Kirsten Schultz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of History

Profile

I began studying the history of Iberia and Latin America as an undergraduate exchange student at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. My doctoral dissertation research concerned the ways in which the Napoleonic invasion of Spain and Portugal transformed understandings of monarchy and empire in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. My current research examines the problem of slavery in the Portuguese empire in the 18th century.

At Seton Hall I have taught World History and the History of Latin America. My teaching interests also include the political, cultural and intellectual history of Latin America and Iberia.

Education

• Ph.D., New York University, 1998
• M.A., New York University, 1993
• B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1988

Publications and Academic Distinctions

• Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (Routledge, 2001)
  “La Independencia de Brasil, la Ciudadanía, y el Problema de la Esclavitud: la Assembléia Constituinte de 1823,” in Jaime E. Rodriguez O., ed., Revolución, Independencia, y las Nuevas Naciones de América (MAPFRE/Tavera, 2005)
  “The Crisis of Empire and the Problem of Slavery: Portugal and Brazil, ca.1700-1820,” in Common Knowledge (Duke University Press), Special Issue: “Imperial Trauma: the Powerlessness of the Powerful” vol.11, no.2 (Spring 2005); translation forthcoming in Acervo (Rio de Janeiro) (2008)
  Latin American Collection Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Summer 2001
  Major Cultures Fellowship, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, 1998-99
  American Association of University Women, Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-98
  Social Science Research Council Fellowship, Spring 1997 (Portugal)Fulbright Scholarship, 1995-96 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  John Carter Brown Library Fellow, Providence, RI, Summer 1994