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Edgardo Perez Morales

Associate Professor of History
Email perezmor@usc.edu

Biography

I am a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean, studying slavery, anti-slavery, legal culture, and race in the Americas during the early modern period through the Age of Revolutions. I specialize on Colombia and its intersections with the Antilles and the Atlantic World. After majoring in History at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellín), I graduated with a Masters degree in Cultural Studies from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito, Ecuador), and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. I teach classes on Colonial Latin America, the Atlanic World, Afro-Latin America, slavery, race, and gender. In my teaching and research, I draw on 20th century social theory, especially the contributions of Norbert Elias and the “process sociology” approach, as well as on critical and literary perspectives on slavery and race by Afro-Caribbean writers like Edouard Glissant and Edwidge Danticat

Education

  • Ph.D. History, University of Michigan, 2013
  • M.A. History, University of Michigan, 2010
  • M.A. Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito-Ecuador), 2007
  • B.A. History, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellín-Colombia), 2005

  • Book

    • Pérez Morales, E. (2018). No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers & the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
    • Pérez Morales, E. (2012). El gran diablo hecho barco. Corsarios, esclavos y revolución en Cartagena y el Gran Caribe. 1791-1817. Bucaramanga: Universidad Industrial de Santander.
    • Pérez Morales, E. (2012). Naturaleza, paisaje y sociedad en la experiencia viajera: misioneros y naturalistas en América Andina durante el siglo XVIII. Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
    • Pérez Morales, E. (2011). La obra de Dios y el trabajo del hombre. Percepción y transformación de la naturaleza en el virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada. Medellin: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

    Journal Article

    • Pérez Morales, E. (2017). Tricks of the Slave Trade: Cuba and the Small-Scale Dynamics of the Spanish Transatlantic Trade in Human Beings. New West Indian Guide. Vol. 91 (1 – 2), pp. 1-29.
    • Pérez Morales, E. (2017). Manumission on the Land: Slaves, Masters, and Magistrates in Eighteenth-Century Mompox (Colombia). Law and History Review. Vol. 35 (2), pp. 511-543.
    • Pérez Morales, E. (2016). Richard Clough Anderson, la Mancomunidad de Kentucky, y el problema de la esclavitud en la causa patriótica hispanoamericana. Co-herencia. Vol. 13 (25), pp. 167-195.