Fields
World History
Early Modern Iberian and British Worlds
Early Caribbean
Commodities and Consumption
Atlantic History
Environmental History
Education & Training
- PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 2009
Representative Publications
American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
“A Political Ecology in the Early Spanish Caribbean.” William & Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., Volume 71 (4), October 2014: 517-548.
“Enslaved Pearl Divers in the Sixteenth Century Caribbean.” Slavery & Abolition, Volume 31 (3), September 2010: 345-362. Reprinted in Philip D. Morgan, ed. Maritime Slavery. London: Routledge, 2012.