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Carla Rahn Phillips

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Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Spanish maritime and naval history
  • Spain 1492-1800
  • History of Europe, 1300-1800
  • exploration, 1492-1800
  • European economy and society 1350-1750

Publications

  • The Treasure of the San José: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2007.
  • (translation into English) - Spain's Men of the Sea: The Daily Life of Crews on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century, by Pablo E. Pérez-Mallaí­na. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
  • Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century, with William D. Phillips, Jr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
  • The Worlds of Christopher Columbus, with William D. Phillips. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
  • "The Life Blood of the Navy: Recruiting Sailors in Eighteenth-Century Spain", The Mariner's Mirror, 87(4).

Research Activities

  • A Concise History of Spain, co-authored with William D. Phillips.: in press as of January 2009 for Cambridge University Press, as part of its series of Concise Histories
  • The Struggle for the South Atlantic in the Late Sixteenth Century: research begun at the Huntington Library, 2005-2006; scheduled for completion in 2008-09

Professional Activities

  • Vice-President for the Professional Division, American Historical Association: responsible for oversight of professional and ethical concerns for the 15,000 member organization , 1996 - 1999
  • President, Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction: Chief executive officer , 1996 - 1998
  • General Secretary, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Chief elected executive officer of this 400 member organization , 1984 - 1988
  • Executive Council: North American Society for Oceanic History , 1995 - 2000

Awards

  • American Historical Association Leo Gershoy Award, 1987
  • American Historical Association Leo Gershoy Award, 1998
  • College of Liberal Arts Scholar of the College, University of Minnesota, 1987
  • Sabbatical Supplement Grant, Bush Foundation, 2000 - 2001
  • Spain in America" book prize, awarded by the Spanish government, 1993
  • Research Award, McKnight Foundation, 1997 - 2000
  • Post-doctoral Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation, 1987 - 1988
  • Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, July, 2003 - December 2003
  • "Spain in America" book prize, awarded by the Spanish government, 1987

Courses Taught

  • Hist 3703 - European Cities, 1300-1800
  • Hist 3704W - Daily Life in Europe: 1300-1800
  • Hist 3715 - Spain, 1450-Present
  • Hist 5617 - Spain in the Early Modern Period: 1492-1814
  • Hist 5900 - Topics in European/Medieval History: Atlantic World
  • Hist 5962 - European Expansion
  • Hist 3626 - France, from Henry IV through Napoleon
  • Hist 4961 - Senior Paper
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Featured Faculty

  • Major Awards for History Profs. Kevin Murphy, Barbara Welke, Donna Gabaccia (2), Kay Reyerson, Elaine Tyler May

    It has been a season for great honors and accomplishments for our faculty. Congratulations to all!

    Donna Gabaccia is one of the recipients of the 2013 University Outstanding Community Service Award
    Donna Gabaccia has been awarded the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective.
    Elaine Tyler May has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013 by The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
    Kevin Murphy is a 2013 recipient of the UofM's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education.
    Kay Reyerson has been awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy.
    Barbara Welke has been named one of the new Distinguished McKnight University Professors.

     April 3rd, 2013

  • 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History to Ruth Karras

    Congratulations to Professor Ruth Karras, who has been named co-winner of the AHA's 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for her book Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

    Given by the American Historical Association and named in memory of Joan Kelly, this prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).

     November 13th, 2012

  • Erika Lee to receive 2012 Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award

    Congratulations to Erika Lee who has been awarded the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award in Humanities, Arts and Sciences for 2012 at the University of Minnesota.

    Erika Lee received the award at the Celebrating University Women Awards Program on October 12, 2012.

    October 30th, 2012

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