Today I’m pausing the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner” series featuring Rutgers University graduate students. Instead, I am happy to present R. Grant Kleiser, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University in New York City. Grant specializes in the early-modern Atlantic world, especially political economy and commerce in the Spanish, French, and British empires. He is working on a dissertation that studies the development of so-called “free ports” in the eighteenth-century Caribbean, places where foreign merchants could enter and conduct business
Are you enjoying Research Corner? Well, my pile of drafts is diminishing. I would love to have some more contributions lined up to edit for publication in the summer or fall. I’m seeking discussions of archives, libraries, or digital repositories, or musings about how to do research in general. (Past discussions have included how to write a second book and how to do transnational research. A new area we could explore would be how to successfully apply for grants). I accept drafts from scholars at any stage of your career or, for that matter, from archivists or librarians
I am pleased to continue the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog” series with Part II of the posts on the Archivo General de Puerto Rico. If you have not read Part I, click here. I am also looking for more graduate students who have recently used archival materials, whether in person or online. This is a great way to provide advice for future patrons and to get an early publication on your CV. With that said, I welcome entries from scholars at all stages of their careers (or archivists/librarians) who would like to contribute to the greater good. Please email me at gk
Today I am pleased to present the next entry from the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog” series. Are you a graduate student (or an advisor of one) who has recently used archival materials, whether in person or online? This is a great way to provide advice for future patrons and to get an early publication on your CV. With that said, we welcome entries from scholars at all stages of their careers (or archivists/librarians) who would like to contribute to the greater good. Please email me at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form to express your interest in
I am pleased to continue the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog” series. In the first post, Tatiana Seijas and Gretchen Pierce described how they created an assignment using the blog to introduce graduate students at Rutgers to the process of archival research. Today’s post is the second of around twelve entries written by Seijas’s students. Later in the year, the series will continue with a pedagogical post about how to use Research Corner with undergraduates, and another by one of those students. If you would like to contribute to the pedagogical series, write a
Today I am pleased to continue the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog” series. In the first post, Tatiana Seijas and Gretchen Pierce described how they created an assignment using the blog to introduce graduate students at Rutgers to the process of archival research. Today’s post will be the first of around ten entries written by Seijas’s students. Later in the year, the series will continue with a pedagogical post about how to use Research Corner with undergraduates, and another by one of those students. If you would like to contribute to the pedagogical series
Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arizona Press, 2014) with Áurea Toxqui, and has published a number of articles, book chapters, and academic blog posts on alcohol in Mexico. In addition to serving as an editor on H-LatAm and founding this blog, she is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Altered States: Mexico’s Anti-Alcohol, State-Building, and Identity-Formation Projects, 1910-1940.”
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What can a sports stadium teach us about archives?
Diana Garvin (University of Oregon)
Rome was legendarily founded in 753 B.C. Since then, Italy has been a republic, an empire, a kingdom, and a fractured mosaic of city states. What it has rarely been is a nation-state, and yet that is precisely the overarching organizing principle of the modern Italian archival system.
It remains a curious hybrid. Local state archives crystallize early modern Italy’s political order in part of their structure – the archives of Mantua, Venice, and Florence, for instance, serve as repositories of long
Today I am pleased to publish another post that might help U.S. Americans who are unable to leave the country but are looking to maintain an active research agenda. Can you help contribute to this discussion on Research Corner? Or do you have other ideas about research in or on Latin America that you would like to publish? I am nearing the end of my pile of edited drafts and hope to receive more in December or January to get me set up for the spring. If you’re interested, please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form.
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El día de hoy terminamos una serie sobre recursos artísticos en México. El primer post está aquí. Si le gustaría contribuir a este blog también, favor de llenar este Google Form. Posts pueden estar en español, portugués o inglés.
Marco Polo Juárez Cruz estudia un doctorado en Historia del Arte en la Universidad de Maryland. Su investigación se centra en el arte moderno en Latinoamérica, especializándose en la emergencia del arte abstracto en la región y su relación con identidades locales, grupos artísticos y museos, políticas culturales y la Guerra Fría. Marco Polo ha colaborado