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William D. Phillips, Jr.

Curriculum Vitae, August 2019

WILLIAM D. PHILLIPS, JR.

Professor Emeritus of HistoryUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN 55455

Residence: 1501 Cascade Trail, San Marcos, TX 78676U.S. mail address: P.O. Box 2965, Wimberley, TX 78666

e-mail: phill004@ umn.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, New York University, 1971. History, medieval and early modern Europe.MA, University of Tennessee, 1966. History.BA, University of Mississippi, 1964. History.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, 2013---Professor, University of Minnesota, 1988-2013.Professor, San Diego State University, 1978-88.Associate Professor, San Diego State University, 1975-78.Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, 1970-75.Instructor, Rhode Island College, 1969-70.Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professor of History, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, fall

semester 2014.Adjunct professor of history, University of Texas, Austin, 2008-11.Visiting professor of history, California State University, Fullerton, 2005-06.Visiting professor of history, University of Minnesota, 1985-86.Visiting professor of history, Macalester College, fall 1985.Visiting assistant professor of humanities, University of Minnesota, 1972-73.

OTHER SCHOLARLY APPOINTMENTS

Director, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, 2001-08, Spring 2011.

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Section editor, Recently Published Articles (American Historical Association), for "Spain and Portugal," 1987-90.

Section reviewer, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte -- Literaturbericht (Tübingen), for "Exploration, Colonization, and Missionary Activities," 1985-94.

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

Corresponding member, Real Academia de la Historia (Spanish Royal Academy of History), Madrid, 2005---.

Invited Research Scholar, Institute for Historical Research, University of Texas, Austin, 2008-09, 2013---.

Chair of “Discoveries of the Americas” group, Global Middle Ages Project (GMAP), 2009-10.

Advisory board member, the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages (SCGMA), 2010-13.

Board of Directors, International Committee for the History of Nautical Science, for 2009-2012.

Member, Founding Editorial Board, Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford University Press), 2009-2010.

Board of Directors, Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2007-2011.Invited Research Scholar, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, fall 2003.

"Leo Gershoy Award" of the American Historical Association for Spain's Golden Fleece, prize for 1998, announced in 1999.

General Secretary (President), Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1994-96.

"Spain in America Prize," second prize for The Worlds of Christopher Columbus, 1993.National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowship, 1988-89.University of Minnesota, Graduate School Grants-in-aid of research, 1988, 1989, 1991,

1993, 1995; Bush Sabbatical Grant, 1992-1993; Graduate School Faculty Research Fellowship and McKnight Summer Fellowship, 1994, 1998, 2003; Single Quarter Leave, fall 1998 (declined); Sabbatical with supplement, 2000-2001; Scholar of the College (College of Liberal Arts), 2002-2005; Grant for Technology Enhanced Instructional Improvement, 2002; Single Semester Leave, fall 2008 (declined); Sabbatical with supplement, 2008-09.

American Philosophical Society, grant in aid of research, summer 1980.New York University, Founders' Day Award, 1972.New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 1968-

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San Diego State University, Sabbaticals, 1977-78, 1984-85; College of Arts and Letters Faculty Summer Stipend, 1981; Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, 1987.

San Diego State University Foundation, grants for summer research, various years.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

A Concise History of Spain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Hard cover and paperback. (with Carla Rahn Phillips). Second edition 2016. Translations into Portuguese and Turkish appeared. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in process.

Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Religious Conflict and Accommodation in the Early Modern World, ed. William D. Phillips, Jr., and Marguerite Ragnow. Minneapolis: Center for Early Modern History, 2011.

Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age: Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, ed. Calvin B. Kendall, Oliver Nicholson, William D. Phillips, Jr., and Marguerite Ragnow. Minneapolis: Center for Early Modern History, 2009.

Testimonies from the Columbus Lawsuits, ed. William D. Phillips, Jr.; trans. William D. Phillips, Jr., and Anne-Marie Wolf; historical introduction by William D. Phillips, Jr.; philological introduction by Mark D. Johnston. Vol. VIII of the Repertorium Columbianum. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000. Pp. xvi + 506.

Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 441. (with Carla Rahn Phillips). "Leo Gershoy Award" of the American Historical Association for 1998 (best book in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history). Listed in Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles, 1998-2002. Spanish translation: El toisón de oro español: Produccion y comercio de lana en las épocas medieval y moderna. Trans. Eva García Ortiz. Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 2005.

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The Worlds of Christopher Columbus. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 322. (with Carla Rahn Phillips). Paperback reprint, 1993. "Spain in America Prize," second place, 1993. Cited by the New York Times Book Review as a notable book of 1992.

Historia de la esclavitud en España. Trans. Leopoldo Fornés Bonavía. Madrid: Editorial Playor, 1990. Pp. 279.

Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 289 (British edition: Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1985); Spanish translation: La esclavitud desde la época romana hasta los inicios del comercio transatlántico. Trans. Elena Pérez Ruiz de Velasco. Madrid: Siglo XXI de España, 1989. Pp. xi + 367.

Marginated Groups in Spanish and Portuguese History, ed. William D. Phillips, Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips. Minneapolis: Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1989. Pp. iv + 240.

Enrique IV and the Crisis of Fifteenth-Century Castile, 1425-1480. Speculum Anniversary Monographs, 3. Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy of America, 1978. Pp. x + 137.

STUDY GUIDES AND COURSE TEXTS

Columbus and the Age of Encounter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Continuing Education and Extension, 1994. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

Before 1492: Christopher Columbus's Formative Years. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1992.

Christopher Columbus and the New World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Extension, 1985. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

ARTICLES AND OTHER SHORT PUBLICATIONS

“Iberia’s Old World Slaving Zones in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods,” in Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, edited by Jeff Fynn-Paul and Damian Alan Pargas (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 94-117.

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“Encounters within Europe: Travelers’ Views of Slavery in Renaissance Iberia,” in Encounters Old and New in World History: Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley, edited by Alan Karras and Laura J. Mitchell (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017), 55-66.

“The Origins of Global Cartography: The Waldseemüller Globe Gores and other Maps in the James Ford Bell Library,” in Arte de Navegar – Nautical Science, 1400-1800,edited by António Costa Canas, Francisco Contente Domingues, João Felipe Queiró, João Manuel Fernandes, João Marninho dos Santos, Jorge Semedo de Matos (Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra, 2014), 87-95. (With Marguerite Ragnow)

“Old World Precedents: Sugar and Slavery in the Mediterranean,” in The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples, edited by Stephan Palmié and Francisco A. Scarano (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 69-79.

