Carla Gardina Pestana

Contact

• pestancg@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 271 Upham Hall
• 513-529-5129
• Office hours: M 2:15-3:15, T 1-2, W 11-12

Titles

• W.E. Smith Professor of History
• Affiliate of the Department of Comparative Religion
• Affiliate of the Latin American, Latino/a adn Caribbean Studies Program

Education

• PhD 1987, University of California, Los Angeles
• MA, University of California, Los Angeles
• BA, Loyola Marymount University

Teaching and Research Interests

• 17th and 18th Century Atlantic World
• Religion
• Empire

Recently taught graduate courses

• HST 479/579 Tudor and Stuart England
• HST 710/780 Graduate Colloquium: Religion in the Atlantic World
• HST 793 Historical Methods

Current/recent graduate student research

• Joshua M. Avery, "Subject and Citizen: Loyalty, Memory and Identity in the Monographs of the Reverend Samuel Andrew Peters," 2008
• Zachary A. Carmichael, "Fit Men: New England Tavern Keepers, 1620-1720," 2009
• William Dreger, "Hero, Villain, and Diplomat: An Investigation into the Multiple Identities of Commander John Mason in Colonial Connecticut," 2006
• Kristel Kujawa Hawkins, "Suffering and Early Quaker Identity: Ellis Hookes and the Great Book of Sufferings," 2008. Winner of the 2008 Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award from the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools.
• Melissa N. Morris, "Diversions of Empire: Geographic Representations of the British Atlantic, 1589-1725," in progress
• J. Blake Vaughan, "No Peace in New London: Mather Byles, the Rogerenes, and the Quest for Religious Order in Late Colonial New England," 2009
• Joseph R. Wachtel, "Very Advantageous Beginnings: Jesuit Conversion, Secular Interests, and the Legacy of Port Royal, 1608-1620," 2008

Selected Publications

• Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
• The English Atlantic in an Era of Revolution, 1640-1661, Harvard University Press, 2004
• Inequality in Early America, co-edited with Sharon V. Salinger, University Press of New England, 1999
• Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, 1991

Selected Grants and Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship, "Atlantic Origins of Imperialism," 2009

Work in Progress

Dr. Pestana teaches courses about Early American history, Tudor Stuart history, and the early modern Atlantic World. Her current research focuses on early English Jamaica; she is also increasingly interested in comparative empires in the early modern era.