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Atlantic History Colloquium: Jose Monge, UCLA

Bunche 6275 & Zoom

José Monge is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. His dissertation, titled Maritime Labor, Candles, and the Architecture of the Enlightenment (1750-1872), focuses on the role that whale-originated illuminants, specifically spermaceti candles and oil, played in the American Enlightenment as an intellectual project and the U.S. as a country. By […]

Melissa Morris “’Pirates Which Infest That Coast’: Illicit Trade and Imperial Rivalry in Seventeenth-Century Western Hispaniola”

Bunche 6275 & Zoom

Dr. Melissa N. Morris is a historian of early America and the Atlantic World whose research is centered on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the cross-cultural interactions that defined colonial encounters, the role of plants in driving European expansion, the dissemination of geographic and agricultural knowledge, and colonial […]

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