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Nicolás Wey Gόmez studies the histories of exploration, empire, race, and globalization in the early modern Iberian world. His work on Spain and Portugal examines the role that science and technology, along with related fields, played in the explosion of empirical knowledge that prefigured the Scientific Revolution and the role of forging a global empire with modern concepts. He has held a position as a Professor at California Institute of Technology since 2010, having previously served as an Associate Professor since 2010. He has received several awards including the Associated Students Caltech Teaching Award in 2014, the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association of America in 2009, and an Honorable Mention for the Tropics Empire category in the World History Biography from the American Publishers Awards for Professional Scholarly Excellence in 2008.
California Institute of Technology • Pasadena, CA
Teaching and research in the Department of History, focusing on the early modern Iberian world.
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