“Slavery in the Atlantic Islands and the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic World,” in The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 3: AD 1420—AD 1804, edited by David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 325-47.

“La historia de la esclavitud y la historia medieval de la Península Ibérica,” Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie III: Historia Medieval 23 (2010): 149-65. (appeared in 2011)

“Christopher Columbus,” Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford University Press, 2010). Online publication: http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/~. Revision 2012.

“The Columbian Quincentenary and Its Scholarly Legacy.” ASPHS Bulletin, 34,2 (2009): 10-20.

“Manumission in Metropolitan Spain and the Canaries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.” In Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World, ed. Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009), 31-50.

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“The Frustrated Unity of Atlantic Europe: The Roles of Spain and England.” In Material and Symbolic Circulation between Spain and England, 1554-1604, ed. Anne J. Cruz (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 3-12.

“Isabel of Castile’s Portuguese Connections and the Opening of the Atlantic.” In Queen Isabel I of Castile: Power, Patronage, Persona, ed. Barbara F. Weissberger (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008), 19-28.

“Portuguese and Spaniards in the Age of European Expansion.” In A Companion to Latin American History, ed. Thomas H. Holloway (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), 58-72. (With Carla Rahn Phillips)

“Transatlantic Encounters: Eyewitness Testimony and Spain’s First American Possessions,” Medieval Encounters, 13/1 (2007): 145-57.

“Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia.” In Between the Middle Ages and Modernity: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World, ed. Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 93-104.

“The Use of the Pleitos in United States Historiography from Washington Irving to the Present.” In Cristóbal Colón, 1506-2006: Historia y Leyenda, ed. Consuelo Varela (Palos de la Frontera: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía et al., 2006), 375-82.

“Christopher Columbus in United States Historiography: Biography as Projection.” In Cristóbal Colón, 1506-2006: Historia y Leyenda, ed. Consuelo Varela (Palos de la Frontera: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía et al., 2006), 357-74. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"Plus Ultra: Colón y los andaluces en el Descubrimiento." In Entre el Nuevo y el viejo Mundo (Historia de Andalucía, vol. VI), ed. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla. Sevilla: Fundación José Manuel Lara, and Barcelona: Planeta, 2006), 202-227.

“Sugar in Iberia.” In Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680, ed. Stuart B. Schwartz (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 27-41.

“Maritime Exploration in the Middle Ages.” In Maritime History as World History, ed. Daniel Finamore (Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum and Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004), 47-61

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“Images of Spanish History in the United States.” Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 27, 2-3 (Summer-Winter 2002): 40-51.

"Slavery in Spain, Ancient to Early Modern: A Survey of the Historiography of since 1990." Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 26,3 (Winter-Spring 2001-2002): 10-18. (Review article)

"La otra cara de la moneda: La imagen de España en los Estados Unidos." In El hispanismo norteamericano: Aportaciones, problemas, y perspectivas sobre Historia, Arte, y Literatura españolas (siglos XVI-XVIII), ed. José Manuel Bernardo Ares (Córdoba, Spain: Publicaciones Obra Social y Cultural Cajasur, 2001), pp. 161-76.

"The Testimony of Empire: The Columbian Lawsuits." Terrae Incognitae, 23 (2000): 23-30.

"Merchants of the Fleece: Castilians in Bruges and the Wool Trade." In International Trade in the Low Countries (14th-16th Centuries), ed. Peter Stabel, Bruno Blondé, Anke Greve (Leuven-Apeldoorn: Garant, 2000), 75-87.

"Peste Negra: The Fourteenth-Century Plague Epidemics in Iberia." In On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions, ed. Donald J. Kagay and Theresa M. Vann (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 47-62.

"Voluntary Strangers: European Merchants and Missionaries in Asia during the Late Middle Ages." In The Stranger in Medieval Society, ed. F. R. P. Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 14-26.

"Recent Works on the Exploration and Settlement of Latin America." Latin American Research Review, 32,1 (1997): 265-71. (review article)

"Slavery in Space and Time: Continuities." In Slaves with or without Sugar, ed. Alberto Vieira (Funchal: Atlantic History Study Centre, 1996), 127-42.

"Escravatura no espaço e no tempo: continuidades," in Vieira, ed., Escravos com e sem açúcar, Funchal, Madeira : Região Autónoma da Madeira, Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico, Secretaria Regional do Turismo e Cultura, 1996, pp. 121-37. (translation of above entry)

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"Spain and the Wider World in the Later Middle Ages." In Iberia and the Mediterranean World in the Middle Ages, vol. 2, ed. P. E. Chevedden et al. (Leiden: Brill, 1996), 403-417.

"The Medieval Origins of European Expansion." (The James Ford Bell Lectures, no. 33) (Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1996).

"Continuity and Change in Western Slavery: Ancient to Modern Times," in Slavery and Serfdom: Studies in Legal Bondage, ed. M. L. Bush (London: Longman, 1996), pp. 71-88.

"Columbus and the European Background: The First Voyage," and "The Later Voyages of Columbus," in Maritime History, vol. 1: The Age of Discovery, ed. John Hattendorf (Malabar: Krieger Publishing, 1996), pp. 149-214. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"Christopher Columbus: Two Films," in Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, ed. Mark C. Carnes et al. (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), pp. 60-65. (with Carla Rahn Phillips).

"Back to the Sources for Christopher Columbus," in Discovery in the Archives of Spain and Portugal: Quincentenary Essays, 1492-1992, ed. Lawrence J. McCrank (New York: Haworth Press, 1993), pp. 137-50. (with Carla Rahn Phillips). Also published simultaneously in Primary Sources and Original Works, 2/1-2 (1993): 137-50.

"Columbus and European Views of the World," The American Neptune, 53.4 (Fall 1993): 260-67.

"Quincentennial Reflections," Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 28,1 (Winter 1993): 7-13. (review article)

"Africa and the Atlantic Islands meet the Garden of Eden: Christopher Columbus's Views of America," Journal of World History, 3/2 (1992): 149-64.

