ERNESTO BASSI Assistant Professor Department of History, Cornell University 323 McGraw Hall, Ithaca, NY

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1 ERNESTO BASSI Assistant Professor Department of History, Cornell University 323 McGraw Hall, Ithaca, NY EDUCATION University of California, Irvine, California Ph.D. in History Fields of emphasis: Latin American History and World History Dissertation title: Between Imperial Projects and National Dreams: Communication Networks, Geopolitical Imagination, and the Role of New Granada in the Configuration of a Greater Caribbean Space, 1780s-1810s Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain MA in History of the Hispanic World Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, London, UK MA in Area Studies (Latin America) Thesis: Race, Class, and Political Allegiances in the Provinces of Cartagena and Santa Marta (Colombia) during the Wars of Independence Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia BA in Economics Minor in History Sep 07 June 2012 Nov 06 May 07 Sep 03 Aug 04 Jan 96 Dec 00 PUBLICATIONS BOOK - Creating Spaces, Envisioning Futures: A Transimperial Greater Caribbean from New Granada s Shores, 1760s-1860s (under contract with Duke University Press). ARTICLES - The Space Between, The Appendix 2:4 (December 2014). - Beyond Compartmentalized Atlantics: A Case for Embracing the Atlantic from Spanish American Shores, History Compass 12:9 (2014), Turning South before Swinging East: Geopolitics and Geopolitical Imagination in the Southwestern Caribbean after the American Revolution, Itinerario 36:3 (December 2012), Colombia, in Stewart King (ed.), Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas (New York: Facts on File, 2012). - La invención de una nación andina: Criollos Ilustrados, conflictos partidistas, y la descaribeñización de la nueva república colombiana, , Revista Huellas (October 2010), La importancia de ser Caribe: reflexiones en torno a un mal chiste, Aguaita. Revista del Observatorio del Caribe Colombiano 21 (August 2010), Raza, clase y lealtades políticas durante las guerras de independencia en las provincias de Cartagena y Santa Marta, in Gustavo Bell (ed.), La región y sus orígenes (Bogota: Nomos, 2007). - (With Alberto Abello) Un Caribe por fuera de la ruta de la plantación, in Alberto Abello (ed.), Un Caribe sin Plantación (San Andrés: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2006). 1

2 BOOK REVIEWS - Nathaniel Millett. The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013 (forthcoming with Itinerario). - Slavery and Antislavery in Spain s Atlantic Empire. Edited by Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013 (forthcoming in August 2015 with Hispanic American Historical Review). - Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin American and the Caribbean. Edited by Alejandra Bronfman and Andrew Grant Wood. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012 (published in Journal of Social History 48:1 (Fall 2014), ). AWARDS - Cornell s Institute for the Social Sciences Faculty Fellow Forum of European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) 2012 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student. - Summer Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, Fellowship from the All-UC Group in Economic History, University of California, Humanities Center Research Grant, University of California, Irvine, Beca de estancia (residency scholarship), Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Seville, Fellowship from the Center in Law, Society, and Culture, University of California, Irvine, Miguel Velez Fellowship, School of Graduate Studies, University of California, Irvine, Regents Tuition and Fee Fellowship, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine, Fundación Carolina s scholarship to undertake MA studies ( COLFUTURO s scholarship to undertake MA studies ( PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS (* by invitation) International Conference of Historical Geographers, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK Paper: The Stories Maps Tell: Cartographic Depictions of Spanish Encounters with Maritime Indians in a Caribbean Borderland. * Rethinking Historical Space/Area in Historical Study, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Paper: Uncovering Other Worlds: Caribbean Sailors as Region-Makers. * Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY Paper: Creating Spaces, Envisioning Futures: Uncovering a Transimperial Greater Caribbean from New Granada s Shores * Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Paper: The Receptacle of All the Adventurers : Simón Bolívar, Alexandre Pétion, and Haiti as International Revolutionary Center. * Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Tucson, AZ Roundtable discussant: Homenaje For Christon Archer and Jaime E. Rodríguez O. * University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Paper: Sailors as Region-Makers: Seafaring and the Configuration of a Transimperial Greater Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions. Jul 15 May 15 2

