GABRIEL DE AVILEZ ROCHA [email protected] 3250 Chestnut Street MacAlister Hall, Suite 3025 Philadelphia, PA 19104 Office: MacAlister Hall, Room 5024 Phone: (215) 895-2468 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, History Department, Drexel University: September 2016 - present EDUCATION Ph.D., Department of History, New York University, 2016 Dissertation Title: “Empire from the Commons: Making Colonial Archipelagos in the Early Iberian Atlantic” B.A. (magna cum laude), Department of Literature, Harvard College, 2008 Certificate in Latin American Studies, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University PUBLICATIONS Books Empire from the Commons: Making Colonial Archipelagos in the Early Atlantic (in progress) The Voyage of the Red Dragon: Science and Violence in the Atlantic World (in progress) With Kenneth Maxwell, Bruno Carvalho, and John Huffman, O Livro de Tiradentes: Transmissão Atlântica de Idéias Políticas no Século XVIII, (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2013). Articles and Chapters “The Azorean Connection: A Social History of the Gulf Stream” in Ida Altman and David Wheat, eds., The Spanish Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century (forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press) “Plundering the Plunderers: Protection and Confiscation in the Early Atlantic” in Bain Attwood, Adam Clulow, and Lauren Benton, eds., Protection and Empire in World History (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) 1

“Fowl Politics: Fiscal and Legal Arrangements Over Avian Species on Terceira Island (Azores), 1550-1600.” (under review, Early American Studies) “Toward a Political Ecology of Marronage in the Early Colonial Caribbean.” (under review) “George Washington in Minas Gerais.” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (Spring 2007), pp. 78-79. Book Reviews Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas (forthcoming, Law and History Review) Susanna Hecht, The Scramble for the Amazon and the ‘Lost Paradise’ of Euclides da Cunha in Terrae Incognitae 46:1 (April 2014), pp. 53-54. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS Richard S. Dunn Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania: 2015-2016 Warren Dean Fellowship, Department of History, New York University: 2014-2015 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council: Spain, Portugal, United States, 2014 Seminar Participant and Scholar-in-Residence, Huntington-Clark Summer Institute, “The Global Early Modern Caribbean”: Huntington Library, 2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Award: Fulbright Institute of International Education, Instituto Camões: Portugal, 2013-2014 Torch Prize Fellowship, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: 2013-2014 Dissertation Development Grant and Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant, Mellon Mays Foundation: 2012, 2014

RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS McNeil Center for Early American Studies -- Philadelphia, PA Research Associate: 2016 2

History Department, Vanderbilt University -- Nashville, TN Visiting Researcher: Summer 2016 History Department, New York University – New York, NY Program Coordinator for the NYU Atlantic World Workshop: 2014 – 2015 Research Assistant for Lauren Benton: 2013-2015 Research Assistant for Karen Ordahl Kupperman: 2011 – 2012 Centro de História Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Lisbon, Portugal Visiting Researcher, 2013 - 2014 Brazil Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard University – Cambridge, MA Student Advisory Committee, Co-Chair, Spring 2008 Research and Teaching Assistant for Kenneth Maxwell, 2006 – 2007 DRCLAS Intern, 2005 – 2006 Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Visiting Researcher, 2005 TEACHING History Department, Drexel University -- Philadelphia, PA Instructor of Record, “Global Environmental History” and “Ages of Exploration.” Spring 2017. History Department, New York University – New York, NY Instructor of Record, “From Stonehenge to the Internet: The Commons in World History”: Summer 2015. Social Science Department, LaGuardia Community College – Queens, NY Instructor of Record, “Themes in American History to 1865”: Fall 2014 II Term Morse Academic Program, New York University – New York, NY Adjunct Instructor for Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, “Empires and Political Imagination in World History”: Spring 2013 3

Saint Ann’s School – Brooklyn, NY Associate Teacher, 2008 – 2010 INVITED PRESENTATIONS “Montes y Palenques: Toward a Political Ecology of Marronage in the Early Colonial Greater Antilles”: Early Modern Iberian Working Group, University of Pennsylvania Department of Spanish and Portuguese: Philadelphia, November 2016. “The Azorean Connection”: 16th-Century Spanish Caribbean Symposium, University of Florida Gainesville: October 2016. “Floating Bulwarks: Luso-Castilian Patrols of the Middle Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century”: Protection and Empire World History Workshop, Harvard University: April 2016. “From Research to Writing: State of the Dissertation Project”: SSRC-IDRF Fellows 2015 Summer Workshop. Berkeley University: June 2015. “Incursionism in an Atlantic Commons: Plunder and Redistribution in a SixteenthCentury Iberian Expedition to Santa Marta”: Presentation for Philip Morgan’s Atlantic Seminar, Johns Hopkins University: March 2015. “Conquest, Commerce, and the ‘Little Fishes of the Sea’: Portuguese and Castilian Imperial Escalation in an Atlantic Commons”: Presentation at Community Formation in the Early Modern Iberian World, King Juan Carlos Center, New York University: November 2014. “Conquistador as Hunter: Enslavement and Conquest in the Nascent Portuguese Atlantic”: Presentation for Richard Kagan’s Graduate Seminar on Early Modern Spanish Empire, Johns Hopkins University: March 2012. “Nações Imaginadas”: Harvard Department of History and Brazil Studies Workshop Presentation with Kenneth Maxwell, Bruno Carvalho, and John Huffman: April 2007.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Presentations: “‘We fyllyd water and wood and burned a toune of the Negros’: The Red Dragon in the South Atlantic, 1586-7.” Council of Latin American History Panel, American History Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, January 2017. 4

