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Christopher C. Ebert

Assistant Professor   Department: History   Location: 502s Whitehead Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x1167   Fax: 718-951-4504   Email:

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 Universtiy - 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 doing archival research in Brazil and Europe for a monograph on the social and economic history of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first colonial capital. Books and Publications "European Competition and Cooperation in Early-Modern Globalization: Portuguese Africa, 1500-1600." African Economic History. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 "From Gold to Manioc: Contraband Trade in Brazil During the Golden Age, 1700-1750." Colonial Latin American Review. Forthcoming, March 2011. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 Review of Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of Gunpowder Empires, by Kris Lane. Renaissance Quarterly. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 Between Empires: Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Economy, 1550-1630. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008 "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: Chapter) 2004 Awards, Honors and Fellowships 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 Archival research for a scholarly monograph on the early history of Salvador as the capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, entitled: "Salvador da Bahia: Economic and Social History of an Atlantic Port City, 1549-1763." Research commenced in summer 2007 and continues intermittently in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, London and Lisbon. 2008 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "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 "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 Other Professional Activities 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). 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. 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. 2006 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. 2004