Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the author of more than 60 journal articles and book chapters, as well as of several books: "How to Write the History of the New World" (2001) which is translated into Spanish and Portuguese; "Puritan Conquistadors (2006), which translated into Spanish; "Nature, Empire, and Nation" (2007); "The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000" (co-edited, with Erik Seeman), and "The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade" (co-edited with Jim Sidbury and Matt Childs). His forthcoming edited collection "Entangled Empires and Severed Archives: Anglo-Iberian Atlantic Worlds 1500-1830" will be published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dr. Cañizares-Esguerra have received numerous prizes, including the 1999-2001 best article award from the Forum in the History of the Human Sciences of the History of Science Society; the 2001 AHA prize in Atlantic History; the 2001 AHA prize in Latin American and Spanish History; and the 2006-2007 biannual Honorable Mention of the Murdo MacLeod Book Prize of The Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association.
Ph.D.
in History of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1995
M.A.
in History of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1990
M.D.
, Universidad Central del Ecuador (Quito-Ecuador), 1985
Early Modern Atlantic History; History of Science and Colonialism; History of Knowledge; Colonial Spanish and British America.
Member,
Editorial Board, History of Science (2015 - Present)
Member,
External Reviewer Membership School of History, Institute of Advanced Studies (2015)
Member,
Editorial Board, Humanidades (Revista de la Universidad de Montevideo) (2013 - Present)
Member,
Fellowship Selection Committee, American Council of Learned Societies (2012 - 2014)
Member,
Editorial Board, Terra Brasilis (2011 - Present)
Member,
Editorial Board, Memoria y Sociedad (2009 - Present)
Chair,
John Fagg Prize, American Historical Association (2009)
Member,
Nominations Committee, IUHPS (International Union of History and Philosophy of Science) (2009 - Present)
Member,
Fellowship Selection Committee, John Carter Brown Library (2009)
Member,
Editorial Board, Journal of Early Modern History (2008 - Present)
Member,
Editorial Board, Hispanic American Historical Review (2008 - 2014)
Member,
John Fagg Prize on Latin American and Spanish History, American Historical Association (2008 - 2010)
Member,
Editorial Board, Atlantic Studies (2007 - Present)
Member,
Editorial Board, Eighteenth-Century Thought (2005 - Present)
Member,
Editorial Board, CR: The New Centennial Review (2001 - 2004)
Deans Fellowship
- College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin (2015)
Fellow
- Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame (2014 - 2015)
Honorable Mention
- Biannual Murdo MacLeod Book Prize of The Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association (2007)
Andrew Mellon Research Fellow
- Huntington Library (2003 - 2004)
Young Investigator Award
- Exceptional Scholar Program. SUNY-Buffalo (2002)
John Edwin Fagg Book Prize (on Spanish and Latin American History) for How to Write the History of the New World
- American Historical Association (2001)
Atlantic History Book Prize for How to Write the History of the New World
- American Historical Association (2001)
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Fellow
- Harvard University (2001 - 2002)
University Outstanding Research Initiative Award
- Illinois State University (1998)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
- John Carter Brown Library (1997 - 1998)