"The Impact of 1992 on Christopher Columbus," Mariner's Mirror, 78/4 (1992): 469-83. (with Carla Rahn Phillips) (review article)

"Christopher Columbus in Portugal: The Years of Preparation," Terrae Incognitae, 24 (1992): 31-41.

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"Christopher Columbus and Portugal," Camões Center Quarterly, 4/1&2 (Spring and Summer 1992): 2-7. (An abbreviated version of the previous item.)

"Christopher Columbus and United States Historiography: Biography as Projection," The History Teacher, 25/2 (1992): 119-35. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"Voyage of Destiny," American History Illustrated, 27/4 (September-October 1992): 28-43, 66-70. (An excerpt from The Worlds of Christopher Columbus, with Carla Rahn Phillips).

"Spain in the Fifteenth Century," introductory article in Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century, ed. Kenneth J. Andrien and Rolena Adorno (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991). (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"The Old World Background of Slavery in the Americas," in Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic Economy, ed. Barbara L. Solow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 43-61.

"The Textbook Columbus: Examining the Myth," Humanities, 12/5 (Sept.-Oct.1991), 27-30. (with Carla Rahn Phillips).

"Testaments in the Spanish World in the Early Modern Period: Sources for Social History," in Historia del Derecho Privado: Trabajos en Homenaje a Ferran Valls i Tabaner, vol. 10, ed. Manuel J. Peláez (Barcelona: Promociones Publicaciones Universitarias, 1989), pp. 2965-80.

"Spain's Northern Shipping Industry in the Sixteenth Century," Journal of European Economic History, 17/2 (Fall 1988): 267-301.

"University Graduates in Castilian Royal Service in the Fifteenth Century," in Estudios en homenaje a Don Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz en sus 90 años (Buenos Aires: Universidad, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1986), vol. 4, pp. 475-90.

"Local Integration and Long-Distance Ties: The Castilian Community in Sixteenth-Century Bruges," Sixteenth Century Journal, 17,1 (Spring 1986): 33-49.

"Sugar Production and Trade in the Mediterranean at the Time of the Crusades," The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange between East and West during the Period of the Crusades, edited by Vladimir P. Goss and Christine V. Bornstein

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(Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1986), pp. 393-406.

"State Service in Fifteenth-Century Castile: A Statistical Study of Royal Appointees," Societas--A Review of Social History, 8/2 (Spring 1978): 115-36.

"The Castilian Fairs in Burgos, 1601-1604," The Journal of European Economic History, (Fall 1977): 413-29. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"Spanish Wool and Dutch Rebels: The Middelburg Incident of 1574," American Historical Review, 82/2 (April 1977): 312-30. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"The Development of Spanish Military Aviation," Aerospace Historian, 22/1 (1975): 41-45.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES AND OTHER VERY SHORT PUBLICATIONS

“Columbus, Bartolomé,” in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration, ed. David Buisseret et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 1:199.

“Columbus, Christopher,” in ibid., 1:199-204.

“Pinzón, Martín Alonso, and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, in ibid., 2:156.

“Afrikanische Sklaven auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in der Frühen Neuzeit,” in Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa, Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Klaus J. Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh and Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), 364-66.

“Columbus, Christopher,” in Europe, 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern

World, ed. Jonathan Dewald et al. (New York: Scribner’s/Gale Group, 2004), 2:5-7.

"Columbus," in the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), 2:44-49.

"Slavery," in ibid., 6:38-42.

"Spain: The Spanish Kingdoms," in ibid., 6:52-63.

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"Asiento," in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery, ed. Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller (New York: Macmillan, 1998), 97.

"Columbus, Christopher," in ibid., 206.

"Mediterranean Basin," in ibid., 576-78.

"Siete Partidas (The Seven Divisions)," in ibid., 800-801.

"Slave Trade: Medieval Europe," in ibid., 832.

"Spain: Slavery in Spain," in ibid., 870-72.

"Europe: Middle Ages," in A Historical Guide to World Slavery, ed. Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman (New York Oxford University Press, 1998), 197-200.

"Mediterranean," in ibid., 271-74.

"Christopher Columbus," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, ed. Barbara Tenenbaum (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1996), 2:222-225.

"Córdoba," in The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 1:209.

"Europe and the Wider World in 1492," in ibid., 1:249-57.

Short entries in World Book Encyclopedia. "Line of Demarcation" and "Spanish Armada" in 1994; "Alva, Duke of," "Ferdinand V," and "Suárez, Francisco," 1995. (All World Book entries with Carla Rahn Phillips.)

Entries in the section “Columbian Exchanges and Encounters, 1400-1600,” in the American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature, 2 vols., 3d. ed., ed. Mary Beth Norton (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 1:53-55. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

REVIEWS

Aerospace Historian (1)American Neptune (1)American Historical Review (10)

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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte—Literaturbericht (32 short reviews)Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (5)Choice (15 short reviews)Hispanic American Historical Review (8)History of Education Quarterly (1)History Teacher (3)Isis (1)Itinerario (2)Journal of American History (1)Journal of European Economic History (1)Journal of Modern History (1)Journal of San Diego History (1)Journal of Social History (1)Journal of World History (1)The Medieval Review (1)Military Affairs (1)Modern Greek Studies (3)Newsletter of the Academy of American Research Historians of Medieval Spain (1)Renaissance Quarterly (1)Sixteenth Century Journal (6)Speculum (5)University of Toronto Quarterly (1)

(Reviews are listed at the end of the vita.)

WORK IN PROGRESS

BookSlavery in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association (Premio del Rey Committee, 1998-2002, chair 2000-2001)

Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, now the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Nominating Committee, 1978-80; Program Co-chair for 1982 meeting; Executive Committee, 1982-84, 1992-94; Planning Committee for Madrid meeting, 1983-84; Membership Secretary, 1984-89; Program Chair for 1994 meeting; General Secretary [President], 1994-1996; Local Arrangements Chair

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for 1997 meeting, Bishko Prize Committee chair, 2008-10.

Academy of American Research Historians on Medieval Spain, 1982-2002, 2005---.

