Faculty

Jane Landers
Associate Professor of History

PhD, University of Florida, 1988

History of colonial Latin America; the Atlantic World; the Afro-circum-Caribbean borderlands;  comparative slave systems; women and gender in colonial Latin America

Telephone: 615-322-3403
Email: Jane.landers@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: T, R 10:00 am - 12:00, by appointment
Office: 114 Benson Hall

Personal website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/janelanders    

Link to current cv.

Jane Landers is Associate Professor of History, former Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Science and past director of the Center for Latin American Studies. She is the author of Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge, Mass., 2010) and of Black Society in Spanish Florida (Urbana, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005) which was awarded the Frances B. Simkins Prize for Distinguished First Book in Southern History and was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. She co-authored the college textbook, The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888(Harlan Davidson, 2007) and is the editor of Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida (Gainesville, 2000, 2001) and Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas (London, 1996). She is co-editor of Slaves, Subjects and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque, 2006), and The African American Heritage of Florida (Gainesville, 1995) which won the Rembert Patrick Book Award and a commendation from the American Society for State and Local History. She has published essays in The American Historical Review, Slavery and Abolition, The New West Indian Guide, The Americas, Colonial Latin American Historical Review and a variety of anthologies and edited volumes. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Conference on Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities.   

 

Landers is a member of the Executive Committee of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University and past president of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction. She serves on the editorial boards for several historical journals, including Slavery & Abolition, Colonial Latin American Historical Review, and History Compass. She has also consulted on a variety of archaeological projects, documentary films, web sites, and museum exhibits related to the African Diaspora. With partners at York University, Toronto and the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Landers directs the project “Ecclesiastical Sources for Slave Societies in Brazil, Cuba and the circum-Caribbean,” which is digitizing the oldest black church records in the hemisphere. http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/ecclesiasticalsources. She also directs the FIPSE/CAPES student exchange program entitled “Race, Development, and Social Inequality: Access and Equity in Higher Education in Brazil and the U.S.”

Her current research project, “Black Kingdoms, Black Republics, and Free Black Towns in Colonial Spanish America,” is based on archival research in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic. 

COURSES TAUGHT

Rise of the Iberian Atlantic Empires
Decline of the Iberian Atlantic Empires
Colonial Mexico
Sub-Saharan Africa, 1400-1800
Gender & Women’s History in Colonial Latin America
Latin American Studies Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Graduate Seminars: Gender & Women's History in Colonial Latin America;Comparative Slavery; Atlantic World History
Undergraduate Seminars: Africans in the Americas; African Resistance & Adaptation; Comparative Slavery;
Freshman Writing Seminar: Destruction of the Indies                       

                                          

 

 

 

 

 

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