18th Centuries, National Park Service, 2006
"Francisco Menéndez," Footsteps: African American Heritage (Cobblestone Publication, 2005)
Commentator, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, Book Manuscript Workshop, 2005
Historical Consultant, AThe Seminole Wars,@ documentary series, Mindflow Media, Inc.
Historical Consultant, AThe Underground Railroad @ National Park Service study
Advisory Board, Virtual Jamestown
Advisory Board, Virtual St. Augustine
Historical Consultant, AAfrican Americans at the Belle Meade Plantation”, Nashville
Historical Consultant, AA Muted Heritage: African American & Native American Interactions and Relations in the Southeast, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis
Historical Consultant, AThe Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: A View of the Transatlantic Passage in Trade, 1650-1750," Mel Fisher Maritime Museum
Historical Consultant, "The Florida Story," documentary series, Florida Public Broadcasting Service, Inc.
Historical Consultant, San Luis Archaeological and Historic Site, Florida Department of State
Historical Consultant, African Diaspora & Africa Catalog, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Historical Consultant, "Black Warriors of the Seminole," Documentary, WUFT, winner of the Suncoast Regional Emmy
Historical Consultant, "Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom," Exhibit & Catalogue, Florida Museum of Natural History
Historical Consultant, Florida Heritage Education Project, Florida Department of State
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Media Interviews
"Black Seminoles,” The Seminole Wars, documentary series, Mindflow Media, Inc.
“Great Explorers,” Videoconference, Vanderbilt Virtual School, 2004
Legacy Research Institute, University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College, 2004
Afrigeneas Electronic Forum, 2003
The History Channel, "Underground Railroad," 1999
Florida PBS, "The Florida Story," 1999
National Geographic, 1997
WMAZ-TV, Macon, GA, "Guest Editorial," 1994
University of Georgia, "Land of Ayllón," 1992
SCTV, Columbia, SC, "Quincentenary Minutes," 1992
Florida Crossroads, "The Unfinished Journey," 1992
"Black Warriors of the Seminole," WUFT, 1989
CBS Television, "Nightwatch," 1989
WHUR Radio, Howard University, 1989
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Review and Evaluation: Research Proposals
National Endowment for the Humanities, Review Panelist
Collaborative Projects, 1994, 1997
Summer Seminars and Institutes, 1997
Interpretive Research Program, 1993
Media Programs, 1990
Secondary Education Programs, 1990
Travel to Collections Grants, 1989
Conference on Latin American History, Lydia Cabrera Award Committee, 2000
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Academic Advisory Committee, 1996, 1998; Fellows Selection Committee, 1993
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships, Regional Selection Committee, 1993-94
National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, 1993
Jay I. Kislak Foundation, Prize Committee, 1998, 1999, 2000
Review and Evaluation: Manuscripts
D C Heath and Company; Bedford/St. Martin's; Oxford University Press; Prentice-Hall; Scholarly Resources, Inc.; University Press of Florida; University of Pennsylvania Press; University Press of Mississippi; William and Mary Quarterly; Colonial Latin American Historical Review; Florida Historical Quarterly; Hispanic American Historical Review; Journal of the Early Republic; Journal of Southern History; Slavery & Abolition; Journal of American History; The Americas, Historia Crítica
Review and Evaluation: Books
The Journal of the Early Republic; Alabama Review; Colonial Latin American Historical Review; Florida Historical Quarterly; Georgia Historical Quarterly; Journal of Southern History; Pacific Historical Review
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Conference Panels, Organizer & panelist
Organizer & panelist, “Boundaries of Freedom and Coercion in Colonial Cuba and Colombia, Slavery. Unfinished Business, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, May 2007
Organizer & panelist,” Developments in African History: from Continental to Comparative Perspectives,” World History Association, Ifrane, Morocco, June 2005
Organizer & panelist AAfricans Negotiating Conflict in the Era of Revolutions," American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. January 2004
Organizer, AContesting Authority on Spanish Imperial Frontiers," Conference on Latin American History, Chicago, January 2003
