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    Alexander Wisnoski, III, Ph.D.

    Alexander Wisnoski

    Associate Professor

    Phone678-717-2272

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 215, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: Latin American History, Early Modern World

    Overview

    He is currently Graduate Advisor for the Masters in History Program in the Department of History, Anthropology, & Philosophy at the University of North Georgia.

    Education

    • Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota, MN, 2015
    • M.A., History, Appalachian State University, NC, 2009
    • B.A., History, Lee University, TN, 2007

    Publications

    Peer-reviewed Articles

    “Intimate Knowledge and the Making of Witnesses in Lima’s Seventeenth-Century Divorce Court,” Colonial Latin American Review 29, no. 2 (2020): 239-255.

    “‘It is unjust for the law of marriage to be broken by the law of slavery’: Married Slaves and their Masters in Early Colonial Lima,” Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies 35, no. 2 (2014): 234-252. [Spanish Translation: “‘No es justo que la ley de matrimonio se quebrante por la ley de servidumbre’: Esclavos casados y sus amos en Lima, siglos XVIXVII,” Historia y Cultura: Revista del Museo Nacional Arqueología, Antropología e Historia
    del Perú 27 (2014).]  

    “Thou Shall Not Work: Religious Accommodation and Labor Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Sonoran Missions,” The Latin Americanist 53, no. 1 (2009): 211-229.

    Other Articles

    “From Rivers to Roads: Economic and Environmental Impact of Recent Infrastructure Expansion in North Carolina,” with Jari Eloranta, in Monelta kantilta: Ilkka Nummelalle omistettu juhlakirja (From Many Perspectives: A Festschrift Dedicated to Celebrate Ilkka Nummela), ed. J. Ojala, J. Eloranta, and H. Roiko-Jokela. University of Jyväskylä, 2010.

    “Anabaptist Politics: Pacifism and the Separation of Church and State,” The Enlightenment: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts and Sciences 2 (2007): 1-21.

    Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Essays

    “Review: Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes by Jeremy Ravi Mumford,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2015.

    “What I Wish I’d Known” Inside Higher Ed, September 26, 2014. 

    “Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy,” in Brazil Today: An Encyclopedia of the Republic, ed. John J. Crocitti and Monique Vallance. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2011.

    “Review: Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, edited by James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala,” Itinerario 34, no. 2 (2010): 149-150.

    Work Experience

    Senior Lecturer in World History, Messiah College (2015-16) - Courses Taught: First Year Seminar: Accidental Encounters, Western Civilization II, World Civilizations II, The Emergence of Modernity in the Western Imagination

    Visiting Faculty, Miami University Middletown (2013) - Introduction to Latin America (History and Anthropology) and World History II

    Instructor, Southern New Hampshire University (2012-14) - Western Civilization to 1500 and World Civilizations (online)

    Instructor, University of Minnesota (2011) - Modern Latin America 1825 to the Present

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