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GABRIEL DE AVILEZ ROCHA
[email protected]
3250 Chestnut Street
MacAlister Hall, Suite 3025
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: MacAlister Hall, Room 5024
Phone: (215) 895-2468
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, History Department, Drexel University: September 2016 - present
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department of History, New York University, 2016
Dissertation Title: “Empire from the Commons: Making Colonial Archipelagos in the
Early Iberian Atlantic”
B.A. (magna cum laude), Department of Literature, Harvard College, 2008
Certificate in Latin American Studies, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies, Harvard University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Empire from the Commons: Making Colonial Archipelagos in the Early Atlantic (in
progress)
The Voyage of the Red Dragon: Science and Violence in the Atlantic World (in progress)
With Kenneth Maxwell, Bruno Carvalho, and John Huffman, O Livro de Tiradentes:
Transmissão Atlântica de Idéias Políticas no Século XVIII, (São Paulo: Companhia das
Letras, 2013).
Articles and Chapters
“The Azorean Connection: A Social History of the Gulf Stream” in Ida Altman and
David Wheat, eds., The Spanish Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century (forthcoming,
University of Nebraska Press)
“Plundering the Plunderers: Protection and Confiscation in the Early Atlantic” in Bain
Attwood, Adam Clulow, and Lauren Benton, eds., Protection and Empire in World
History (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
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“Fowl Politics: Fiscal and Legal Arrangements Over Avian Species on Terceira Island
(Azores), 1550-1600.” (under review, Early American Studies)
“Toward a Political Ecology of Marronage in the Early Colonial Caribbean.” (under
review)
“George Washington in Minas Gerais.” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America
(Spring 2007), pp. 78-79.
Book Reviews
Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas
(forthcoming, Law and History Review)
Susanna Hecht, The Scramble for the Amazon and the ‘Lost Paradise’ of Euclides da
Cunha in Terrae Incognitae 46:1 (April 2014), pp. 53-54.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Richard S. Dunn Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,
University of Pennsylvania: 2015-2016
Warren Dean Fellowship, Department of History, New York University: 2014-2015
International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council: Spain,
Portugal, United States, 2014
Seminar Participant and Scholar-in-Residence, Huntington-Clark Summer Institute, “The
Global Early Modern Caribbean”: Huntington Library, 2014
Fulbright U.S. Student Award: Fulbright Institute of International Education, Instituto
Camões: Portugal, 2013-2014
Torch Prize Fellowship, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences:
2013-2014
Dissertation Development Grant and Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant, Mellon Mays
Foundation: 2012, 2014
RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
McNeil Center for Early American Studies -- Philadelphia, PA
Research Associate: 2016 2
History Department, Vanderbilt University -- Nashville, TN
Visiting Researcher: Summer 2016
History Department, New York University – New York, NY
Program Coordinator for the NYU Atlantic World Workshop: 2014 – 2015
Research Assistant for Lauren Benton: 2013-2015
Research Assistant for Karen Ordahl Kupperman: 2011 – 2012
Centro de História Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Lisbon, Portugal
Visiting Researcher, 2013 - 2014
Brazil Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
(DRCLAS), Harvard University – Cambridge, MA
Student Advisory Committee, Co-Chair, Spring 2008
Research and Teaching Assistant for Kenneth Maxwell, 2006 – 2007
DRCLAS Intern, 2005 – 2006
Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visiting Researcher, 2005
TEACHING
History Department, Drexel University -- Philadelphia, PA
Instructor of Record, “Global Environmental History” and “Ages of Exploration.”
Spring 2017.
History Department, New York University – New York, NY
Instructor of Record, “From Stonehenge to the Internet: The Commons in World
History”: Summer 2015.
Social Science Department, LaGuardia Community College – Queens, NY
Instructor of Record, “Themes in American History to 1865”: Fall 2014 II Term
Morse Academic Program, New York University – New York, NY
Adjunct Instructor for Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, “Empires and Political
Imagination in World History”: Spring 2013
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Saint Ann’s School – Brooklyn, NY
Associate Teacher, 2008 – 2010
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Montes y Palenques: Toward a Political Ecology of Marronage in the Early Colonial
Greater Antilles”: Early Modern Iberian Working Group, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Spanish and Portuguese: Philadelphia, November 2016.
“The Azorean Connection”: 16th-Century Spanish Caribbean Symposium, University of
Florida Gainesville: October 2016.
“Floating Bulwarks: Luso-Castilian Patrols of the Middle Atlantic in the Sixteenth
Century”: Protection and Empire World History Workshop, Harvard University: April
2016.
“From Research to Writing: State of the Dissertation Project”: SSRC-IDRF Fellows 2015
Summer Workshop. Berkeley University: June 2015.
“Incursionism in an Atlantic Commons: Plunder and Redistribution in a SixteenthCentury Iberian Expedition to Santa Marta”: Presentation for Philip Morgan’s Atlantic
Seminar, Johns Hopkins University: March 2015.
