Dr. Tatiana Seijas
Department Profile
Assistant Professor of History; Affiliate of the Latin American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Studies Program
- PhD 2008, Yale University
- MA, Yale University
- MA (Medieval Studies), Columbia University
- BA, Columbia University
- Colonial Latin America
- Iberian overseas expansion
- Comparative slavery
- Spanish borderlands
- HST 197 World History to 1500
- HST/BWS/LAS 243 Origins of the Africa Diaspora: A History of European Slavers
- HST 307 Latin American Civilization-Colonial Period
- HST 400 Senior Capstone: Honors
- HST/LAS 437/537 Latin American Environmental History
- HST 670 Graduate Colloquium: Comparative World Slavery
“The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish Manila: 1580-1640,” Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, January 2008
"Native Vassals: Chinos, Indigenous Identity, and Legal Protection in Early Modern Spain" in Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age (1522-1671), edited by Christina H. Lee, Ashgate, 2012
"Together in Life, Inseparable at Death: The Joint Testament of an Ex-Slave from Manila and his Mulatta Wife" in Dead Giveaways II: Indigenous Testaments from the Americas, edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt, University of Utah Press, forthcoming
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, Summer 2009
Dr. Seijas’s current book project is entitled Asian Slavery in Colonial 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.