Nicole von Germeten
[email protected] 971-777-0259 EDUCATION 2003 History Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, California 1999 History M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, California 1997 Spanish M.A. University of Auckland, New Zealand 1994 History B.A. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts EMPLOYMENT 2011-ongoing Associate Director, History Department Oregon State University, Corvallis 2009-ongoing Associate Professor, History Department Oregon State University 2003–2009 Assistant Professor, History Department Oregon State University 2008–2010 Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2001–2003 Instructor, History Department University of California, Berkeley, California 1999–2000 Curatorial Assistant, Bancroft Library Latin American Collection University of California, Berkeley, California
1997–1999 Teaching Assistant, History Department University of California, Santa Barbara, California 1995–1996 Instructor, Spanish Department University of Auckland, New Zealand BOOKS
Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Race, Sex, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena. University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afromexicans. University Press, Florida, 2006. Reviewed by The Americas, American Historical Review, Itinerario, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The Latin Americanist, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Hispanic American Historical Review and Colonial Latin American Historical Review. Treatise on Slavery: Selections from “De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute” [1627]. Hackett Publishing Company, 2008. The first English translation of one of the most important colonial Latin American works on slavery in the Americas, this edition incorporates extensive annotations to support the text, focusing on early concepts of race, and the relationship between Catholicism and imperialism. PEER-REFEREED ARTICLES
Oxford Bibliographies of the Atlantic World, “Confraternities.” Annotated 80-entry online bibliography. 2014. “Race, Religion, Subjectivity, and Discipline,” Latin American Research Review Review Article, 2011. “Honor, Sex, and Magic in Colonial Spanish America,” History Compass, April, 2011. “Prostitution and the Captain’s Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in EighteenthCentury Cartagena de Indias,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 39, Spring 2010. “A Century of Promoting Saint Peter Claver to African Americans: Claverian Historiography from 1868–1965,” American Catholic Studies, Fall, 2005, 23–38. “Death in Black and White,” Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Summer, 2005, 275–301.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS “Female Sexual Agency and Selling Sex in the Mexican Viceregal Court, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Latin American and Caribbean History, edited by Kenneth Mills. Forthcoming. “Making Sense of Geographies: Regionalism in Latin American History,” Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Essays on Synoptic Methods and Practices, edited by Karen Melvin. Forthcoming, University of New Mexico Press. “Archival Narratives of Clerical Sodomy and Suicide in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena,” Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America, edited by Zeb Tortorici, forthcoming, press TBD. “Piedad barroca en los testamentos de afrodescendientes,” forthcoming in Dimensión Antropológica published by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. “Black Brotherhoods in Mexico City: Adapting Confraternities to Fit a Transforming Community,” The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, edited by Jorge Canizares Esguerra, James Sidbury and Matthew Childs. Penn University Press, 2013. “Who was Captain Cornelio Cornelius? Dying for Honor on the Old Spanish Main.”
Redes de nación y espacios de poder: la comunidad irlandés en España y la América española, 1600–1825, edited by Oscar Recio Morales. Madrid: Albatros Ediciones/Ministerio de Defensa, 2012. “African Women’s Possessions: Inquisition Inventories in Cartagena de Indias,” chapter in Documenting Latin America: Gender and Race, Empire and Nation, eds. Leo Garofalo and Erin O’Conner, Prentice Hall, 2010. “Juan Roque’s Donation of a House to the Zape Confraternity, Mexico City, 1623,” chapter in Afro-Latino Voices, edited by Leo Garofalo and Kathryn J. McKnight, Hackett Press, 2009. “Community Formation and Mulatto Identity in Afromexican Confraternities.” Essay in Black Mexico, edited by Ben Vinson III, University of New Mexico Press, 2009. “Africans in Colonial Latin America,” (co-authored with Javier Villa-Flores) in Religion and Society in Latin American History, edited by Lee Penyak and Walter Petry, Orbis Press, 2009. “Routes to Respectability,” essay in Local Religion in New Spain, edited by Martin Nesvig, University of New Mexico Press, 2006, 215–233. “Afromexican Conflicts over Confraternities and Identity,” translation in Nora Jaffary, Susie Porter and Edward Osowski, Mexican History, Westview, 2010.
