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Dr. Linda M. Rupert

Contact Information

Email: lmrupert@uncg.edu
Office: 2106 MHRA

Education

Ph.D., History, Duke University, 2006
M.A., History, Duke University, 2002
M.A., Sociology & Historical Studies, New School for Social Research, 1988
B.A., Sociology & Latin American Studies, Brandeis University, 1979

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, UNC Greensboro, 2006-
Instructor, Duke University, 2004, 2006
Instructor, North Carolina State University, 2005

Research Interests

• Early modern Atlantic and Caribbean
• Colonial Americas
• Comparative slavery & slave societies
• Historical geography & cartography
• Comparative maritime history

Current Project

Creolization and Contraband in the Early Modern Caribbean.

Courses Taught

• HIS 207: Globalization, 1400-1750
• HIS 341: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Real Story
• HIS 396: Senior Honors Seminar: The Atlantic World
• HIS 508: The Caribbean: From Conquest to Plantations
• HIS 511C: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
• HIS 710: Atlantic World Colloquium
• HIS 715: The Atlantic Slave Trade
• FMS 151: Map it Out!

Recent Publications

• "Marronage, Manumission, and Maritime Trade in the Early Modern Caribbean." Slavery and Abolition 30: 3 (September 2009): 361-82.
• "Waters of Faith, Currents of Freedom: Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in Inter-imperial Trade." In Nora Jaffary, ed., Race, Religion, and Gender in the Colonization of the Americas (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate; 2007): 151-64.
• "Contraband Trade and the Shaping of Colonial Societies," Itinerario 30:3 (Nov 2006): 35-54
• "Trading Globally, Speaking Locally: Curaçao's Sephardim in the Making of a Caribbean Creole." Jewish Culture and History 7/1-2 (2004): 109-22.
• "Curaçao: �Entrep�t neerland�s o puerto caribe�o?� In Johanna von Grafenstein, ed., El Golfo Caribe y sus puertos, 1600-1850 Volume 1 (Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 2006): 91-126.
• Other publications listed on Vitae.

Awards and Honors

• ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship (2010)
• J. William Fulbright Faculty Fellowship; Leiden University, the Netherlands (2009)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2008)
• Harvard University Research Grant in Atlantic History (2007)
• Catherine Prelinger Award, Coordinating Council for Women in History (2006)
• Other awards listed on Vitae.

Links of Interest

• Dutch Atlantic Connections
• Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI)
• Triangle Early American History Seminar (TEAHS)
• Atlantic World Research Network (AWRN)

Curriculum Vitae

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