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Third Floor, Room 3160
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419.530.2164
jhcase@勛圖厙.Edu
Charles Beatty-Medina, Ph.D.

Professor
Latin American History, Conquest and Colonialism, African Diaspora and Atlantic
UH 5210-H
419.530.5060
charles.beattymedina@utoledo.edu
Charles Beatty-Medina,泭Professor, specializes in the history of Colonial Latin America, the African Diaspora, the Atlantic and circum-Caribbean region. In addition to research at numerous U.S. archives and collections, he has undertaken archival research in Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, and Mexico. His publications examine the African maroon societies of colonial Ecuador and African slave resistance.
Publications
- Review, Bryant, Sherwin.泭Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito,泭Ethnohistory, 2017.
- Review, Diouf, Sylviane.泭Slaverys Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons, EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE, 2017.
- Alonso de Illescas and Francisco de Arobe for泭Oxford泭Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, 2015.
- Maroons Societies in Latin America (Oxford Press, Online Bibliographies) 2014.
- Contested Territories: Native Americans & Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850, Editor and Contributor, Michigan State University Press. 2012.
- Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Esmeraldas. Book Chapter in泭Africans to Colonial Spanish America, eds. Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel S. OToole, Ben Vinson III., University of Illinois Press, 2012.
- Fray Alonso de Espinosas Report on Pacifying the Fugitive Slaves of the Pacific Coast. Book chapter in泭Documenting Latin America: Gender and Race, Empire and Nation, eds. Leo Garofalo and Erin OConner. Prentice Hall Publishers, 2010.
- Alonso de Illescas: African,泭Ladino, and Maroon Leader in 16th泭century colonial Ecuador. Book Chapter in泭The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic 1500-2000, eds. Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian and Karen Racine. Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.
- Letter from Don Alonso de Illescas from the province of Esmeraldas. Book chapter in泭Afro-Latin Voices, eds. Kathryn McKnight and Leo Garofalo. Hackett Publishing Company, 2009.
- Review, Graubart, Karen.泭With Our Labor and our Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru,泭Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas泭6, no. 4 (Winter 2009) 121-123.
- "Caught between Rivals: The Spanish-African Maroon Competition for Captive Labor in the Region of Esmeraldas During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries, "泭The Americas泭63, no. 1 (2006): 113-36.
- "El retrato de los cimarrones de Esmeraldas, in泭Ecuador~Espa簽a: historia y perspectiva, edited by Mar穩a Elena Porras and Pedro Calvo-Sotelo, 18-21: Embajada de Espa簽a en el Ecuador, Archivo Hist籀rico del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Ecuador, 2001