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Christopher C. Ebert

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

I am a California native. My undergraduate degree is from San Francisco State University, a school that has much in common with Brooklyn College. I earned my Ph.D. in Latin American History at Columbia University. I have many passions beside history, including cooking, travel, music and early modern European painting. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 2004 (HISTORY) Areas of Expertise: I study and teach Latin American history from an Atlantic perspective. My research so far has focused on colonial Brazil and Portuguese Atlantic expansion, including trade and shipping. I have also studied Dutch trade and Atlantic expansion. I am now doing archival research in Brazil and Europe for a book-length monograph on the social and economic history of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first colonial capital. Books and Publications "European competition and cooperation in the first stage of trans-oceanic globalization: Portuguese Africa, 1500-1600." Journal of African Economic History (pending publication). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 Between Empires: Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Economy, 1550-1630. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008 Ebert, Christopher. "Dutch Trade with Brazil before the Dutch West India Company, 1587-1621." In Riches from Atlantic Commerce, edited by Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven, 49-75. Leiden: Brill, 2003. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2004 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 2008-2009. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008 PSC-CUNY Research Grant for research in Salvador da Bahia, Summer, 2008 (Grants and Fellowships) 2008 2007 Short-Term Research Grant from the Harvard Atlantic Seminar to support research in Salvador da Bahia in spring, 2008. (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 the summer of 2007 and continues intermittently in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, London and Lisbon. 2008 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums 'Slaves and the Provisioning of colonial Salvador da Bahia.' Paper presentation in series of linked panels on urban slavery in colonial Latin America. Latin American Studies Association, Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, June, 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "Early Atlantic trade and its institutional context: insurance markets in Portugal and Amsterdam." Invited talk at Columbia University, March 2008, workshop sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie: 'Economy and the state in the late medieval/early modern Low Countries.' (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "European competition and cooperation in the first stage of trans-oceanic globalization: Portuguese Africa, 1500-1600." European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 'Provisioning Colonial Salvador da Bahia: The Urban Market in an Atlantic Port City.' Invited seminar paper at the Center for Historical Research/Ohio State University, October, 2008. 2008/9 Seminar: Hotspots in Early Modern Globalization. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 Insurance and inter-imperial merchant organization in the early Atlantic economy and its institutional context, Paper given at the Economic and Business Historical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, April, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 Stanford Social Sciences History Workship: Title: "The Unfortunate Voyage of 'de Hoope:' International investment in the Brazilian Trade before the Dutch West India Company," Stanford University, November 2004. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 Other Professional Activities Book Review, Itinerario. Review of: Hal Langfur, The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750-1830. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/itinerario/bookreviews-27.html 2008 Book Review: Historica (Peru). Review of: Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert. A Nation upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007. 2008 Book Review, H-net Reviews. Review of Bernard Moitt, ed. Sugar, Slavery, and Society: Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes, and the United States. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=279111158956151 2006 Book Review, Journal of Economic History. Review of: Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450 1680. Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/cupjechis/v_3A64_3Ay_3A2005_3Ai_3A04_3Ap_3A1159-1160_5F37.htm 2004