Organizer & panelist” Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Spanish Colonies: Indians and Africans on the Social and Geographic Margins," Latin American Studies Association, Miami, September 2000
Organizer U.S. panels & panelist, AThe Slave Route in Latin America," University of Costa Rica, 1999
Organizer & chair, "Historical and Archaeological Collaboration and the Revision of Early-Contact History of the Circum-Caribbean," Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, January 1997
Organizer & panelist, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 1996
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: CONFERENCE PAPERS
“The Afro-Cuban Diaspora of the 1840s”, Unfinished Business, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, May 2007
“African Ethnicity and Corporate Organization in the Records of Black Brotherhoods in Colonial Cuba,” American Historical Association & Conference on Latin American History, Atlanta, January, 2007
“The Role of Black Cultural Brokers: Negotiating Indigenous Trade and Military Alliances in Spanish Florida” and “La repression de abolicionistas de color en Cuba en el siglo XIX, 52nd Congreso de Americanistas, Sevilla, July 2006
"State of the Field: Atlantic World", Organization of American Historians, San Jose, April 2005
"Crusaders and Pacifiers: Comparing Jesuit and Franciscan Accounts of 17th Century Maroons," Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, January 2005
"Africanos e indígenas em Cuba e na Florida colonial," Brazilian Studies Association, Rio, July 2004
"Repression of Free Blacks in Cuba Following Saint Domingue," American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 2004
"African Maroons and Indians on the Spanish Frontiers: the Case of the Black Seminoles," and "Slave Conspirators and Maroons in Seventeenth-Century Colombia," at 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, July 2003
"The Circulation of Ideas and Literature Among Atlantic Creoles in Nineteenth-Century Cuba," Association of Caribbean Historians, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2003
"Juan Bautista Witten, Formerly Known as Big Prince: An African in the Atlantic World," Presidential Address, Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Huntington Library, March 2002
"Conspiradores esclavizados en Colombia en el siglo XVII," Pasado, presente y futuro de los Afrodescendientes, University of Cartagena, Colombia, 2001
"African Diasporas and Zones of Refuge in the Spanish Borderlands," Conference on Latin American History, Boston, 2001
"Comparing Cultural and Material Traditions of Maroons in Brazil and Spanish America," Enslaving Connections: Africa and Brazil During the Era of the Slave Trade, York University, Toronto, 2000
"La lucha para el espacio, la autoridad, y la identidad: un análisis cultural de las guerras cimarronas en Colombia en el siglo XVII," XI Congreso Colombiano de Historia, Bogotá, 2000
"Maroon Ethnicity and Identity in Ecuador, Colombia, and Hispaniola, " Latin American Studies Association, Miami, 2000
"Maroon Women in Spanish America," Southern Historical Association, Ft. Worth, 1999
"The Kongo/Angola Presence in Spanish Maroon Communities," Bantu into Black: Central Africans in the Atlantic Diaspora, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1999
"A Separate Nation: Free Blacks and Indians on the Florida Frontier," Society for the History of the Early American Republic, Lexington, 1999
"The Material Culture of Maroons," The Slave Route in Latin America, University of Costa Rica, 1999
"Black Kingdoms/Black Republics: Maroon Communities and Their Transformations in 17th Century Colombia and Mexico," American Historical Association/Conference on Latin American History/Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Washington, 1999
"Interracial Piracy and Corsairing in Florida and the Greater Caribbean from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries," Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, 1998
"The Exile of the Black Auxiliaries of Carlos IV, Spain's Black Allies in the Haitian Revolution," The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, College of Charleston, 1998
"An American Crusade: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Expeditions Against the Maroons," Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Huntington Library, 1998
