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Lauren MacDonald

Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies - Latin American History

Office: LA 335

208.282.3784

laurenmacdonald@isu.edu

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