Medieval Academy of America (Life Member)

Sixteenth Century Studies Association (Co-coordinator of sessions on Spain and Spanish America for the 2002 meeting in San Antonio)

Conference on Latin American History (Member, Columbus Quincentennial Committee, 1988-90)

Forum on European Expansion and Global Interactions (founding member, 1994; local arrangements chair, inaugural meeting, 1996).

EDITORIAL AND SCHOLARLY REFEREE

American Historical ReviewSpeculumJournal of Urban HistoryTerrae IncognitaeRenaissance QuarterlyTiempos ModernosThe AmericasComparative Studies in History and SocietyBulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical StudiesThe Medieval GlobeSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaNational Endowment for the HumanitiesNational Humanities CenterAmerican Philological Society Bedford St. Martins Alfred A. Knopf Harper & RowCambridge University PressCapstone PublicationsMedieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Oxford University Press University of Illinois PressUniversity of Michigan Press

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University of Minnesota PressUniversity of Pennsylvania PressPeter Lang PublishingUniversity Press of AmericaUniversity Press of FloridaUniversity of Utah PressWestview PressOutside evaluator for personnel decisions, Indiana University, State University of New York -- College at Fredonia, Pomona College (twice), Boston University, University of Nebraska, City University of New York; UCLA; Seattle University; UC Santa Barbara; Tufts University; University of Guelph

CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND INVITED LECTURES

Participant in a plenary session, “ASPHS Tribute to Helen Nader (1936-2018),” at the annual meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Universtat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, July 11, 2019.

Organizer with Carla Rahn Phillips,”ASPHS @ 50: A Video Commemoration,” at the annual meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, July 12, 2019.

“Early Descriptions of the Gulf Stream,” in the conference: “Atlantic Navigation,” XVIII International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science, Universidade dos Açores, Campus de Ponta Delgada, November 13, 2018.

“Iberia’s Old World Slaving Zones in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods,” Keynote 2 in the conference “Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery,” University of Leiden, The Netherlands, June 1, 2015.

“Spain and the World: 3,000 Years of History,” a lecture in the Center for Global Humanities, University of New England, Portland, ME, February 23, 2015. (with Carla Rahn Phillips) (A video of the lecture is available on the CGH’s website.)

“In Search of the Spanish Past: Ships, Sailors, and Slaves,” Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professor of History Lecture, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, October 14, 2014. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

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“Encounters within Europe: The Ethnographic Observations of Foreign Travelers in Iberia in the 15th and 16th Centuries,” in the conference “Encounters, Old and New, in World History: A Celebration of Jerry Bentley,” University of California, Berkeley, March 2, 2014. A preliminary version also presented at “A Global History Panel: Two Papers Prepared for a Commemorative Volume in Honor of Jerry Bentley,” University of California, San Diego, February 27, 2014.

Honoree: Plenary Session: “Panel in Honor of William D. and Carla R. Phillips,” at the annual meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Albuquerque, April 5, 2013.

Honoree: Two Sessions “In Honor of William D. Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips: I: Spain and the Sea, and II: Contributions to Comparative Work,” at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 14, 2010.

Participant in Roundtable Discussion: “The Fortieth Anniversary of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,” at the annual meeting of the society, Kansas City, MO, April 4, 2009.

“The Origins of Global Cartography: the Waldseemüller World Map and Other Sources in the James Ford Bell Library,” at the14th International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science, Coimbra, Portugal, October 25, 2008.

“Isabel of Castile, 1474-1504: Spain and the Spanish Empire,” at the Teaching of History Conference, University of North Texas, September 20, 2008.

“La historia de la esclavitud y la historia medieval de la Península Ibérica,” inaugural address in the international symposium “Minas y esclavos en la Península Ibérica y el Maghreb en la edad media,” Calatayud, Spain, June 18, 2008.

“Slavery in Europe in the Sixteenth Century: An Overview,” at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,” Minneapolis, October 28, 2007.

“European Knowledge of the World in the Age of Columbus,” Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, February 4, 2005.

“Problems in the History of Premodern Slavery,” a presentation to the History Department, University of Texas, Austin, October 21, 2004.

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“Rediscovering Columbus: A Celebration of the Repertorium Columbianum,” University of California, Los Angeles, October 15, 2004.

“Isabel of Castile and the Opening of the Atlantic,” at the symposium “Questioning the Queen: Isabel I of Castile 500 Years Later,” University of Minnesota, April 30, 2004.

“The Frustrated Unity of Atlantic Europe: The Roles of Spain and England,” at the conference “Crossing the Channel: Cultural, Political, and Historical Connections between Spain and England, 1554-1604,” at the Newberry Library, Chicago, November 13, 2003.

“Iberia Observed: Central European Travelers and their Accounts,” at the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, September 11, 2003.

“European Travelers in Iberia in the Fifteenth Century,” at the Mediterranean Studies Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 31, 2003.

"Defining the Coastline: Eyewitness Testimony and the Mapping of Spain's First American Possessions," at the conference "Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 13, 2003.

"Environment and Epidemiology in Late Medieval Iberia," Mediterranean Studies Conference, Granada, Spain, June 1, 2002.

"Famine and Feast in Fourteenth-Century Iberia," in the session "Human Economy and Natural Environment in the Middle Ages, II: Climatic Change" at the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 4, 2002.

"Manumission in Metropolitan Spain and the Canaries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries," at the conference "Manumission in the Atlantic World," Charleston, SC, October 2000.

"Portugal, Castile, and the Atlantic World in the Eve of Brazil's Discovery," at the VI Colóquio Internacional de História das Ilhas Atlânticas: As Ilhas e o Brasil, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, September 2000.

"The Crises of the Early Fourteenth Century in Iberia," in "Human Economy and Natural Environment in the Middle Ages, Session IV: Humans Confronted with Environmental Change," 35th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2000.

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"Maritime Exploration in the Middle Ages," at the World Marine Millennial Conference, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., March 2000.

"The Testimony of Empire: The Columbian Lawsuits," for the annual convention of the Society for the History of Discoveries, Vancouver, November 1998. Presented in précis in my absence.

"Merchants of the Fleece: Castilians in Bruges and the Wool Trade," International Colloquium "International Trade in the Low Countries (14th-16th Centuries): Merchants, Organisation, and Infrastructure," Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium, December, 1997.

"The Other Side of the Coin: The Image of Spain in the United States," International Conference "Hacia un nuevo humanismo," Córdoba, September 1997.