3 * Entangled Histories of the Early Modern British and Iberian Empires and Their Successor Republics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Paper presented: Enabling, Implementing, Experiencing Entanglement: Empires, Sailors, and Coastal Peoples in a British-Spanish Southern Caribbean Milieu, 1780s- 1810s. * Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY Paper presented: Captains, Sailors, and the Creation of a Transimperial Greater Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions. * Seminario permanente Asociación Mexicana de Estudios del Caribe, Mexico City, Mexico Paper presented: Capitanes, marineros y la creación de un Gran Caribe transimperial durante la Era de las Revoluciones. Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico Paper Presented: Sugar, Cotton, or Nothing at All: New Granada s Failed Bid to Enter the Late-Eighteenth-Century Capitalist World Economy. * Cornell Latino Studies Program, Ithaca, NY Paper Presented: A Transimperial Greater Caribbean: Region-Making, Geopolitical Imagination, and Mental Geographies during a Revolutionary Age. * Rethinking Space in Latin American History, Yale University, New Haven, CT Paper presented: Mobility and the Configuration of Trans- Imperial Geographies: The Region-Making Lives of Greater Caribbean Sailors during the Age of Revolutions. Forum of European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI), New Orleans, LA Paper Presented: Naming the Sea, Inventing the Nation: Geographical Sources, Politician-Geographers, and the Creation of Colombia as a Euro-Atlantic Nation 128 th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. Border-Crossing as Quotidian Experience: Some Thoughts from the Spanish Main. Beyond Sweetness: New Histories of Sugar in the Early Atlantic World, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI Paper Presented: Sugar, Cotton, or Nothing at All: Caribbean Colombia s Failed Efforts to establish an Economic Base during the Age of Revolutions. * Coloquio El Caribe que nos une, Festival del Caribe (Fiesta del Fuego), Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Paper presented: La participación de los puertos neogranadinos en el sistema comercial grancaribeño: relaciones comerciales trans-imperiales y la configuración de un espacio geográfico grancaribeño. * Placing History, Historicizing Geography: a Dialogue between Geography and History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Paper presented: Spatial Configuration as Historical Process: Ships and Sailors in the Construction of a Greater Caribbean Space during the Age of Revolutions. * Institute Colloquium, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA Paper presented: Geography, Geopolitics, and the Geopolitical Imagination: Seeing the Atlantic from South America's Caribbean Coast, 1780s-1810s. 127 th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA Paper presented: Slaves as Commercial Scapegoats: Smuggling Clothes under the Cover of the Slave Trade in Caribbean New Granada. * New York State Latin American History Workshop, Buffalo, NY Paper presented: Cosmopolitan Indians: Miskitos, Cunas, and Wayuu Participation in the Late Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Communication Networks. Nov 14 Oct 14 Aug 14 Jul 14 Mar 14 Mar 14 Feb 14 Jan 14 Oct 13 Jul 13 Mar 13 Feb 13 Jan 13 Oct 12 3

4 Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI), Minneapolis, MN Paper presented: Turning South before Swinging East: Geopolitics and Geopolitical Imagination in the Southwestern Caribbean after the American Revolution Annual Meeting, The Conference on Latin American History, Chicago, IL Paper presented: New Granada s Participation in the Caribbean Commercial System: The Jamaican Connection. Fifth Annual Conference, California World History Association, La Jolla, CA Paper presented: Turning South before Swinging East: Caribbean Efforts to Keep the British Empire Atlantic-Centered in the Aftermath of the American Revolution. * Summer School, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Cartagena, Colombia Paper presented: El Caribe de Simón Bolívar: Jamaica y Haití en la imaginación revolucionaria. Scholars as Public Intellectuals: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable Featuring Claudio Lomnitz, Irvine, CA Roundtable participant. * Estados Unidos, Haití y la independencia de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia Paper presented: Influencia de la revolución de Estados Unidos en la independencia de Colombia: Mecanismos de transmisión Property: A Workshop, Irvine, CA Paper presented: Inventing the Andean Nation: Criollos Ilustrados, Partisan Struggles, and the Decaribbeanization of Colombia, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Charleston, SC Paper presented: Caribbean Encounters: The Guajira Peninsula and its Wayuu Inhabitants during the Age of Revolution, Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI), Durham, NC Paper presented: Caribbean Encounters: The Guajira Peninsula and its Wayuu Inhabitants during the Age of Revolution, Third Annual Conference, California World History Association, Riverside, CA Paper presented: War, Trade, Migration, and the Creation of a Trans-Imperial Caribbean Community: The Case of the Guajira peninsula during the Age of Revolution, * VIII Simposio sobre la Historia de Cartagena: La ciudad en la época de la Independencia, , Cartagena, Colombia Commentary to the paper Las provincias neogranadinas ante la crisis de la monarquía española by Armando Martínez. Moderator of the round table Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, , de Aline Helg. Apr 12 Jan 12 Oct 11 Jul 11 May 11 May 10 Mar 10 Feb 10 Feb 10 Oct 09 Sep 07 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Article referee for Radical History Review, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, and Medical History. Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) Nominating Committee Gran Colombia Studies Committee, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) President Gran Colombia Studies Committee, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Secretary

5 College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Admissions Committee New York State Latin American History Workshop (NYSLAHW) Co-organizer of the Spring 2013 meeting Department of History, University of California, Irvine, CA Panelist in the History department s annual recruitment weekend Department of History, University of California, Irvine, CA Panelist in the History department s annual recruitment weekend Graduate Division, University of California, Irvine, CA International graduate students mentor Humanities Out There (HOT) Program, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine, CA Panelist in the Humanities Out There end-of-year celebration Spring 2013 Mar 2013 Mar 2011 Mar May 2008 TEACHING EXPERIENCE COURSES TAUGHT AT CORNELL Colonial Latin America (survey course) Modern Latin America (survey course) History of the Caribbean: From Conquest to Revolution (survey course) Atlantic Travelers (sophomore seminar) Atlantic Commodities (senior seminar) Entangled Histories of the Americas and the Atlantic (graduate seminar) Graduate History Colloquium PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) California World History Association (CWHA) Red Ocaribe 5