"Cimarrón and Citizen: African Ethnicity, Corporate Identity, and the Evolution of Free Black Towns in the Spanish circum-Caribbean," American Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City, 1997
"African Ethnicity and Culture in the Americas: The Historical and Archaeological Records," SSHRC/UNESCO Institute on Identifying Enslaved Africans, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1997
"Slaves and the Slave Trade in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Florida," at the West Africa and the Americas: Repercussions of the Slave Trade, UWI, Kingston, Jamaica, 1997
"Female Conflict in Eighteenth-Century St. Augustine," Conference on Latin American History, New York, 1997
"Human and Cultural Links in a Transatlantic Chain," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 1996 and Afro-Latin American Research Association, Bahia, Brazil, 1996
"Indians and Africans in Early Spanish Florida and Cuba," Association of Caribbean Historians, Barbados, 1996
"Recreated Forms: Family and African Militias in Spanish Florida," Association of Caribbean Historians, Guyana, 1995
"Francisco Xavier Sánchez: Floridano Planter," Southern Historical Association, Louisville, 1994
"Economic Activity and Free Black Property Ownership in Spanish Florida, 1784-1821," Association of Caribbean Historians, San German, Puerto Rico, 1994
"Choices, Concessions and Change for Africans in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Colonies," Society for Historical Archaeology, Vancouver, B.C., 1994
"An Eighteenth-Century Community in Exile: The Floridanos in Cuba," Conference on Latin American History, Washington, 1992
"African American Women and Their Pursuit of Rights in Eighteenth-Century Spanish St. Augustine," Association of Caribbean Historians, Nassau; American Society for Ethnohistory, Salt Lake City, 1992
"Cimarrones and Vecinos: African Communities in the Spanish Caribbean," Society for Historical Archaeology, Kingston, Jamaica, 1992
"Traditions of African American Freedom and Community in Spanish Colonial Florida," American Historical Association, New York, 1990
"Black/Indian Interaction in Spanish Florida," Organization of American Historians, Washington,1990
"African Presence in Early Spanish Colonization," Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, 1989
"Black/Yamassee Cooperation on the Colonial Southeast Frontier," American Society for Ethnohistory, Williamsburg, 1988
“The Paradox of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish Florida," American Historical Association, Washington, 1987
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Panel Comments
“Walking the Tightrope: Keeping Cuba española in the Age of Revolutions”, Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, September 2007
"Pragmatic Grounds for British Success: Conquest and Defense", The Struggle for the Americas, 1500- 1763, Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, August 2007
“Racial Borderlands,” Comparative Perspectives on North American Borderlands, Filson Historical Society, 2006
“Resistance and Rebellion on the Periphery,” History of Florida and the Atlantic World Conference,
Florida State University, 2006
"Shaping the Diaspora: Shifting Identities and Atlantic Counterpoints," The African Diaspora to Latin America: New Directions in Scholarship," Northwestern University, 2005
"Between Race & Place: Blacks and Blackness in Central America and the Mainland Caribbean@, Tulane University, 2004
"Saint Domingue on the Eve of Revolution: Free People of Color," The Haitian Revolution: Viewed 200 Years After, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 2004
"Indigenous Participation," Lost Colonies Conference, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
"Navigating Race & Ethnicity in Colonial Mexico,” SECOLAS, Santo Domingo, DR, 2004
"Africans in Colonial Latin America and the Circum-Caribbean," Southern Historical Association, Memphis, 2004
"The Indian South & Atlantic Perspectives," Southern Historical Association, Houston, 2003
"Thinking the Unthinkable: Constructing the Haitian Revolution in Early America," Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, New Orleans, 2003
"The Structure of Colonial Societies, 1500-1825", International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2002
"Inclusive Frontiers? The Many Faces of Social Control in 18th Century Spanish American Peripheries," Conference on Latin American History, San Francisco, 2001
"Slavery and Defense in the Colonial Borderlands," Gilder Lehrman Center International Conference, Yale University, New Haven, 2000