"Slavery in Space and Time: Continuities," International Conference "Escravos com e sem Açúcar," Funchal, Madeira, June 20, 1996.

"Portugal, Castile, and the Opening of the Atlantic," Columbia University, November, 27, 1995; College of Charleston, January 11, 1996; University of California, Santa Barbara, January 29, 1996; Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, March 6, 1996; The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, March 7, 1996; The Oliveira Lima Library, Catholic University of America, March 11, 1996; The College of William and Mary, March 13, 1996. Lecture tour underwritten by the Vasco da Gama fund provided by the (Portuguese) National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries.

"The Medieval Background of European Expansion," the 1995 James Ford Bell Lecture, University of Minnesota, June 1, 1995.

"Continuity and Change in Western Slavery: Ancient to Modern Times," Slavery and Serfdom Conference, University of Manchester, September 5, 1994.

"European Merchants and Missionaries in Asia During the Late Middle Ages," in the conference "Strangers in Medieval Society," Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, February 25, 1994.

"The Black Death in Iberia: Consequences," annual Bertie Wilkinson Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto, February 3, 1994.

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Distinguished Guest Lecturer, delivered six lectures (jointly with Carla Rahn Phillips) on Christopher Columbus and his times, as part of the "Enrichment Program" aboard the Sun Lines vessel Stella Solaris during a transatlantic voyage, November 28-December 20, 1992.

"Columbus and European Views of the World," evening address to the Nineteenth New England Medieval Conference, October 1992.

"The Impact of 1992 on Christopher Columbus," banquet speech at the first annual conven-tion of the World History Association, Philadelphia, June 1992.

"The Black Death in Spain," annual convention, Medieval Academy of America, Colum-bus, Ohio, March 1992.

"The Medieval Background of Christopher Columbus," Annual conference, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, New York, March 1992.

"The Worlds of Christopher Columbus," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1992. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"Prelude to 1492: Christopher Columbus in Africa and the Atlantic Islands," American Historical Association, Chicago, December 1991.

"Islamic and Medieval European Slavery," American Philological Association, Chicago, December 1991.

"Columbus in Portugal, Years of Obscurity, c. 1474-1485," Society for the History of Discoveries, Savannah, November 1991.

"The Spanish Kingdoms and the Wider World in the Late Middle Ages," at a conference on "Medieval Spain in the Western Mediterranean," held in honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J., at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, October 26, 1991.

"The Rise of Spain." Chicago Spanish Studies Roundtable, sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Consulate-General of Spain in Chicago, May 1991.

"Christopher Columbus in United States Historiography: The Blurred Image." Seventeenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, Madrid, August 27, 1990. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"The Rise of Spain: An Overdue Reinterpretation." Society for Spanish and Portuguese 18


Historical Studies, New Orleans, April 1990.

"Castile and the Rise of Spain." Interdisciplinary Conference on Medieval Spain, Vanderbilt University, October 1989.

"Historical Background of Slavery in the Americas." Conference on "Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic Economy," W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University, September 1988.

"Merchants and Wool Workers in Sixteenth-Century Burgos." Twentieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1985. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

"Testaments in the Spanish World in the Sixteenth Century." American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1983.

"Education and Bureaucratic Growth in Fifteenth-Century Castile." Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, San Diego, 1983.

"Early Modern Spanish Wills: Sources for Social History." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Boston, April 1983.

"Local Integration and Long-Distance Ties: The Castilian Merchant Community in Bruges in the Sixteenth Century." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Iowa City, 1981.

"Sugar Production in the Mediterranean at the Time of the Crusades." Symposium: "The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange between East and West during the Period of the Crusades," held in conjunction with the Sixteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor, 1981.

"Two Legacies of the Crusades: Sugar and Slavery." Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY, Binghampton, 1980.

"Spain's Northern Merchant Marine in the Sixteenth Century." American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1978.

"Burgos to Bruges: Castile's Late Medieval Wool Trade." Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1978.

"Shippers and Shipbuilders in Northern Spain in the Sixteenth Century." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Terre Haute, 1977.

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"State Service in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Additional Evidence and Interpretations." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York, 1975.

"Opportunities for Medieval Research at the Archivo General de Simancas." Academy of American Research Historians on Medieval Spain, in conjunction with the convention of the American Historical Association, Chicago, 1974.

"From Toleration to Intolerance: The Case of Medieval Spain." Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1974.

"State Service in Fifteenth-Century Castile: The Royal Appointees of Juan II, Enrique IV, and the Reyes Católicos." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, La Jolla, 1974.

"The End of the Middle Ages in Castile: The Reign of Enrique IV." Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1972.

"Enrique IV: Precursor of the Reyes Católicos." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, 1972.

"Enrique IV as Príncipe de Asturias." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Middletown, CT, 1970.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Chair of session, “”Ships and Shipbuilding,” in the conference: “Atlantic Navigation,” XVIII International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science, Universidade dos Açores, Campus de Ponta Delgada, November 12, 2018.

Commentator, “Reveal/Conceal: Early Modern Clothing and Identities,” at the annual conference of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Portland State University, Portland, OR, April 6, 2018.

Chair of session, “Epics, Legends, and the Medieval Superhero,” at the annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, October 7, 2015.

Commentator, “Slavery and Race in Europe before 1611, Part II,” at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York, March 29, 2014.

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Chair of session and commentator, “Pirates! Pirates! PIRATES!!! Maritime Thieves and Trade in Late Medieval Italy,” at the annual convention of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2, 2014.

Crew Member, Colleague Cruise, Sea Education Association, S.S.V. Robert C. Seamans, Sausalito to San Pedro, CA, July 25-30, 2012.

Chair of session, “Renaissance Studies, I,” at the Mediterranean Studies Conference, Salamanca, Spain, May 28, 2010.

Chair of session, “Globalizing the Middle Ages,” at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, San Diego, January 8, 2010.

Participant in a Humanities Scholars’ mini-residence on coordinating high-performance computing institutes and the digital humanities sponsored by the Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, May 14-15, 2009.

Coordinator, logistical organizer, and manager, Social History of the Sea conference, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, May 1-3, 2008.

Chair and commentator on Session, “Visions of Medieval Spain,” Thirty-eighth Annual Conference, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Miami Beach, April 21, 2007.

