Event
Annenberg Seminar in History (Virtual)
Miguel Durango, University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Reiss, University of Pennsylvania, Eleanor Webb, University of Pennsylvania
Series: Graduate Research in Progress
Miguel Durango, Ph.D. Student, Department of History
“Sur une terre habitée par des sauvages: Indigenous and Black revolutionaries in Tierra Firme” (see the paper here).
Miguel Durango is a Ph.D. student in history. Before Penn, he received a M.A. in history and a B.A. in anthropology from the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. His dissertation project revolves around the history of the Wayuu people, an indigenous community in present-day Colombia and Venezuela that retained autonomy from European colonizers in the early modern period. He is exploring how this native group engaged in trade and migration networks in the Caribbean and in the Atlantic.
Jennifer W. Reiss, Ph.D. Student, Department of History
““Pity That So Fine a Man Should Have Lost His Leg”: Gouverneur Morris and the Nuances of Physical Disability in Early America” (see the paper here)
Jennifer W. Reiss is a Ph.D. student working on the North Atlantic in the long eighteenth century. Thematically and topically, she is interested in women and gender, early modern medicine and disability, British and early American legal history, popular and material culture, and Loyalism during and after the American Revolution. Geographically, she is particularly interested in Georgian Britain and the North American colonies where British colonization was most influenced by other Northern European occupations: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Canada.
Eleanor Webb, Ph.D. Student, Department of History
“Angelo Del Forte: Texts and Treatments in Cinquecento Venice” (see the paper here).
Eleanor Webb is a Ph.D. student in Penn History. Her research focuses on the thought and culture of early modern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Italy. She focuses especially on the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions and their development in the Italian vernacular through the Renaissance period. In this regard she is interested in the nature and scope of scholarly exchange between various loci of Renaissance learning (universities, academies and courts) and the relationship between Latin and vernacular scholarship more generally. Webb is also interested in the impact of the Catholic Reformation on the development of Italian philosophical thought in light of Catholic censorship.