“Azores-Caribbean Connections in the Long Sixteenth Century”: Accepted Paper for 47th Annual Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Historians. Havana, Cuba. June 2016. “‘Pretendyd to the Indyes’: The Red Dragon in the South Atlantic, 1586-7”: Accepted Paper for Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Washington, D.C. and College Park, MD, June 2016. “Convergence and Diffusion: Terceira Island and the Azorean Atlantic in the Long Sixteenth Century”: Accepted Paper for Port Cities in the Early Modern World, 15001800. McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Philadelphia, November 2015. “Institutionalizing Plunder: French, Portuguese, and Spanish Triangulations in the Atlantic Islands and West Africa, 1500-1550”: Accepted Paper for Emerging Histories of the Early Modern French Atlantic. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Williamsburg, VA, October 2015. “Birds’ Eye Views of Terceira: The ‘Arrendamento das Aves’ and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Atlantic World, 1550-1580.” Panel participant in “From Networks to Spaces: Social Identities, Craft Knowledge, and Cross-Cultural Trade”: Accepted Paper for CHAM International Conference. Lisbon, July 2015. “‘In All the Lands of the World, Pastures are [Held in] Common’: Livestock and Empire in the Early Sixteenth-Century Caribbean”: Accepted Paper for Beyond Borders: The Practice of Atlantic, Transnational, and World History Graduate Conference. University of Pittsburgh. April 2015. “Tordesillas Revisited: Conquest and the ‘Little Fishes of the Sea’ in the Ibero-African Atlantic, 1480-1509.” Accepted Paper for “Money, Economics, and Power in the Spanish Empire” Panel at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Johns Hopkins University, March 2015. “Horizons of Conquest: Slaving, Taxation, and Natural Law in the Colonial Atlantic”: New Worlds of Faith: Religion and Law in Historical Perspective: University of Pennsylvania Law School, June 2013. “‘The Law is Born From the Deed’: Iberian Plundering Voyages and the Right of Conquest, 1421-1437.” Summer Academy of Atlantic History, Galway, Ireland: May 2011. Panel Discussant: NYU “Social Ecologies of Colonization”: Experts and Expertise in the Atlantic World, New York University Atlantic Conference, May 2016. 5

“Disputing Imperial Caveats and Gray Areas”: Legends of Empire: Negotiating the Imperial Moral Compass, New York University Atlantic World Conference, February 2012.

SERVICE TO PROFESSION AND DEPARTMENT: Drexel University History Department Co-Curricular Committee Member, 2016-2018 Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction Executive Committee Member, 2016-2019 2018 Conference Program Committee Member Mellon Mays Professional Network, Undergraduate Mentor, 2015-present

CAMPUS AND DEPARTMENTAL TALKS: “A Common Atlantic: Seville and Lisbon in the 1490s”: Presentation for Prospective Students Weekend, New York University History Department: February 2013 “Long Island, New York, and the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century: Archival Leads at NYU”: Presentation for the Sylvester Manor Working Group, Fales Library, New York University: April 2012 “Framing the Right of Conquest in Fifteenth-Century Iberia: Conquaero and Filhamento” Presentation at NYU History Department Graduate Student Conference: April 2011. “This Inscrutable People: Hesitancy, Anthology, and Repetition in Elizabeth Bishop,” Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Research Symposium, Harvard: April 2008. “Introduction to the Harvard Brazil Studies Program,” Panel Member: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, October 2006.

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Raquel Varela and Pedro Almeida Ferreira, “Entrevista a Gabriel de Avilez Rocha.” Revista Rubra 22 (Lisbon, Spring 2015). Ronaldo Vainfas, “O Livro a Respeito do Livro que Inspirou Tiradentes.” Review of O Livro de Tiradentes in Folha de São Paulo (October 10, 2013).

FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS: Portuguese (native, fluent) Spanish (fluent) French (fluent) Italian (reading proficiency)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS: American Historical Association Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Brazilian Studies Association Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction Spain-North Africa Project American Society for Environmental History Association of Caribbean Historians

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