Lauren MacDonald
Assistant Professor - Latin American History
Office: LA 335
Education
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests
Religion, Colonial Latin America, The Caribbean, and the Atlantic World.
Recent Publications
“The Cemí and the Cross: Hispaniola Indians and the Regular Clergy, 1494-1517,” in The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century, edited by Ida Altman and David Wheat (University of Nebraska, 2019).
Major Grants
Omohundro Institute Short-Term Research Fellowship, Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2019)
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, The John Carter Brown Library (2018)
Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2017)
Fulbright Research Fellowship, Spain, Institute of International Education (2013)
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (2011)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Portuguese, U.S. Department of Education (2010)
Courses Taught
HIST 1101: World History I
HIST 1105: Foundations of Europe
HIST 2251: Latin American History and Culture
HIST 3307: Early North America