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Reader in Latin American Studies
Director of the Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Societies
School of Modern Languages Undergraduate Officer
I arrived at the University of Bristol in 2005 via the University of Edinburgh, University College London, Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla, Spain, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
I am completing a collective biography of the men who fought at the Battle of El Santuario, 17 October 1829.
A research database of over 3,000 foreign adventurers who took part in the Wars of Independence in Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, (the subject of my book Adventuring through Spanish Colonies) is available to consult online at http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/research.html.
I am currently supervising two PhD students: Rupert Medd, working on environmentalism and travel writing in Peru since Independence, and Alastair Wilson, working on British merchant networks in the Philippines in the mid-nineteenth century.
I teach on the following undergraduate units:
HISP 10011 Introduction to the History of Spain and Latin America
HISP 20064 From Frontiers to Football: Nations in Latin America
HISP 30063 Travel and Adventure in Latin America 1800-1960 (the ' El Alto Prize' for the best essay in this unit is sponsored by El Alto Socially Responsible Outdoor Clothing http://www.elalto.co.uk).
HISP 30064 Colombia: Literature, Culture and Society
I coordinate the Masters programme in Latin American History (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/prosppost/malatinamhistory/) and teach on the following postgraduate units:
Critical Questions in Latin American Historiography
The End of the Spanish Empire 1770-1898
Colonial Legacies and the Writer in Latin America
British Imperialism in Latin America
The Contemporary History of Latin America
Simón Bolívar: The Bolivarian Revolution, introduced by Hugo Chávez, editor and translator, New York and London: Verso, 2009.
Informal Empire and Latin America: Culture, Conflict and Capital, editor, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Adventuring through Spanish Colonies: Simón Bolívar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. Published in Spanish by La Carreta Editores, Aventureros, mercenarios y legionarios en la independencia de la Gran Colombia (Medellín, 2010), available at http://www.lacarretaeditores.com/html/novedades/novedades_01.html.
Militares extranjeros en la independencia de Colombia: Nuevas perspectivas, Bogotá: Museo Nacional de Colombia, 2005, edited with Martín Alonso Roa Celis.
Co-editor of special issue of European History Quarterly, 'Europe and Latin America in the 1820s' 41:3 (2011) http://ehq.sagepub.com/content/41/3.toc.
'Soldiers and Strawberries: Questioning Military Masculinity in 1860s Colombia', in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 87:6 (2010).
‘The Life of Alexander Alexander and the Spanish Atlantic,1799-1822’, in Caroline Williams, ed., Crossing Boundaries in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.
‘Enlightened Reform after Independence: Simón Bolívar’s Bolivian Constitution’, in Gabriel Paquette, ed., Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c.1750-1830, Aldershot: Ashgate.
‘Carta de Petra Vergara Santander a su esposo Santiago Fraser: una nueva fuente para la historia cultural colombiana’, in Cuadernos de curaduría (Bogotá) 7 pp.1-10, at http://www.museonacional.gov.co/cuadernos.html.
'Irish Doctors in the Colombian Wars of Independence', in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, 6: 3 (November), at http://www.irlandeses.org/0811.pdf.
'John Aldridge: A Real Irishman', in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, 5: 2 (July), available online at http://www.irlandeses.org/0803.pdf.
‘Gregor MacGregor: Clansman, Colonizer and Conquistador’, in David Lambert and Alan Lester, eds., Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
‘Richard Vowell’s Not-So-Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Adventure in nineteenth-century Latin America’, Journal of Latin American Studies , 38:1 (Feb 2006), pp.1-28.
‘Soldier Heroes in the Wars of Independence in Gran Colombia’, Hispanic Research Journal, 7:1 (2006), pp.41-56.
‘Not forging nations, but foraging for them: uncertain collective identities in the Independence of Gran Colombia’, Nations and Nationalism, 12:2 (2006), pp.223-40.
‘Crusaders for Liberty or Vile Mercenaries? The Irish Legion in Colombia’, Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, (2006), available online at http://www.irlandeses.org/0603.pdf.
‘Inca, Sailor, Soldier, King: Gregor MacGregor and the early nineteenth-century Caribbean’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24:1 (Jan 2005), pp.44-71.
‘Adventurers, Foreign Women and Masculinity in the Colombian Wars of Independence’, Feminist Review, 79 (Jan 2005), pp.36-51.
‘Women and Warfare: Recent Literature and New Research Directions’, Feminist Review, 79 (Jan 2005), pp.173-176.
‘La renovación de una élite: Angostura 1810-1830’, in Luis Navarro, ed., Las élites urbanas en hispanoamérica, Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2005, pp.341-345.
‘Rebellion at Riohacha, 1820: Local and International Networks of Revolution, Cowardice and Masculinity’, in Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, 42 (2005), pp.77-98.
‘Resistance and Liberty in Colombia, 1510-1835: Review Essay’, in Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe/ European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, (Amsterdam) 79 (2005), 153-156.
‘Using Political Ephemera for the History of Hispanic America’, published by the Commonwealth and Latin American Political Archives Project (2005), available online at http://polarch.sas.ac.uk/papers/MB.pdf.
‘Esclavitud, castas y extranjeros en las guerras de la Independencia de Colombia’, Historia y Sociedad, 10 (April 2004), pp.109-125.
‘Scots in South America, 1810-1830’, in Karly Kehoe and Iain McPhail eds., A Panorama of Scottish History: Contemporary Considerations, Glasgow: Glasgow University Press, 2004, pp.124-144.
‘Colombia’, in Natasha Carver, ed., Home Office Country Reports: An Analysis, London: Immigration Advisory Service, 2004, pp.136-168.