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Director of International Studies, College Of Humanities
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Associate Professor, History
Professional Service
- History of Science Society.
Chair. “Mastering Natural Knowledge in the Portuguese Empire: Transforming Bodies, Exploring Nature, Governing Space.” Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2019 - 2019
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Entity: University of Utah, International Studies Program. Convener. “Health, Medicine, and the Environment.” A lecture series organized on behalf of the International Studies program of the University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT.
2019 - 2019
- History of Science Society.
Committee on Meetings and Programs. Committee Member. History of Science Society.
2018 - present
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Entity: American Historical Association. Chair. Roundtable titled “It’s Not about That: Revisiting Thematic Fields in the History of Science.” 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Atlanta, GA.
2016 - 2016
- Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
Chair. “Colonial Hybrids II: Indigenous Beliefs and Early Modern Medicine.” For the 46th Annual Conference. The Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD.
2015 - 2015
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Entity: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Panel Organizer for the History of Science Section. Panel: Anatomies of Empire: Science and the Body in the Iberian Atlantic.
2014 - 2015
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Entity: Rutgers University. Conference Organizer. For a conference on "The Individual in Global History," held in honor of the life and scholarship of Michael Adas.
2014 - 2015
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Entity: African Studies Association of the UK Panel Organizer for the Lusophone Africa Stream. Panel: Decolonizing the Body? Medicine and Health in Lusophone Africa, 1480-1900.
2013 - 2014
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Entity: Scholarly journals I review essays for a number of scholarly journals both in the US and abroad. Currently these include History of Science, Social History of Medicine, Journal of Social History, Asiatische Studien / Etudes Asiatiques; Manguinhos: História, Ciência, Saúde.
2012 - 2018
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Entity: Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Guest Editor with Iona McCleery. “Science, Medicine, and Health in Portugal and Its Early Empire, 1350-1550.” Special issue of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.
2011 - 2015
Internal Service
- College of Humanities Curriculum Committee.
Committee Member,
2020 - 2021.
service.
- TFR Ad Hoc Committee for Smoak. Department of History.
Committee Member,
2019 - 2020.
service.
- Executive Committee. Department of History.
Committee Member,
2019 - 2020.
service.
- Graduate Committee. Department of History.
Committee Member,
2019 - 2020.
service.
- Executive Committee. College of Humanities.
Committee Member,
2019 - 2020.
service.
- Curriculum Committee. College of Humanities.
Committee Member,
2019 - 2020.
service.
- Undergraduate Committee. College of Humanities.
Committee Member,
2019 - 2020.
service.
- International Studies.
Director,
2017 - present.
service.
- O. Meredith Wilson Lecture Committee.
2014 - 2015.
service.
Honors & Awards
- 2019 Leo Gershoy Award for the best book in early modern European history.
American Historical Association,
2019
- “Rising Star in the Humanities” award from the College of Humanities.
University of Utah,
2018
- University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship.
2015
- Brazilian Studies Research Grant.
2014
- University Research Council Faculty Fellow Award.
2013
- Great Ideas in the Humanities Grant.
2013
- Harvard University International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World.
2012
- National Endowment for the Humanities.
2012
- University of Texas-Austin and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship.
2011
- Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship.
2010
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