“Manumission in Spanish America,” Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World, College of Charleston, 2000
"Independence Wars and Slavery: The Course and Consequences of Slave Recruitment," Conference on Latin American History, Chicago, 2000
"Fashioning Identity in the Spanish Borderlands," Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1996
"Ethnohistory on the Spanish Imperial Fringe," Conference on Latin American History, 1990
Other invited presentations
Troy Academy, Miami, Florida Humanities Council, 2006
Santa Fe Community College, 2006
University of South Florida, 2003
Florida Southern College, 2002
Vanderbilt University, NEH Summer Teachers Institute on Race and Gender in Brazil, 2000
Tennessee State University, Distinguished Lecture Series, 1999
University of Florida, McAlister Lecture, 1998
Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee, 1997
University of Maine, Orono, Women’s History Lecture Series, 1995
Instituto Tavera, Madrid, 1995
SALALM Conferences, Athens,1995; Nashville, 1999
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City, 1993
Georgia Humanities Council Conferences, 1991, 92
University of Houston, Quincentenary Conference, 1992
Charleston Museum, 1992; South Carolina Humanities Council, 1992
Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración, y Museología, La Havana, Cuba, 1991
National Park Service Conference, San Antonio, 1991
Spelman College, Atlanta, 1991
University of Florida, NEH Summer Teachers Institute on Religion, 1989
University of Mississippi, African American Archaeology Conference,1989
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1989
Florida Historical Society, 1983, 87, 1992, 95, 99
University of Florida, NEH Summer Teachers Institute on the History of Religion in America, 1989
Florida Humanities Council, Speakers Bureau Lectures, 1988-89
Louisiana Historical Society, Baton Rouge, 1989
Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericano, Seville, 1989
UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, and DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Executive Council, Center for Latin American & Iberian Studies, 2007-
A&S, Faculty Council, 2006-
A&S, Program in Career Advancement & Professional Advancement, Board of Advisors, 2006-08
Vanderbilt Community Giving Campaign, Allocations Committee, 2006
American Studies Program, Commons Committee, 2006
Provost’s Committee on Honor Scholarships, 2005-06
Provost's Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty, 2000-
Search Committee, Director, Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center, 2002
Fulbright Committee, 1998-99, 99-2000, 2000-02
Truman Scholarship Committee, 1998-99, 99-2000, 2000-02
Committee for African American Studies, 1999-2002
Center for Latin American & Iberian Studies, Executive Committee, 1995-97, 1999-2001
Overseas Study Committee, 1999-2000, 2000-01
Evaluations Committee, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1999-2002
Freshmen Advising and Summer Academic Orientation Program, 1996-1999
Faculty Senate, 1999
Honor Council Board of Advisors, 1994-1997
Library Search Committee, History Bibliographer Position, 1994
History Department, Tenure Committee, 2000-01; External Review Team, 1999 ; Senior United States History Search, 1998-99, 2000-01; Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1993-94, 1994-95, 2000-01; Lecture Series Committee, 1997-98, 98-99, 99-2000, 2000-01; Library Committee, 1992-94, 1996-97: Swint Prize Committee, 1992-93, 2006
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
American Historical Association
Conference on Latin American History
Latin American Studies Association
Association of Caribbean Historian
Brazilian Studies Association
Southern Historical Association
COURSES TAUGHT
Rise of the Iberian Atlantic Empires
Decline of the Iberian Atlantic Empires
Colonial Mexico
Subsaharan Africa, 1400-1800
Latin American Studies Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Graduate Seminars: Gender & Women's History in Colonial Latin America; Comparative Slavery; Atlantic World History
Undergraduate Seminars: Africans in the Americas; African Resistance & Adaptation; Comparative Slavery; Freshman Writing Seminar, Destruction of the Indies
LANGUAGES
Spanish paleography
Modern Spanish: Reading, Writing, Speaking - fluent
Portuguese, Reading, Writing, Speaking - good
French and Italian: Reading knowledge
Revised, 7/25/07