“The Problems and Challenges of Research and Writing on Africans and Their Descendants in Colonial Cartagena de Indias,” Working Paper 02, 2007, published online by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies. “Revealing Afromexican Confraternities.” Article submitted to Revista de Estudios Religiosos, a journal published by the Archive of the Archdiocese of México. CONFERENCE PAPERS Panelist, “Confraternities in the Atlantic World,” Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Meeting, 2014. Panelist (“Sexuality and the Unnatural”) and commentator (“Atlantic World Slavery”) on two panels, American Historical Association Annual meeting, 2013. Panelist and panel organizer, Latin American Studies Association, May, 2012. “Sexuality in Colonial Latin America.” Invited Speaker, “Domestic Dependancies,” University of Oregon, Eugene, May, 2012. Presenter and Commentator on two panels at Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, Park City, Utah. April 2012. Presenter on one panel and commentator on two others at the RMCLAS conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April, 2011. Commentator on a panel on Comparative Honor, AHA, Boston, January, 2011. History Dept., Bates College: “Women and Sex in a Tropical Port City.” March, 2010. Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, Boulder: “Sex, Lies and Fantasy in a Colonial Witch Craze.” April, 2010. University of Chicago Center for Race, Politics and Culture, Inventing Race in the Americas conference, “Women, Sex, and Race in a Tropical Port City,” April, 2010. Pacific Coast Branch of AHA, Santa Clara: “Healing and Maleficio in Colonial Cartagena de Indias.” August, 2010. “The Black Atlantic: An Urban Perspective,” April, 2009, University of Texas, Austin. Paper presented: International Blood Ties: Black 'Cofradias de Sangre' in Mexico City and the Network of Penitential Brotherhoods in Atlantic and Pacific Iberian Empires. Latin American Studies Conference, Summer, 2009, Rió de Janeiro, Brazil. Paper presented: “Identity in a Walled City: The Role of Ethnic and National Origins in Colonial Cartagena de Indias.”
“Prostitution and the Captain’s Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in the Cartagena Regiment.” Paper presented at Stanford University’s Center for Latin American Studies, November, 2008. Invited commentator on two panels at conference entitled “The African Presence in Mexico” at Texas A & M University, October, 2008. “Cofradías de Afro-descendientes en la época virreinal,” invited speaker for the Afromexican Studies Group, Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Historia, Mexico City, México, December, 2007. “Blood Ties and Afromexican Baroque Artists,” invited panelist at Chicago’s Mexican Fine Arts Museum, part of their African Presence in México exhibit, November, 2007. Organizer and Presenter, Panel on Honor, Sexuality and Reputation, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, Portland, Oregon, March, 2008. Paper delivered: “Prostitution and the Captain’s Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in the Cartagena Regiment.” Organizer, Panelist and Chair, Panel on New Research on Alonso de Sandoval, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2008. Paper delivered: “Illuminating De instauranda Aethiopum salute, (1647).” Invited presenter at the Fifth Annual Workshop on Constructing Difference in Latin America, Johns Hopkins University, March, 2007. Paper entitled “The Problems and Challenges of Research and Writing on Africans and Their Descendants in Colonial Cartagena de Indias.” “Wealthy African Women’s Possessions and the Cartagena Inquisition,” paper delivered as panelist at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, September, 2007. “Black Blood Brothers: Afromexican Confraternities and Social Mobility,” paper delivered as an invited presenter at Afro-Latin American Research Association Biennial Conference in Veracruz, México, August 2006. “El mal de San Lázaro en Cartagena de Indias entre las dos dinastías europeas, los Habsburgos y los Borbones.” Paper given as panelist at the 52nd Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Seville, July 2006. “Race, Region and Religion in New Spain.” Paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March, 2006. “Blood Brothers: Afromexican Catholic Brotherhoods and Social Mobility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” Paper delivered at the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation, Seattle, February, 2006.
