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Christopher Ebert
Associate Professor
History
Location: 1127c Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5303
Fax: 718.951.4504
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Christopher Ebert, a California native, received his undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University, a school that has much in common with Brooklyn College.
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University - 2004 (Latin American History)
Areas of Expertise:
Ebert studies and teaches Latin American history from an Atlantic perspective. His research so far has focused on colonial Brazil and Portuguese Atlantic expansion, including trade and shipping. He has also studied Dutch trade and Atlantic expansion. He is now completing a book manuscript based on research in Europe and Brazil on the social and economic history of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first colonial capital.
Books and Publications
Review of: Daniel Strum, "The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands (1595?1630)." Translated by Colin Foulkes, Roopanjali Roy, and H. Sabrina Gledhill (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), in "World Sugar History Newsletter." (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2015
Review of Creolization and Contraband: Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World, by Linda M. Rupert (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2012). Journal of Early Modern History 17. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2013
"European Competition and Cooperation in Early-Modern Globalization: Portuguese Africa, 1500-1600." African Economic History 36. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Salvador da Bahia." Places of Encounter. Ed. Priscilla McGeehon. Westview Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
Review of Luis De Molina's De Iustitia et Iure: Justice as Virtue in an Economic Context, by Diego Alonso-Lasheras. Renaissance Quarterly 65.1. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2012
"Atlantic Trade and the Development of Maritime Insurance to 1630." Past & Present 213.1. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
"From Gold to Manioc: Contraband Trade in Brazil During the Golden Age, 1700-1750." Colonial Latin American Review 21.1. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Review of Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of Gunpowder Empires, by Kris Lane. Renaissance Quarterly. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010
Between Empires: Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Economy, 1550-1630. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2008
Book review of A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640, by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert. Historica (Peru). (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2008
Book review of The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750-1830, by Hal Langfur. Itinerario.
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/itinerario/bookreviews-27.html. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2008
Book review of Sugar, Slavery, and Society: Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes, and the United States. Ed. Bernard Moitt. H-net Reviews.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=279111158956151. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006
"Dutch Trade with Brazil before the Dutch West India Company, 1587-1621." Riches from Atlantic Commerce. Eds. Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill. 49-75. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2004
Book review of Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680. Ed. Stuart B. Schwartz. Journal of Economic History. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/cupjechis/v_3A64_3Ay_3A2005_3Ai_3A04_3Ap_3A1159-1160_5F37.htm. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2004
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Honorary Fellow, History Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
PSC-CUNY Enhanced Research Grant, for research in Spain and the Netherlands. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Wolfe Institute Faculty Fellowship, spring. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
PSC-CUNY Research Grant, for study in Rio de Janeiro. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 2008-09. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
PSC-CUNY Research Grant, for research in Salvador da Bahia in summer. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Harvard Atlantic Seminar Short-term Research Grant, to support research in Salvador da Bahia in spring. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Tow Faculty Travel Award, for summer research in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 2007. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
Foundation for Luso-American Development summer research grant at the Portuguese National Archive, Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, Portugal. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
Research Activities
Completing a book on the history of the first capital of colonial Brazil and its global connections, entitled: "Salvador da Bahia and the Making of the South Atlantic, 1549-1763." The work is based on research in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, London, Lisbon, Seville, the Hague and Amsterdam. 2012
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Slaves and Intoxicants: The Intermingled Economies of West Africa and Bahia, 1650-1750." Wolfe Fellows Series. Brooklyn College. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Colonial Salvador da Bahia and the 'South-Atlantic Complex.'" Atlantic World Research Network, Lunchtime Colloquia. University of North Carolina, Greensboro. April 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Salvador da Bahia: Economic and Social Aspects of a Proto-global City in Brazil, 1650-1750." Sponsored by Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. May 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Sugar and Tobacco in Dutch Bottoms: Bahian Products and Dutch Traders After the Dutch Retreat From Pernambuco in 1654." Colonial Misunderstandings: Portugal and Europe in Global Perspectives: 1450-1900. Centro de Historia Alem-Mar. Lisbon, Portugal, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Trans-imperial and Trading Nodes in the South Atlantic, 1650-1750." Actor Networks Between "Global Markets" and "The Nation," 1650-1950. Freie Universität Berlin. August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Disembedding Salvador da Bahia From Its Hinterland: Economic History of a Proto-global City, 1650-1750." Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective Conference. Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington, D.C., September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Salvador da Bahia, 1650-1750: A Global Hub in the South Atlantic." Shaping the South Atlantic Complex: Networks and Exchanges, 1500-1822 panel. Annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Chicago. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Textual Representation of Brazilian Colonial Towns: Early-Modern Traditions, Genres and Innovations." Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Discussant for paper: "State Building and Nation Formation in Iberian America: Independence and the Development of a Political Language of Patriotism in Brazil," offered by Marco Antonio Pamplona; professor and chairman, Department of History, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro. Conference in Honor of Herbert S. Klein. Columbia University. New York, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Ebert, Christopher and Michael Rawson. "Reflections on Developing Program-Level Learning Assessment in a History Department." Assessment in the Social Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities. City University of New York. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Maintaining Exclusion: British Trade with Brazil after the War of the Spanish Succession, 1715-1750." Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long Eighteenth Century Conference. New York University. February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Discussant for paper: "Spaces in Time: Rio's Logradouros, from Colony to Metropolis" offered by Shawn Miller, professor and chair, Department of History, Brigham Young University. Rethinking Brazilian History: Conference in Honor of Boris Fausto. Stanford University, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"Slaves and the Provisioning of colonial Salvador da Bahia," presentation in series of linked panels on urban slavery in colonial Latin America. Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference. Rio de Janeiro, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Early Atlantic Trade and Its Institutional Context: Insurance Markets in Portugal and Amsterdam." Economy and the State in the Late Medieval/Early Modern Low Countries Workshop. Sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie. Columbia University. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"European Competition and Cooperation in the First Stage of Transoceanic Globalization: Portuguese Africa, 1500-1600," European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Provisioning Colonial Salvador da Bahia: The Urban Market in an Atlantic Port City." Hotspots in Early Modern Globalization Seminar. Center for Historical Research, Ohio State University. October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Insurance and Inter-Imperial Merchant Organization in the Early Atlantic Economy and Their Institutional Contexts." Economic and Business Historical Society. Providence, R.I., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"The Unfortunate Voyage of 'de Hoope:' International investment in the Brazilian Trade before the Dutch West India Company." Stanford Social Sciences History Workshop. Stanford University. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
