When:
Friday, February 20, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jeff Cernucan
(847) 467-2770
Group: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Buffett Institute Faculty & Fellows Colloquium
Atlantic Homelands: Native Sovereignty, Colonialism, and Revolution in the 18th-Century Guajira (New Granada)
Forrest Hylton, History
Forrest Hylton, History, (PhD New York University, 2010) is an historian of Latin America. He has taught at NYU, the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), and Harvard University, and has been a postdoctoral fellow at NYU's Tamiment Library. He won prizes for teaching at NYU and Harvard, and his doctoral dissertation, entitled "Reverberations of Insurgency: Indian Communities, the Federal War of 1899, and the Regeneration of Bolivia," won the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities at NYU. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication and working on a second project, entitled "Atlantic Borderlands: Colonialism, Trade, and Sovereignty in the Guajira and the Darién, 1727-1831."