Research Fields—
World History, Iberia / Latin America; Mediterranean;
Medieval /Early Modern European Global Contact;
Interaction and Expansion;
Maritime and Imperial History; Arab and Islamic History;
Historical Ethnobotany
Research Languages—
Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Catalan, German,
and classical Arabic(in descending order of proficiency)
Education—
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1996
M.A. Simon Fraser University, 1989
B.A. University of Western Ontario, 1985
Academic Positions—
Associate Professor, History Department,
Santa Clara University, 2009-present
Assistant Professor, History Department,
Santa Clara University, 2003-09
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication & Culture,
University of Calgary, 1999-2003
Visiting Scholar (by invitation), History Department,
University of California, San Diego, 2002
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program,
Arizona State University, 1995-99
Lecturer (three-year appointment), History Department,
Stanford University, 1992-95
Academic Honors—
University Research Award, Santa Clara University, 2011
Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award,
University of Calgary, 2000
Governor General's Gold Medal,
Canada's Highest Award for Graduate Students, 1989.
Selected Publications—
Books
The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez:
The True Adventures of a Spanish Americanwith 17th
Century Pirates. Austin: University of Texas Press, May, 2012;
corrected paperback edition.
The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez:
The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th
Century Pirates. Austin: University of Texas Press, July, 2011.
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/lopmis.html
Crime in Early B
ourbon Madrid (1700-1808):
An Analysis of the Royal Judicial Court's Casebook.
Lewiston, N.Y. and Lampeter, Wales:
The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
Peer-reviewed Articles, Chapters, Encyclopedia Entries
"The Rise and Global Significance of the First West:
The Medieval Islamic Maghrib."
Journal of World History (accepted; forthcoming in 2013)
By invitation) "Predation's Place within Profit: Pirates and
Capitalists within the
Seventeenth-Century Rise of Lockean Liberalism."
Appeared in a Special Forum of the IJMH,
"Piracy--Just as Man Made It," edited by David Starkey,
International Journal of Maritime History 23 (2011): 241-76.
"Labour Disputes, Ethnic Quarrels, and Early Modern Piracy:
A Mixed Hispano-Anglo-Dutch Squadron and
the Causes of Captain Every's 1694 Mutiny.
" International Journal of Maritime History 22.2 (2010): 73-111.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Early Modern Spain and
Latin America as Part of the Atlantic World."
Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies 33 (2008): 9-22.
(By invitation) "Recent Works on the
Early Modern History of Spanish Muslims
." Catholic Historical Review 94 (2008): 102-107.
"La mentira histórica de un pirata caribeño: el trasfondo histórico de
Los Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690)."
Anuario de estudios americanos 64.2 (2007): 87-104.
Available online at:
http://estudiosamericanos.revistas.csic.es/index.php
/estudiosamericanos/article/view/82/87
"Sweet Food of Knowledge: Botany, Food and
Empire in the Early Modern
Spanish Kingdoms.
" In At the Table: Metaphorical and
Material Cultures in Medieval and Early
Modern Europe,
edited by Juliann Vitullo and Timothy Tomasik, 3-28. Vol. 18.
Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,
edited by Robert Bjork.
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007.
"Encyclopedia articles: Corn; Frankincense and Myrrh; Jute; Linen.
" In Cynthia Northrup, ed., AnEncyclopedia of World Trade:
From Ancient Times to the Present.
Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
"Montezuma's Gardens: The Impact of Aztec
Botany on Mediterranean Culture.
" Chronica: The Journal of the Medieval Association of the Pacific 64 (2005): 27.
"Encyclopedia articles: Ambrose Bierce; Andrew Carnegie;
Sigmund Freud; D.W. Griffith; William Randolph Hearst;
Edgar Lee Masters;
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.; Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.;
and Cornelius Vanderbilt."
In Joseph Buenker, ed., Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era
(Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005).
"Encyclopedia articles: Jeremy Bentham; Ferdinand VII;
Goyahkla
(Geronimo);
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingrès; Thomas Jefferson;
Giuseppe Mazzini;
Cyrus McCormick;
Theodore Roosevelt; Heinrich Schlieman;
Leland Stanford; and
Tataŋka Iyotaŋka (Sitting Bull).
"In Jeffrey A. Bell, ed., Industrialization and Imperialism
1800-1914:
A Biographical Dictionary.Volume 7, Ronald H. Fritze, series editor,
The Great Cultural Eras of the Western World.
(Westport, Connecticut; London, England: Greenwood Press, 2002)
"No Deceit Safe in its Hiding Place:"
The Criminal Trial in Eighteenth-Century Spain.
"Law and History Review, 20.3 (Fall 2002), 449-478.available online
at
http://journals.cambridge.org/action
/displayAbstract?fromPage
=online&aid=8317093&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0738248000008737
Book Reviews—
Books and Articles Outside the Discipline
of History—
Jesús López-Pacheco and Fabio López-Lázaro,
trans. and eds
.. Antología de Spoon River de Edgar Lee Masters
(Madrid: Ediciones B, 1991).
Jesús López Pacheco.Poetic Asylum.
Poems Written in Canada (1968-1990).
Verse translation,Fabio López-Lázaro
(London: Brick Books, 1991).
Ricker, Marvi Ed. Sharing Through Poetry
. A Multicultural Experience.
Trans. Fabio López-Lázaro (Toronto: University of Toronto and the
Ministry of Culture and Recreation, 1980).
Twenty Professional Conference Papers—
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
Developed and Taught—
World/Comparative
World History (1000-1800)
World History (1800-1945)
You Are What You Eat: A World History of Foods, Drugs, and Medicines
World History: From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
World History: Europe and Beyond (1500-1800)
World History: The Modern Age (1789-1992)
A History of Piracy: States, Individuals, and War (1200-2001)
Pirates of the Mediterranean, Pirates of the Caribbean:
Maritime Predation in a Global Context (1300-1800)
The Imperial West: Europe and the World (410-2000)
Contemporary Issues: Technology in World Civilization
Spain and Morocco: Jews, Christians, Muslims (700-1700)
Orientalism and Occidentalism: Inventing the West and the East
Orient and Occident: An Introduction to Islamic History
The Imperial West
A Global History of Capitalism
Iberian/Lat. Am.
Introduction to Latin American Studies
Hispanic Cultures: Europe and the Americas
Identity, Borders, & Cultural Theory: The Southwest, Mexico,
& Europe
Imagining Spain: From Land of Three Faiths to Nation State
Spain: Government and Society (1492-1814)
Early Modern Hispanic Societies (1492-1812)
European/Western
Sex, Family and Crime in Mediterranean Societies
(1300-1800)
Ancient Western Civilization
Medieval and Early Modern Western Civilizations
Modern Western Civilizations
Heritage I: Perspectives on Western Civilization
Heritage II: Integrating Western Civilization
Western Civilization from the Reformation Era to the 20th Century
Humanities in the Western World: Cities and Cultures
The Development of European Civilization
(Medieval to Modern)
Honors Courses
Medieval and Early Modern Western Civilizations
Modern Western Civilizations
Ecological Studies
Global Ecologies and Historical Ethnobotany
Cultural Studies
Orientalism
Structures of Knowledge: Contemporary Social and Cultural Theory
Directed Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory
Professional Service—
Has served on and chaired numerous committees at the
departmental and university level
since 1992 and acted as an submissions reviewer for
Law and History Review,
Prentice Hall Publishers, Palma Journal and Corrientes:
Revista noruega de estudios hispánicos
