Tania Bride
Stipendiary Lecturer in Early Modern History
Tania is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Early Modern History. She has recently submitted her doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles, and will shortly receive her PhD.
Tania received an MPhil in Early Modern History from the University of Cambridge, Newnham College, in 2015 and her BA in History from the University of Oxford, Balliol College, in 2013.
Tania’s research explores cultural and biological exchanges across the early modern world that were propelled by European colonisation of the Americas. Her doctoral project, which examines connected religious and ecological change in colonial Mexico, draws on church court records from archives in Spain and Mexico, along with geographical censuses and doctrinal texts in Spanish, Nahuatl, and more Mesoamerican languages. Her methodological approaches include environmental history and ethnohistorical research involving contemporary Indigenous communities of Mexico.
Tania is teaching the First Year papers “European and World History (EWP3) – Renaissance, Recovery and Reform, 1400–1650”, “Approaches to History – Anthropology and History”, and “Foreign Texts: Vicens Vives” this Michaelmas term at St Edmund Hall.
She is also teaching the papers “European and World History (EWF6) – Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700” and “European and World History (EWF7) – Eurasian Empires, 1450–1800”.
Her chapter “(In)Human Nature: Discourses over the distinctions between man and beast in the Indigenous-language pedadogies of New Spain” will be published in the volume Fantastical, Mythical, and Legendary Beasts of the Hispanic World.
Where next?
History
