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Alan Tully, Chair GAR 1.104, Mailcode B7000, Austin, Texas 78712 • 512-471-3261

Jorge CaƱizares-Esguerra

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Professor; Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History

Contact

E-mail:
https://webspace.utexas.edu/jc5543/www/index.html
Phone: 512.475.7694
Office: GAR 2.140
Office Hours: T 12:20-2:30 p.m.
Campus Mail Code: B7000

Biography

Research interests

Early Modern Atlantic History; History of Science and Colonialism; History of Knowledge; Colonial Spanish and British America.

Awards/Honors

Honorable Mention for Puritan Conquistadors. Biannual Murdo MacLeod Book Prize of the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, 2007.
University of Texas Harrington Faculty Fellow, 2004-2005.
Andrew Mellon Research Fellow, Huntington Library, 2003-2004.
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Fellow at Harvard University, 2001-2002.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award at SUNY-Buffalo, 2002.
Book of the Year (2001): The Economist, TLS, The Independent.
John Edwin Fagg Book Prize of the American Historical Association, 2001.
Atlantic History Book Prize of the American Historical Association, 2001.
Best Article in the History of the Human Sciences (1999-2000) by the History of Science Society.
University Outstanding Research Initiative Award at Illinois State University, 1997-1998.
Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Member, 1997-1998.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at John Carter Brown Library, 1997-1998.
Social Science Research Council International Doctoral Research Fellowship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1992-93.
Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1992-93.

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