The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025. www.rsa.org/general/cust...

Another article by @hectorlinares.bsky.social - this one on an escaped enslaved man from Sierra Leone who managed, via a royal petition, to get his former enslaver to pay him a pension in recognition of his military service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/l...

Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!

@hectorlinares.bsky.social examines petitions from the Inca royal family to the Council of the Indies, examining their attempts to preserve their family's standing in the new colonial order emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/l...

So honored to have been part of this amazing series!

Very happy to welcome Nathalie to Suffolk!!

If you’re in Portland this week for SCSC conference, please stop by two panels Héctor Linares Gonzalez & I have co-organized on saints, relics, and religious self-fashioning in the Iberian world! I am (sadly) not at SCSC because I’m on fellowship in Napoli, so go and support our panels 🥳

@hectorlinares.bsky.social 🥳

My latest chapter has been just published in a wonderful collection of essays on the Duke of Lerma and his term as the royal favorite of Philip III of Spain! In this piece, I explore the role of Lerma as a stateman within the military orders, where he disguised himself as an efficient bureaucrat.

Boston is ready for Halloween! 🎃

Very happy to welcome Nathalie to Suffolk!!

I recently finished reading Mayu Fujikawa’s new exceptional book for an upcoming review. She expertly analyzes a wide variety of visual and material sources to reconstruct and decode the diverse representations of Japanese embassies in premodern Europe.

Join us on October 23 for a new session of the Suffolk Early Global Studies Seminar. In this occasion we will be conversing about hospitals, charity, and medicine in the premodern Hispanic world. Dr. Restrepo will be sharing his research on hospitals in 17th century Colombia! Zoom option available!

@juanmaramive.bsky.social visited my class on Global Migrations and gave a wonderful lecture on Women and migration in the Spanish Atlantic. My students absolutely loved it. Thank you for coming to Suffolk University!

Students of Global Humanities, enrolled in Prof. Linares' courses, visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts today, discovering numerous primary sources for their final research projects.

Profs. Lasdow and Linares lead the annual Workshop on “How to apply to Graduate School,” which provides undergraduate students across the College of Arts & Sciences with insight into navigating the graduate school application process.

On Tuesday, October 7th, the Department of Global Humanities will celebrate its annual Open House! Please stop by to know our department, courses, majors, programs, and Faculty!

The department is organizing a workshop to guide students to apply for Graduate School! All information in the poster below 👇

Please join us on September 23 from 12:30 to 2pm at Tremont 1102 for the research Seminar “Troubling the Bounds of Empire,” organized by Dr. Linares and with the participation of wonderful scholars such as Chase Smith (UCLA), Joe Bienko (PSU), and Keith Richards (Tulane).

My latest article on Barbara de Atahualpa explores the letters that a nine-year old Inca girl sent to Spanish monarch Philip III to revindicate the memory of Inca Atahualpa. @16csociety.bsky.social

My latest article on Barbara de Atahualpa explores the letters that a nine-year old Inca girl sent to Spanish monarch Philip III to revindicate the memory of Inca Atahualpa. @16csociety.bsky.social

I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific. We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

🌍✨ Call for Papers! ✨🌍 SIGA is excited to sponsor a panel at CAA 2026 that explores the ambitious, adaptive, and at times unstable histories of early modern architecture in the Iberian world. (1/7)

What a month in Chicago! I spent 4 weeks as a fellow of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. I met so many nice people and found plenty of documents for my book! 📖

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Historian @hectorlinares.bsky.social‬ traces Antón’s story through letters as well as legal and administrative records, showing how some Afro-descendants navigated colonial institutions to claim honor, status, and citizenship. 📝 Read more in Vol 81, Issue 4: bit.ly/3DXIucs

I just finished reading López Fadul’s wonderful book. She demonstrates the critical role of etymology in Spanish imperial building and governance, arguing that it served as an archive of knowledge.

CFP: 44th Annual Medieval Studies Conference Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University February 27-March 1, 2026 Theme: "Boundaries, Crossings, and Crossroads in the Medieval Iberian Worlds (500-1600)." mvstconference.ace.fordham.edu/iberianworlds/

Backed by the Audiencia de Panamá and King Philip II, he not only received manumission but was also granted a royal pension and the right to bear arms. These privileges recognized his calidad (status) and subverted the colonial power dynamic between enslaved and enslaver.

Antón Zape, an enslaved African from Sierra Leone, secured his freedom in 1584 after years of military service to the Spanish Crown in Panama. His case reveals the many strategies of Afro-descendants "to live their own lives and achieve their own goals under imperialism." 🧵⬇️

If you missed the #Slaveryarchive Book Club today (tonight) with our dear Chloe Ireton on her great book Slavery and Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2025), you can watch the entire discussion on our channel www.youtube.com/live/oVrV5ah...

My #AtlanticStudies article “Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an 18th-c library that crisscrossed the Atlantic” 📚 🌎 won the Williamson Award 🏆 for Best Social Research given by @lehighu.bsky.social (DM for a copy) #bookhistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My chapter on João de Sá, the African knight of the Order of Santiago in Chafariz del Rei, is now out in the new, marvelous Routledge Companion to Race and Visual Production. Through visual and documentary analysis, I demonstrate that João de Sá is indeed the Black knight depicted in this painting.

My chapter on João de Sá, the African knight of the Order of Santiago in Chafariz del Rei, is now out in the new, marvelous Routledge Companion to Race and Visual Production. Through visual and documentary analysis, I demonstrate that João de Sá is indeed the Black knight depicted in this painting.

📣 The RSA San Francisco 2026 Calls for Papers submission form is now open! Submit your CfPs by August 15 to organize sessions for our Annual Meeting being held February 19–21, 2026. The Public Index of Calls for Papers is also online: www.rsa.org/news/701177/... #RenSA26 #RenTwitter #earlymodern

Gratis books: I'm giving up to 3 copies of the paperback of `Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs' gratis to interested PhD students, ERC or Independent researchers. Write a comment below: 1st-come, 1st-served basis. (Happy to post UK &Abroad; postal expenses allowing).

I don’t quite know what to say about this, but I’m very happy and very grateful, and I’m looking forward to reading everyone else’s wonderful work!

Friends in London: I will be celebrating the publication of my new book 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' cup.org/4gUfaSj on May 8 at IAS-UCL, in conversation with esteemed scholars and dear friends. Hope you can join! Registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Job!

This beauty arrived today, a marvelous book to which I have contributed a chapter on conflicts of jurisdictions at the Council of Military Orders in early modern Spain.

This beauty arrived today, a marvelous book to which I have contributed a chapter on conflicts of jurisdictions at the Council of Military Orders in early modern Spain.

I just finished Adolfo Polo’s excellent new book on mobility and royal service in the Iberian World. Highly recommended!

Job Opportunity! University of Florida Director, Center for Latin American Studies www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

We have a new doctor in the Penn State family! Congratulations Dr. Clark! 🍾

Job Opportunity! The Department of History at Boston College seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor. Visiting faculty typically teach a linked sequence of two survey courses, “Globalization I” (Fall) and “Globalization II” (Spring). www.h-net.org/jobs//job_di...

My new article is out! Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Beautiful sunny day at Penn State, spring is coming!! 🌺 ☀️