Tatiana Seijas

Contact

• seijast@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 252 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-5141
• Office hours: T R 1:30-3

Titles

• Assistant Professor of History
• Affiliate of the Latin American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Studies Program

Education

• PhD 2008, Yale University
• MA, Yale University
• MA (Medieval Studies), Columbia University
• BA, Columbia University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Colonial Latin America
• Iberian overseas expansion
• Comparative slavery
• Spanish borderlands

Recently taught courses

• HST 197 World History to 1500
• HST 307 Latin American Civilization-Colonial Period
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: Honors
• HST/LAS 437/537 Latin American Environmental History
• HST 780 Graduate Colloquium: Comparative World Slavery

Selected Publications

• “The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish Manila: 1580-1640,” Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, January 2008

Selected Grants and Awards

• Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, Summer 2009

Work in Progress

Dr. Seijas’s current book project is entitled Encountering a Racialized Colonial Order: The Asian Slave Experience in Seventeenth-Century Mexico. She has also begun research for another project, "The Indigenous Peoples of the Royal Road," which aims to reconstruct the history of the route linking Santa Fe with Mexico City.