Chair of Session, ‘Environmental History of the Middle Ages II: Landscapes, Societies, Ecologies, Economies,” Forty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 3, 2006.

Judge of undergraduate research papers, Phi Alpha Theta, Southern California Regional Conference, California State University, Fullerton, April 2006.

Chair of Session, “Of Terror and Healing: Medicine and the Slave Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, San Marino, CA, February 3, 2006.

Chair of Sessions and Commentator, “Medieval Spanish Religion,” and “Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain,” annual conference, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, March 10, 2005.

Editorial board, Medieval Encounters, 2004-09.21


Chair of Session, “The Mediterranean in the Medieval Period,” Fourth International Congress of Maritime History,” Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, June 23, 2004.

Chair of Session, “Human Economy and Natural Environment in Medieval Europe III: Mutual Impacts and Changes,” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7, 2004.

Chair of Session, “Culture and Society in Medieval Spain,” annual conference, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Madrid, Spain, July 4, 2003.

Co-organizer of conference, “Religious Conflict and Accommodation in the Early Modern World,” Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, April 25-26, 2003.

Chair of session, "Christians, Muslims, and Jews II," annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Minneapolis, April 11, 2003.

Program Committee for 2002 meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 2002. Responsible for coordinating papers and sessions on Iberian and Iberoamerian history. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

Chair of session, "The Portuguese World in the Sixteenth Century," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, October 2002.

Chair of session, "Human Economy and Natural Environment in the Middle Ages," at the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2002.

Chair of session, "Cultural Resonances: Papal Avignon and the History of Ideas," in the conference "The Cultures of Papal Avignon (1309-1378)," Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, April 25-27, 2002.

Chair of session and commentator, "New Perspectives on the Medieval and Early Modern Clergy," Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Athens, GA, April 12, 2002.

Chair of session, in the conference "Holy Journeys, Holy Places: Medieval Pilgrimage and Sacred Geography," Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, March 9, 2002.

Chair of session, "Oceans and Peoples," at the biennial conference of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA,

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February 14, 2002.

Organizing committee member (one of three), conference "Conversion to Christianity," University of Minnesota, April 2001. Also chaired a session at the conference.

Chair of session, "Royal Power in Philip II's Spain," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Santa Fe, April 2001.

Chair of session, "Human Economy and Natural Environment in the Middle Ages, Session IV: Uses and Impact: Terrestrial Systems," 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2000.

Chair of session, "Eunuchs in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean World: Perception and Social Construction," American Historical Association, Chicago, January 7, 2000.

Organizer and chair of session, "Building an Empire in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Crown of Aragón," sponsored by the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, January 9, 1998.

Member of the Comité Científico, International conference "Hacia un nuevo humanismo," Córdoba, Spain, September 1997.

Local Arrangements Coordinator, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 27th annual meeting, Minneapolis, April 1997

General Secretary (president) of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1994-1996.

Chair of session, "Empire and Identity in Early Modern Spain," 26th annual meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Tucson, April 27, 1996.

Local Arrangements Coordinator, Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, first annual conference, Minneapolis, April 1996.

Chair of session, "Violence and Coercion in Medieval and Early Modern Pluri-ethnic Spain," American Historical Association, Atlanta, January 5, 1996.

Chair of session in the conference, "City Walls," Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, October 5, 1995.

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Chair of session in the conference "Medieval Crime and Social Control," Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, February 17, 1995.

Invited participant in a forum on the "Current State of Spanish Historiography," Tufts University, Medford, MA May 19, 1994.

Invited guest at the ceremonies inaugurating the Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, Tufts University, May 18, 1994.

Invited participant at the organizational meeting of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI, April 21-23, 1994.

Program Chair, 25th annual meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Chicago, April 1994.

Organizer and chair of session: "The Early Portuguese Overseas Empire," annual meeting, American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 8, 1994.

Chair, conference session: "The Age of Discovery," 24th annual meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Antonio, March 1993.

"The Impact of 1992 on Christopher Columbus," a lecture to the history department, University of Washington, Seattle, November 1992.

"Portugal, Spain, and the Old World Background of Columbus's Voyages," joint lecture with Carla Rahn Phillips, as part of a series on "Rediscovery and Discovery: Indians and Europeans in the Americas," University of Western Washington, Bellingham, November 5, 1992.

"The Worlds of Christopher Columbus," Minneapolis Club Luncheon Lecture Series, October 15, 1992. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

Instructor, NEH institute on maritime history at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, August 1992.

Guest lecturer to an NEH Summer Seminar of New Jersey schoolteachers, Philadelphia, PA, June 25, 1992.

Guest lecturer, discussed research problems dealing with Christopher Columbus at the 24


Mellon Faculty Development Seminar, Occidental College, Los Angeles, April 7, 1992. Also presented a guest lecture in a course on the global encounter that began with Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.

"Columbus and His Work," lecture in the symposium series "Transoceanic Encounters," Honolulu, February 29, 1992.

"Columbus and Discovery in the Atlantic," lecture in the symposium series "Transoceanic Encounters," Hilo, February 27, 1992. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)

Organizer of two sessions at the 1991 meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago: "Portugal and Africa in the Age of Encounter," sponsored by the AHA Committee on the Columbus Quincentennial; and "Medieval Spain and the Mediterranean," joint session of the AHA with the Academy of American Research Historians of Medieval Spain.

Mentor, in the 1991 Humanities Teacher Institute, "500 Years: Rediscovering the Americas," sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities, Colgate University, July 13-21, 1991. Lecture to the institute, "The Old World and the New," July 14, 1991.

Chair, session in conference "City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe," Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, March 2, 1991.

Chair, session on "The Columbian Moment," in the conference "Implicit Ethnographies," Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 5, 1990.

Editorial board member, Minnesota Studies in Comparative Early Modern History, 1990-2002.

Translation Coordinator, Repertorium Columbianum, originally edited by Fredi Chiappelli, Vol. 1A: Spanish Documents.

Presenter/participant in the NEH-funded planning conference, "Christopher Columbus and the Humanties: Separating the Man from the Myth," University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 12, 1989.

Faculty, NEH 1989 Summer Institute "The Intellectual World of Christopher Columbus," for Week V: Iberian Experiences in Exploration and Discovery in the Fifteenth Century, UCLA, August 1989.

