Daniela Bleichmar

• Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and USC Visual Studies, 2004 – 2006

Tenure Track Appointments

• Professor, University of Southern California, 2019 –
• Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 2012 – 2018
• Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 2006 – 2012

PostDoctoral Appointments

• Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2004 – 2006

Visiting and Temporary Appointments

• Visitor, History Department, Harvard University, 2008-2009

Other Employment

• Director, USC Society of Fellows, USC, 2020 –
• Founding Director, Levan Institute for the Humanities, USC, 2019 –
• Director, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, University of Southern California, 2015-2016
• Associate Provost for Faculty and Student Initiatives in the Arts and Humanities, University of Southern California, 2015 – 2020
• Acting Director, USC-Getty Program in the History of Collecting and Display, USC, 2007-2008

Summary Statement of Research Interests

– The history of the Spanish Empire and early modern Europe, especially science, visual culture, and material culture

– The history of natural history

– The history of books, readers, print, and prints

– The history of collecting and display

– The history of cultural encounters, colonialism, and imperialism

Research Specialties

Early Modern Europe, especially visual and material culture, global exchanges, science, and print; Spanish Empire/Colonial Latin America; History of Collecting and Display

Book

• Bleichmar, D. (2017). Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin. Yale University Press.

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• Bleichmar, Daniela and Meredith Martin (Ed.). (2016). Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World. Wiley.

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• Bleichmar, D. (2016). El imperio visible. Expediciones botánicas y cultural visual en la ilustración hispánica. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

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• Bleichmar, Daniela and Meredith Martin (Ed.). (2015). Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World (special issue). (Vol. 38, Art History.
• Bleichmar, D. (2012). Visible Empire. Colonial Botany and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press.

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• Bleichmar, Daniela and Peter C. Mancall (Ed.). (2011). Collecting across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

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• Bleichmar, Daniela; DeVos, Paula; Huffine, Kristin; and Sheehan, Kevin (Ed.). (2008). Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires (1500-1800). Stanford University Press.

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Book Chapters

• Bleichmar, D. (2013). “Visible Empire: Scientific Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment”. pp. 529–54. Saul Dubow (ed.), The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Vol. II: Colonial Knowledges. Ashgate..
• Bleichmar, D. (2013). “Imágenes viajeras: La cultura visual y la historia natural ilustrada”. Fermín del Pino (ed.), Entre la ciencia y el arte, entre textos e imágenes. El “Quadro del Perú (1799)”, una joya ilustrada del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Madrid, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina.
• Bleichmar, D. (2013). “Science in the Spanish Americas”. pp. 298–300. in Kenneth R. Mills and Evonne Levy (eds.), Lexikon of the Baroque (University of Texas Press).
• Bleichmar, D. (2011). “Lo exótico en la colección de Lastanosa: el objeto, la mirada y la colección como espacio”. Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa: arte y ciencia en el pp. 131–144. Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses.
• Bleichmar, D. (2011). “Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections”. pp. 15-30. Collecting across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic.
• Bleichmar, D., Mancall, P. C. (2011). Introduction. Collecting Across Cultures in the Early Modern Atl pp. 1-15. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Bleichmar, D. (2010). “The Geography of Observation: Distance and Visibility in Eighteenth-Century Botanical Travel”. Histories of Scientific Observation pp. 373–395. University of Chicago Press: Histories of Scientific Observation.
• Bleichmar, D. (2008). A Visible and Useful Empire: Visual Culture and Colonial Natural History in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World. Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires (1500-1800)/Stanford University Press.
• Bleichmar, D. (2008). “Looking at Exotica in Baroque Collections: The Object, the Viewer, and the Collection as a Space,” in The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer: Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa and the Art of Collecting in Early Modern Spain. pp. 63-77. Middlesex: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Bleichmar, D. (2008). “Training the Naturalist’s Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect Global Visions and Local Blind Spots,” in Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural: Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries. pp. 1-24. Middlesex: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Bleichmar, D. (2007). Atlantic Competitions: Botanical Trajectories in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire. pp. 225-252. Science and Empire in the Atlantic World / Routledge.
• Bleichmar, D. (2007). Training the Naturalist’s Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect Global Visions and Local Blind Spots. pp. p. 166-190. Skilled Visions. Between Apprenticeship and Standards/Bergahn Books.
• Bleichmar, D. (2007). “The Trajectories of Natural Knowledge in the Spanish Empire (ca. 1550–1650)”. Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution / / Mas alla de la Leyenda Negra: España y la Revolucion Cientifica/Soler.
• Bleichmar, D. (2004). Books, Bodies, and Fields: Sixteenth-Century Transatlantic Encounters with New World Materia Medica. pp. p. 83-99. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics/Pennsylvania University Press.

