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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.
07/2019 - 07/2019
- 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.
02/2019 - 04/2019
- History of Science Society.
Committee on Meetings and Programs. Committee Member. History of Science Society.
09/2018 - present
- 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.
01/2016 - 01/2016
- 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.
03/2015 - 03/2015
- 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.
09/2014 - 03/2015
- Rutgers University.
Conference Organizer. For a conference on "The Individual in Global History," held in honor of the life and scholarship of Michael Adas.
05/2014 - 05/2015
- 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 .
09/2013 - 09/2014
- 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, and the British Journal for the History of Science.
08/2012 - 08/2023
- 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.
10/2011 - 06/2015
Internal Service
- Intellectual Life Committee.
Committee Member,
08/2022 - 05/2023.
Department service.
- College of Humanities Curriculum Committee.
Committee Member,
08/2022 - 05/2023.
College service.
- Search Committee for a Director of the Asia Center.
Committee Member,
08/2022 - 05/2023.
College service.
- RPT ad hoc Committee (Tenure) for Dr. ShawnaKim Blake Lowey-Ball.
Committee Member,
03/2022 - 10/2022.
Department service.
- College of Humanities Curriculum Committee.
Committee Member,
08/2020 - 05/2021.
College service.
- Executive Committee. College of Humanities.
Committee Member,
08/2019 - 06/2020.
College service.
- Graduate Committee. Department of History.
Committee Member,
08/2019 - 06/2020.
Department service.
- Executive Committee. Department of History.
Committee Member,
08/2019 - 06/2020.
Department service.
- Curriculum Committee. College of Humanities.
Committee Member,
08/2019 - 06/2020.
College service.
- Undergraduate Committee. College of Humanities.
Committee Member,
08/2019 - 06/2020.
College service.
- TFR Ad Hoc Committee for Smoak. Department of History.
Committee Member,
08/2019 - 05/2020.
Department service.
- International Studies.
Director,
07/2017 - present.
College service.
- O. Meredith Wilson Lecture Committee.
08/2014 - 05/2015.
Department service.
Outreach
- "Into the Tropics: Science, Medicine, and the Origins of the Global Drugs Trade." An invited presentation provided to Salt Lake Oasis, a local organization committed to secular, non-ideological community building.
02/11/2018 - 02/11/2018
- "Futures in History." A film production on the contemporary value of a history degree (major, minor, teaching major, and teaching minor) for University of Utah undergraduates.
05/2016 - 09/2016
Honors & Awards
- 2019 Leo Gershoy Award for the best book in early modern European history.
American Historical Association,
11/2019
- “Rising Star in the Humanities” award from the College of Humanities.
University of Utah,
09/2018
- University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship.
09/2015
- Brazilian Studies Research Grant.
09/2014
- “Best Collaborative Project” award for Women of the Iberian Atlantic (contributing author).
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women ,
11/2013
- University Research Council Faculty Fellow Award.
09/2013
- Great Ideas in the Humanities Grant.
09/2013
- Harvard University International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World.
06/2012
- National Endowment for the Humanities.
04/2012
- University of Texas-Austin and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship.
06/2011
- Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship.
09/2010
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