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Organizer and moderator, First Annual World History Symposium, "The World on the Eve of Columbus's First Voyage," San Diego State University, April 1988.

Chair, session in conference "Renaissance Culture and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World," University of California, Los Angeles, March 1988.

Chair, conference session: "Support for the Faith: Economic Aspects of the Catholic Church in the Iberian Empires during the Sixteenth Century," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Tempe, Arizona, October 1987.

Moderator, session on "Transaction Costs," in conference "The Rise of Merchant Empires," University of Minnesota, October 1987.

Historical adviser, television project on the Libro de Buen Amor, for WGBH-TV, Boston, 1985-1987. (Participated in planning conference, Boston and Cambridge, MA, May 1987.)

Organizer, chair, and commentator, session on Spanish and Latin American wills, at the an-nual conference of the Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Austin, Texas, April 1987.

Chair, conference session: "Ships and Shipping in the Hispanic World," American Historical Association, New York, 1985.

Participant in the Columbus Quincentennial Research Planning Conference, sponsored by

Indiana University, the NEH, and the Johnson Foundation, Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin, September 28-30, 1984.

Discussant in session "The Economic and Social Structures of Mediterranean and Meseta Spain" at the conference "The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and Jaume the Conqueror: Intellect and Force in the Middle Ages." Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, 1981.

Revised article "Ferdinand and Isabella" for The New Book of Knowledge, 1980.

TEACHING

(At the University of Minnesota)Graduate:

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Four completed PhDs:Lawrence Mott, 1999, Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark, 2002-2006, Senior research associate, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, 2006--. Librarian, Lincoln Memorial University

Anne-Marie Wolf, 2003, Professor of History, University of Portland, 2003-2010, University of Maine, Farmington, 2010---.Michael A. Ryan, 2005, Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University, 2005-11, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico, 2011---.Luis A. Morera, 2010, Instructor, Baylor University, 2010---.

Three completed MAs, Tod McManis, 1991; Robert Caballero, 1997; David Perry, 1999.

Proseminars on medieval Spain, European expansion, medieval Europe and the World, the Atlantic world, and the European High and Late Middle Ages

Undergraduate:Medieval Europe (introductory courses in history and Medieval Studies)Medieval Europe and the WorldMedieval Spain, Modern SpainExpansion of EuropeWorld HistoryIntroduction to European HistoryAtlantic WorldHow to do History

(At San Diego State University)Graduate:Directed four M.A. studentsSeminars and proseminars in medieval and early modern Europe

Upper division:Europe in the Middle AgesMedieval Spain; Modern SpainThe Mediterranean World in the Middle AgesThe Writing of HistorySlavery in Medieval EuropeEurope, 1350-1750Humanities: Medieval, Enlightenment and Romanticism

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Lower division: Western CivilizationWorld HistoryHumanities: Greece and Rome, Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation,

Enlightenment

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

(At the University of Minnesota)

Center for Early Modern History:

Director, 2001-2008 Interim Director, 1989-90, Spring 2011Steering Committee, 1988-2013.

Department:

Ad hoc Committee for associate professors, Spring 2013.Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2010-2011.Committee on Promotion, Tenure, and Merit, 2007-08.Graduate Studies Committee, 2006-07.Mentor for ABD instructors, 2001-04 Director of Graduate Studies, 1996-98.Associate Chair, 1991-92, 1993-94, spring semester 2000.Curriculum Committee, 2001-02Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1994-95, 2001-2002PMT Committee, 1990-92, 1998-99. Chair, 1991-92.Director of TA training, 1999-2000.Advisory Committee, elected, 1995-96.Advisory Committee, ex oficio, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1996-98, spring semester 2000 .Recording Secretary, 1989-90.Map Officer, 1989-91.Ad hoc committee on new world history course, 1988-90.

College of Liberal Arts:

Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-2004. Search committee for chair of Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2003-2004.Course review committee, 1991-92.

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Executive Committee, Center for Medieval Studies, 1989-90, 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2007-2008. Student Services Committee, 1998-99, 1999-2000.

University:

Board member, Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2007-2011.Senate Library Committee (Chair, 2002-03), 2002-05. Search committee for curator of James Ford Bell Library, 2001-2002. Graduate School Grants Committee, 1999-2000.Social Sciences Policy and Review Council, 1996-97, 1997-98.

(At San Diego State University)

Department:

Scholarship Committee, 1987-88. (Chair)Executive Committee, 1975, 1987-88.Graduate Coordinator (director of graduate studies), 1980-84.Curriculum Committee, 1981-84.Campus and Community Relations Committee, 1978-80. (Chair)Chair of Promotions Committee, 1979-80.Recruitment Committee, 1976-77.Ad hoc committee on new course in global history, 1975-76.Leaves and Grants Committee, 1974-75.Ad hoc committee on undergraduate advising, 1974-75.Recording Secretary, 1974-75. College of Arts and Letters

Selection Committee for Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Awards, 1988.Selection Committee, Université de Provence exchange, 1986Promotions Committee, 1976-77, 1979-80.Humanities Committee, 1975-77.Research Committee, 1973-75. (Chair, 1974-75)Ad hoc committee for new humanities curriculum, 1971-72.Elections Committee, 1971-72.

University:

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Graduate Council, 1980-81, 1982-83.Participant in seminar "Writing Across the Curriculum," 1982.Latin American Studies Committee, 1970-74.International Programs Committee, 1971-72.

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Elizabeth R. Wright, University of Toronto Quarterly, 2018, Vol.87(3), 486-487.

The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus, by David S.H. Abulafia, Renaissance Quarterly, 60(Spring 2009): 171-72.

Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade, ed. José C. Curto and Renée Soulodre-La France, Hispanic American Historical Review, 88, 4 (2008): 729-730.

Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age, ed. Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan, Itinerario, 31,1 (2007).

Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky, in Itinerario. 28,1 (2004): 110-111.Histoires d’esclaves dans la Péninsule Ibérique, by Alessandro Stella, in Hispanic

American Historical Review, 82,4 (2002): Encuentros en Flandes: Relaciones e intercambios hispanoflamencos a inicios de la Edad

Moderna, by Thomas Werner and Robert A. Verdonk, eds., in the Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 27, 2-3 (Summer-Winter 2002): 59-60.