Essay

• Bleichmar, D. (2012). “Latin America: Battleground of Art,” review of “Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World,” exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The New York Review of Books, 59:2 (February 9, 2012).

Encyclopedia Article

• Bleichmar, D. (2011). “The Enlightenment and Its Visual Manifestations in Spanish America”. Ben Vinson (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latin American Studies (New York: Oxford University Press).

Journal Article

• Bleichmar, D. (2021). The Cabinet and the World: Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections. Journal of the History of Collections. pp. 11. available online
• Bleichmar, D. (2019). “Painting the Aztec Past in Early Colonial Mexico: Translation and Knowledge Production in the Codex Mendoza”. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. 72 (4), pp. 1362–1415.
• Bleichmar, D., Schwartz, V. R. (2019). “Visual History: The Past in Pictures”. Representations. (145), pp. 1–31.
• Bleichmar, D. (2015). “The Imperial Visual Archive”. Colonial Latin American Review. Vol. 24 (2), pp. 236–66.
• Bleichmar, D. (2015). “History in Pictures: Translating the Codex Mendoza”. Art History. Vol. 38.4 (Fall), pp. 682–701.
• Bleichmar, D., Martin, M. (2015). “Introduction”. Art History. Vol. 38.4 (Fall), pp. 604–19.
• Bleichmar, D. (2012). “Learning to Look: Visual Expertise across Art and Science in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vol. 46 (1), pp. 85–111.
• Bleichmar, D. (2011). “Seeing Peruvian Nature, Up Close and from Afar”. Res. Vol. 59/60, pp. 82–95.
• Bleichmar, D. (2009). “El imperio visible: la mirada experta y la imagen en las expediciones científicas de la ilustración”. Cuadernos Dieciochistas. Vol. 9
• Bleichmar, D. (2009). “Visible Empire: Scientific Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment”. Postcolonial Studies. Vol. vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 441–466.
• Bleichmar, D. (2007). Exploration in Print: Books and Botanical Travel from Spain to the Americas in the Late Eighteenth Century. Huntington Library Quarterly/Huntington Library. Vol. vol. 70 (no. 1 (March 2007): 129-151)
• Bleichmar, D. (2006). Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science. Colonial Latin American Review/Taylor and Francis. Vol. vol. 15 (no. 1 (June 2006): 81-104)

• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Recipient, Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, held at the Huntington Library, 2018-2019
• Professor of Color Recognition Award, USC Undergraduate Student Government, 2015
• Getty Research Institute, Scholar, 2013-2014
• USC Dornsife Distinguished Faculty Fellow, 2011 – 2013
• Faculty Fellowship, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Fall 2011
• Getty Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009
• USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, General Education Teaching Award, 12/2008
• USC “Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences” Research Grant, 2007 – 2008
• 2007 Jerry Stannard Memorial Award for best article on early modern natural history or materia medica published by a young scholar, for “Books, Bodies, and Fields”, 2007
• Franklin Pease Memorial Prize for best article published in the Colonial Latin American Review in 2005 and 2006, 2007
• Honored by Smithsonian magazine as one of “America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences: 37 under 36.” http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/bleichmar.html, 10/2007
• Short-Term Research Grant, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard University, 06/2007 – 07/2007
• USC-Del Amo Research Grant, 06/2007 – 07/2007
• Award for the best dissertation on Latin American visual culture 2004-2006, Association for Latin American Art, 01/2007

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• CSIC book series: Estudios sobre la ciencia, 2015 –
• Journal18, 2015 –
• Asclepio. Revista de la Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 2014 –
• Brill book series: Cultural Dynamics of Science, 2014 –
• Editorial Doce Calles book series: Pictura Mundi, 2014 –
• Isis, 2014 – 2016

Professional Offices

• Council Member, History of Science Society, 2012 – 2015

Professional Memberships

• Renaissance Society of America, 2012 –
• College Art Association, 2006 –
• American Historical Association, 2004 –
• History of Science Society, 1999 –