“Conquest, Commerce, and the ‘Little Fishes of the Sea’: Portuguese and Castilian
Imperial Escalation in an Atlantic Commons”: Presentation at Community Formation in
the Early Modern Iberian World, King Juan Carlos Center, New York University:
November 2014.
“Conquistador as Hunter: Enslavement and Conquest in the Nascent Portuguese
Atlantic”: Presentation for Richard Kagan’s Graduate Seminar on Early Modern Spanish
Empire, Johns Hopkins University: March 2012.
“Nações Imaginadas”: Harvard Department of History and Brazil Studies Workshop
Presentation with Kenneth Maxwell, Bruno Carvalho, and John Huffman: April 2007.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Presentations:
“‘We fyllyd water and wood and burned a toune of the Negros’: The Red Dragon in the
South Atlantic, 1586-7.” Council of Latin American History Panel, American History
Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, January 2017.
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“Azores-Caribbean Connections in the Long Sixteenth Century”: Accepted Paper for
47th Annual Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Historians. Havana, Cuba. June
2016.
“‘Pretendyd to the Indyes’: The Red Dragon in the South Atlantic, 1586-7”: Accepted
Paper for Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early
Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture. Washington, D.C. and College Park, MD, June 2016.
“Convergence and Diffusion: Terceira Island and the Azorean Atlantic in the Long
Sixteenth Century”: Accepted Paper for Port Cities in the Early Modern World, 15001800. McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Philadelphia, November 2015.
“Institutionalizing Plunder: French, Portuguese, and Spanish Triangulations in the
Atlantic Islands and West Africa, 1500-1550”: Accepted Paper for Emerging Histories of
the Early Modern French Atlantic. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture. Williamsburg, VA, October 2015.
“Birds’ Eye Views of Terceira: The ‘Arrendamento das Aves’ and Cross-Cultural Trade
in the Atlantic World, 1550-1580.” Panel participant in “From Networks to Spaces:
Social Identities, Craft Knowledge, and Cross-Cultural Trade”: Accepted Paper for
CHAM International Conference. Lisbon, July 2015.
“‘In All the Lands of the World, Pastures are [Held in] Common’: Livestock and Empire
in the Early Sixteenth-Century Caribbean”: Accepted Paper for Beyond Borders: The
Practice of Atlantic, Transnational, and World History Graduate Conference. University
of Pittsburgh. April 2015.
“Tordesillas Revisited: Conquest and the ‘Little Fishes of the Sea’ in the Ibero-African
Atlantic, 1480-1509.” Accepted Paper for “Money, Economics, and Power in the Spanish
Empire” Panel at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association of Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies. Johns Hopkins University, March 2015.
“Horizons of Conquest: Slaving, Taxation, and Natural Law in the Colonial Atlantic”:
New Worlds of Faith: Religion and Law in Historical Perspective: University of
Pennsylvania Law School, June 2013.
“‘The Law is Born From the Deed’: Iberian Plundering Voyages and the Right of
Conquest, 1421-1437.” Summer Academy of Atlantic History, Galway, Ireland: May
2011.
Panel Discussant:
NYU
“Social Ecologies of Colonization”: Experts and Expertise in the Atlantic World, New
York University Atlantic Conference, May 2016.
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“Disputing Imperial Caveats and Gray Areas”: Legends of Empire: Negotiating the
Imperial Moral Compass, New York University Atlantic World Conference, February
2012.
SERVICE TO PROFESSION AND DEPARTMENT:
Drexel University History Department
Co-Curricular Committee Member, 2016-2018
Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
Executive Committee Member, 2016-2019
2018 Conference Program Committee Member
Mellon Mays Professional Network,
Undergraduate Mentor, 2015-present
CAMPUS AND DEPARTMENTAL TALKS:
“A Common Atlantic: Seville and Lisbon in the 1490s”: Presentation for Prospective
Students Weekend, New York University History Department: February 2013
“Long Island, New York, and the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century: Archival
Leads at NYU”: Presentation for the Sylvester Manor Working Group, Fales Library,
New York University: April 2012
“Framing the Right of Conquest in Fifteenth-Century Iberia: Conquaero and
Filhamento” Presentation at NYU History Department Graduate Student Conference:
April 2011.
“This Inscrutable People: Hesitancy, Anthology, and Repetition in Elizabeth Bishop,”
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Research Symposium, Harvard: April 2008.
“Introduction to the Harvard Brazil Studies Program,” Panel Member: David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, October 2006.
MEDIA COVERAGE
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Raquel Varela and Pedro Almeida Ferreira, “Entrevista a Gabriel de Avilez Rocha.”
Revista Rubra 22 (Lisbon, Spring 2015).
Ronaldo Vainfas, “O Livro a Respeito do Livro que Inspirou Tiradentes.” Review of O
Livro de Tiradentes in Folha de São Paulo (October 10, 2013).
FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Portuguese (native, fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
French (fluent)
Italian (reading proficiency)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS:
American Historical Association
Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Brazilian Studies Association
Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
Spain-North Africa Project
American Society for Environmental History
Association of Caribbean Historians
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