Prince Henry "The Navigator": A Life, by Peter Russell, in the Journal of Modern History, 74,2 (2002): 427-28.

A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean, by Molly Green, in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 16-17 (2000-2001), 615-16.

El debate sobre la caballería en el siglo XV: La tratadística caballeresca castellana en su marco europeo, by J. D. Rodríguez Velasco, in Speculum, 75/4 (October 2000): 984-86.

The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile, by Simon Barton, in the Journal of Social History, 33, 1 (Fall 1999): 229-30.

Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages, by Richard C. Hoffman, in the Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 24,2 (1999): 30.

Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined, by Miles Davidson, in the Journal of 30


American History, (June 1998): 208-209.The Global Oportunity, ed. by Felipe Fernández Armesto; The European Opportunity, ed.

by idem; The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed, ed. by Ursula Lamb, in Journal of World History, 8,2 (Fall 1997): 326-28.

Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500-c. 1800, by Anthony Pagden, in American Historical Review, 102,3 (June 1997): 808.

The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350, by Robert Bartlett, in American Historical Review, February 1995, pp. 143-144.

The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education, by Jonathan Berkey, in History of Education Quarterly, 34,2 (1994(: 238-39.

The Libro de las profecías of Christopher Columbus: An en face edition, trans. Delno C. West and August Kling, Speculum, 69,1 (1994): 124-25..

The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus, by Valerie I. J. Flint, in American Historical Review, 98,5 (December 1993): 1589-90.

La Casa Bocangelina: Una familia hispanogenovesa en la España del Siglo de Oro, by Trevor J. Dadson, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, 24,3 (Fall 1993): 755-56.

Rights of Discovery: Christopher Columbus's Final Appeal to King Fernando, transcrip-tion, translation, and critical edition by Helen Nader, Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 18,3 (Fall 1993): 19-20.

Columbus, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, in American Neptune, 53,2 (Spring 1993): 136-37.

Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650, by Daniel Goffman, in Modern Greek Studies, 8 (1992):480.

The Medieval Expansion of Europe, by J.R.S. Phillips, in American Historical Review, 95,3 (June 1990): 798-99.

Pastoral Economics in the Kingdom of Naples, by John A. Marino, in Sixteenth Century Journal, 21,1 (1990): 147.

Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492, by Felipe Fernández Armesto, in Speculum, 65,1 (January 1990): 152-54.

Segovia: La ciudad y su tierra a fines del medievo, by María Asenjo González, in Speculum, 65,3 (July 1990): 604-605.

L'Eubée à la fin du XVe siècle: Economie et population, Les registres de l'année 1474, by Evangelia Balta, in Modern Greek Studies, 6 (1990): 500-501.

Early Habsburg Spain, by A. W. Lovett, in American Historical Review, 94/1 (February 1989): 156-57.

Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649-1571, by John H. Prior, in Isis, 80/4/304 (1989): 686-87.

Alfonso X the Learned: Emperor of Culture, edited by Robert I. Burns, S.J., in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 13/1 (January 1988): 33-34.

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Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier, by James W. Brodman, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 13/1 (January 1988): 34-35.

Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725, by Richard Hellie, in Sixteenth Century Journal, 1987.Hechos de Don Berenguel de Landoria, Arzobispo de Santiago, ed. by Manuel C. Díaz y

Díaz, et al., in Speculum, 1987.Burgos en la Edad Media, by Carlos Estepa et al., in Speculum, 1986.Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control, by K. R. Bradley, in

American Historical Review, 1986.Land and Society in Golden Age Castile, by David Vassberg, in American Historical

Review, 1985.Madrid and the Spanish Economy, 1560-1850, by David Ringrose, in Journal of San Diego

History, 1984.Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400-1000, by Roger Collins, in History Teacher,

1984.El condado de Luna en la baja edad media, by César Alvarez Alvarez, in Speculum, 1984.Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies, by J. E.

Inikori, ed., in History Teacher, 1984.The World Encompassed: The First European Maritime Empires, c. 800-1650, by G. V.

Scammell, in History Teacher, 1983.La asistencia a los pobres en Burgos en la baja edad media, by Luis Martínez García, in

Speculum, 1983.El siglo XV en Castilla: Fuentes de renta y política fiscal, by Miguel Angel Ladero Quesa-

da, in AARHMS Newsletter, 1984.Christian Córdoba: The City and Its Region in the Late Middle Ages, by John Edwards, in

American Historical Review, 1983.A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555, by A. C. de C. M.

Saunders, in Sixteenth Century Journal, 1983.Rebelión, monarquía y oligarquía murciana en la época de Carlos V, by John B. Owens, in

American Historical Review, 1982.Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1171-1740, by Majorie Grice-Hutchinson, in Journal of

European Economic History, 1980.The Troubadour Revival, by Roger Boase, in American Historical Review, 1979.Charles V, by Manuel Fernández Alvarez, and Philip II of Spain, by P. Pierson, in Hispanic

American Historical Review, 1977.La época medieval, by José Angel García de Cortázar, Hispanic American Historical

Review, 1974.The Spain of Fernando de Rojas, by Stephen Gilman, in Hispanic American Historical

Review, 1973.Henry IV of Castile, by Townsend Miller, in Hispanic American Historical Review, 1973.The Medieval Soldier, by A. V. B. Norman, and Medieval Warfare, by G. Hindley, in

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Military Affairs, 1972. La aviación en la guerra de España, by Salvador Rello, in Aerospace Historian, 1972.Historia de España: Edad Media, by L. Suárez Fernández, in Hispanic American Historical

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Short reviews in Choice:

Pack, Sasha D. The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019) (Jul. 2019)

Hershenzon, Daniel. The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) (Apr. 2019)

Constable, Olivia Remie. To Live Like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) (Sept. 2018)

Drayson, Elizabeth. The Moor’s Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End. (Interlink Publishing Group, 2017) (Feb 2018)

Coope, Jessica A. The Most Noble of People: Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017) (Feb. 2018)

Tremlett, Giles. Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017) (Aug. 2017)

Fernández-Morera, Darío. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic rule in Medieval Spain. (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2016) (Oct. 2016).

Kimmel, Seth. Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain. ( Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2015) (Apr. 2016)

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