Public Writing

 

Essays, Reviews, Commentary and Public Addresses

 

"A DIY Guide to Protecting Academic Freedom". Times Higher Education "Campus", January 19, 2023.

 

 

 

"D. Pedro I, D. Pedro IV. Imperador e Rei. Rupturas e Continuidades na Relação Portugal-Brasil". Público [Lisbon], August 10, 2022

 

 

 

Academic Impressions Podcast on "Rethinking the Role of Service in Promotion and Tenure" (2022)

 

“Can the University Save Itself?”. Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2, 2021.

 

 

Review of Nathan Grawe, The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Change (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). Times Higher Education [London], February 18, 2021: 47.

“Appreciation of The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy by Michael Hanchard (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)”. National Review of Books, November 20, 2020.

 

“Uniting for Self-Preservation”. Chronicle of Higher Education, August 27, 2020.

 

“Bashing Administrators as the University Burns”. Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 2020.

 

Address to First-Year Students. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. September 2019.

 

Commencement Address. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. June 2019

 

Phi Beta Kappa Address. University of Oregon. June 2019.

 

“Following the Sacred Flame”. Review of Jonathan Israel, The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). Times Literary Supplement [London], August 3, 2018: 24.

 

 

 

"Republican Plans to Bludgeon Higher Education with Tax Reform must be Challenged". Times Higher Education [London], December 4, 2017: web version only.

 

“United States of Mind”. Review of Caitlin Fitz, Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2016). Times Literary Supplement [London], January 20, 2017: 12.

 

"Esclavos: La Trata Humana a Través del Atlántico". Historia National Geographic [Barcelona], no. 131 (November 2014): 80-91.

 

 

 

 

"Keepers of the Flame". Review of Richard Stites, The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe (Oxford and New York: Oxford U.P., 2014). Times Literary Supplement [London], May 9, 2014: 9.

 

“Princely Pleasures”. Review of Javier Moro, El Imperio Eres Tú (Barcelona: Planeta, 2011). Times Literary Supplement [London], May 18, 2012: 20.

 

“Ways Out”. Review of Erik Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). Times Literary Supplement [London], July 29, 2011: 22.

 

“Empire of Exceptions: The Making of Modern Brazil”. History Today [London], 61:6 (June 2011): 39-46 [cover feature].

 

 

 

 

“From Pelé to Prosperity”. Review of Larry Rohter, Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Times Literary Supplement [London], June 17, 2011: 23.

 

“Black and Yellow”. Review of J.R. McNeill, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge U.P., 2010). Times Literary Supplement [London], July 30, 2010: 12.

 

"Beyond the Seas". Review of A.R. Disney, A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, 2 vols. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge U.P., 2009). Times Literary Supplement [London], January 8, 2010: 12.

 

"Empire Records". Review of Filipe de Meneses, Salazar: A Political Biography (New York: Enigma Books, 2009). The National [Abu Dhabi], “The Review” section, December 24, 2009: 8.

 

“Visiones de la Ruptura del Imperio Español”. Revista de Occidente [Madrid], no. 341 (October 2009):  7-23.

 

 

 

 

 

“Domestic Product”. Review of Joseph Love and Werner Bauer, eds., Brazil Under Lula: Economy, Politics, and Society under the Worker-President (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). The National [Abu Dhabi], “The Review” section, September 18, 2009: 8.

 

"Scoop Foam, Dip the Snuff ". Review of Marcy Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World (Ithaca and London: Cornell U.P., 2008). Times Literary Supplement [London], March 27, 2009: 25.

 

"Obama the Conservative". The Guardian [London], January 26, 2009: e-format only.

 

"The Relevance of the Humanities". Inside Higher Ed, January 22, 2009: e-format only.

 

"Empire Building". Review of George Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford and New York: Oxford U.P., 2008). The National [Abu Dhabi], “The Review” section, December 12, 2008: 12.

 

"Torrid Theory". Review of Nicolás Wey Gómez, The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 2008). Times Literary Supplement [London], August 29, 2008: 33.

 

"Survivor States". Review of John C. Chasteen, Americanos: The Struggle for Latin American Independence (Oxford and New York: Oxford U.P., 2008). Times Literary Supplement [London], July 30, 2008: 12.

 

"Catalonia, Columbus, and King". Review of Sebastian Balfour and Alejandro Quiroga, The Reinvention of Spain: Nation and Identity Since Democracy (Oxford and New York: Oxford U.P., 2007). Times Literary Supplement [London], April 25, 2008: 27.

 

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