Dr. Jorge Cañizares Esguerra

Biography

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is a Professor and the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and specializes in colonial Latin American history. His research interests include the Scientific Revolution, Reformation, Enlightenment, and the intellectual history of colonial Spanish America. He explores how historiographical categories shape narratives of the past and highlights the often invisible histories within the colonial context. His significant works include 'Writing History in the New World' translated into Spanish and Portuguese, as well as 'Puritan Conquistadors' and 'Nature, Empire, Nation.' He has edited books such as 'Entangled Empires: Anglo-Iberian Atlantic Worlds 1500-1830' and 'The Princeton Handbook of Atlantic History.' Cañizares-Esguerra has a broad research focus that challenges traditional narratives of modernity and emphasizes the contributions of Latin American histories to global historical contexts. He teaches various courses at the University of Texas at Austin, including 'Thinking Like a Historian,' 'Colonial Latin America,' and 'Atlantic History.'

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