Invited Commentator on Panel entitled “Non-Europeans and the Church,” II Congreso Sulamericano de História, Passo Fundo, Brazil, October, 2005. [Could not attend, comments were read] “Ports, People and Piety: the Case of Saint Peter Claver.” Panelist, Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, Portland, April, 2005. “Race and Religion in Colonial Cartagena de Indias: the Case of Saint Peter Claver.” Panelist, Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Las Vegas, March, 2005. CLAH Teaching Committee Commentator on Teaching about Africans and their Descendants, American Historical Society, Seattle, January 2005. [A panel organized by Henry Gates in preparation for a PBS documentary.] “Piety in Ports, Mines and Capitals: African brotherhoods in New Spain and New Granada” American Historical Association Panelist, Seattle, January, 2005. “The Use and Meaning of the Word mulato in the Context of New Spanish Confraternity Records.” Paper delivered at the New Directions in Afro-Mexico conference, Penn State University, October, 2004. Commentator, Conference on Women and Religion in the African Diaspora, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, April, 2004. “African Identity and Confraternal Life in Seventeenth-century Mexico City.” Paper given at the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies Conference, Santo Domingo, March, 2004. “Blood Brothers: Afromexican Baroque Religiosity.” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Dallas, April, 2003. “Casta Cofradías in New Spain.” American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, January, 2003. ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES Contributor to The Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and Free People of Color in the Americas, Facts on File, edited by Stewart King, 2012. Article titles: Juan Correa Diego Duran Catholic Confraternities and Free People of Color Contributor to The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellions, edited by Junius Rodriguez, Greenwood Press, 2007. Article titles: Quilombo
Bahía slave rebellion of 1836 Mexico City slave conspiracy of 1608 Reformation, Exploration and Empire, Brown Reference Group, London, 2005. Article titles: Jesuits Phillip II Aztec Empire Inca Empire Conquistadors BOOK REVIEWS François Soyer, “Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal…,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, forthcoming. Rachel Sarah O’Toole, “Bound Lives…,” Journal of Latin American Studies: 45 (2013), 364-365. Brian Larkin, “The Very Nature of God: Baroque Catholicism in New Spain, Colonial Latin American Review, 2013. Mariza Carvalho Soares, “People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in EighteenthCentury Rio de Janeiro,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 2013. Judith Carney and Nicholas Rosomoffi, “In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World,” H-Latam List, 2011. Hermann Bennett, “Colonial Blackness,” American Historical Journal, Fall, 2010. Marilyn Fedewa, “María of Agreda, Mystical Lady in Blue,” A Contracorriente, 2010. Ursula Camba Ludlow, “Imaginarios Ambiguos, Realidades Contradictorias: Conductas y Represenataciones de Negros y Mulatos,” 2010. Andrew Redden, “Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750,” Itinerario. María Elena Martínez, “Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religión and Gender in Colonial México,” Bulletin of Latin American Research. Francisco A. Lomeli and Clark A. Colahan, eds., “Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico: Miguel de Quintana’s Life and Writings,” American Catholic Studies. Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, “The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation,” Itinerario.
Bianca Premo and Ondina E. Gonzalez, eds., “Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America,” A Contracorriente, Fall, 2008. Joan Bristol, “Christians, Blasphemers and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century,” Colonial Latin American Historical Review, summer, 2008. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds., “Religion in New Spain,” New Mexico Historical Review, volume 83, Number 4, 2008. Daniel Castro, “Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism,” A Contracorriente, Fall, 2007. Stephanie Kirk, “Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities,” A Contracorriente, Spring, 2007. Linda Curcio-Nagy, “Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity,” Americas, 61.4, April, 2005. Paul Vanderwood, “Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint,” Latin Americanist, Spring, 2005. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela, “Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580–1750,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, January 2001. TRANSLATIONS Collaborated with Barbara Voss, Anthropology, Stanford University on translation project dealing with documents relating to San Francisco Presidio. See webpage at www.stanford.edu/group/presidio/juana.html [last accessed May, 2008]. AWARDS Spring 2010
American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant
2008 to 2010 Visiting Scholar privileges at Stanford University Center for Latin American Studies Summer, 2006 Grant received from the International Congress of Americanists waiving registration fee for their 52nd annual conference in Seville 2004 Post-Doctoral Fellow at Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. Part of Ford Foundation Grant on Women and Religion in the African Diaspora 2001 Fulbright/Garcia Robles Fellowship for México Awards and Grants received from Oregon State University: Spring, 2008
College of Liberal Arts Research Grant (one course down)
Fall, 2006
Faculty Release Time Grant (one course down)
Summer, 2006
Library Travel Award for Research in Spain
Spring, 2006
One-term release time at Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University
Summer, 2005
General Research Fund Travel Grant from Oregon State University for research in Colombia and Spain
Spring, 2005
Stewart Faculty Development Award from Academic Programs, Oregon State University (one course down)
Service to the Profession Article Review, Ethnohistory. Founding board member, Journal of Africana Religions. Outside Reviewer for 3rd year review of history department faculty member, Lawrence University. Editorial consultant for Fronteras de la Historia, an academic journal published by the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, Bogota, Colombia. MS reviewer for Duke University Press, University of Texas Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Georgia Press. Reviewed an 800,000 word Lexican of the Hispanic Baroque, summer 2011. Recent Local Presentations Presentations for the Socratic Club, 2011–2012. Presentations for the Academy of Lifelong Learning, Fall, 2007–2010 Presentation for the Triad Faculty Club, February, 2011
