William D. Phillips, Jr.
Curriculum Vitae, February 2018
WILLIAM D. PHILLIPS, JR.
Professor Emeritus of History
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Residence: 1501 Cascade Trail, San Marcos, TX 78676
U.S. mail address: P.O. Box 2965, Wimberley, TX 78666
e-mail:
EDUCATION
PhD, New YorkUniversity, 1971. History, medieval and early modern Europe.
MA, University of Tennessee, 1966. History.
BA, University of Mississippi, 1964. History.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, 2013---
Professor, University of Minnesota, 1988-2013.
Professor, San Diego State University, 1978-88.
Associate Professor, San Diego State University, 1975-78.
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, 1970-75.
Instructor, Rhode Island College, 1969-70.
Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professor of History, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, fall semester 2014.
Adjunct professor of history, University of Texas, Austin, 2008-11.
Visiting professor of history, CaliforniaStateUniversity, Fullerton, 2005-06.
Visiting professor of history, University of Minnesota, 1985-86.
Visiting professor of history, MacalesterCollege, fall 1985.
Visiting assistant professor of humanities, University of Minnesota, 1972-73.
OTHER SCHOLARLY APPOINTMENTS
Director, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, 2001-08, Spring 2011.
Section editor, Recently Published Articles (American Historical Association), for "Spain and Portugal," 1987-90.
Section reviewer, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte -- Literaturbericht (Tübingen), for "Exploration, Colonization, and Missionary Activities," 1985-94.
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
Corresponding member, Real Academia de la Historia (Spanish Royal Academy of History), Madrid, 2005---.
Invited Research Scholar, Institute for Historical Research, University of Texas, Austin, 2008-09, 2013---.
Chair of “Discoveries of the Americas” group, Global Middle Ages Project (GMAP), 2009-10.
Advisory board member, the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages (SCGMA), 2010-13.
Board of Directors, International Committee for the History of Nautical Science, for 2009-2012.
Member, Founding Editorial Board, Oxford Bibliographies Online (OxfordUniversity Press), 2009-2010.
Board of Directors, Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2007-2011.
Invited Research Scholar, John Carter Brown Library, BrownUniversity, fall 2003.
"Leo Gershoy Award" of the American Historical Association for Spain's Golden Fleece, prize for 1998, announced in 1999.
General Secretary (President), Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1994-96.
"Spain in America Prize," second prize for The Worlds of Christopher Columbus, 1993.
National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowship, 1988-89.
University of Minnesota, Graduate School Grants-in-aid of research, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995; Bush Sabbatical Grant, 1992-1993; Graduate School Faculty Research Fellowship and McKnight Summer Fellowship, 1994, 1998, 2003; Single Quarter Leave, fall 1998 (declined); Sabbatical with supplement, 2000-2001; Scholar of the College (College of Liberal Arts), 2002-2005; Grant for Technology Enhanced Instructional Improvement, 2002; Single Semester Leave, fall 2008 (declined); Sabbatical with supplement, 2008-09.
American Philosophical Society, grant in aid of research, summer 1980.
New YorkUniversity, Founders' Day Award, 1972.
New YorkUniversity, Graduate School of Arts and Science Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 1968-69.
San Diego State University, Sabbaticals, 1977-78, 1984-85; College of Arts and Letters Faculty Summer Stipend, 1981; Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, 1987.
San Diego State University Foundation, grants for summer research, various years.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
A Concise History of Spain. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2010. Hard cover and paperback. (with Carla Rahn Phillips). Second edition 2016. Translations into Portuguese and Turkish appeared. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in process.
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Religious Conflict and Accommodation in the Early Modern World, ed. William D. Phillips, Jr., and Marguerite Ragnow. Minneapolis: Center for Early Modern History, 2011.
Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age: Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, ed. Calvin B. Kendall, Oliver Nicholson, William D. Phillips, Jr., and Marguerite Ragnow. Minneapolis: Center for Early Modern History, 2009.
Testimonies from the Columbus Lawsuits, ed. William D. Phillips, Jr.; trans. William D. Phillips, Jr., and Anne-Marie Wolf; historical introduction by William D. Phillips, Jr.; philological introduction by Mark D. Johnston. Vol. VIII of the Repertorium Columbianum. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000. Pp. xvi + 506.
Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 441. (with Carla Rahn Phillips). "Leo Gershoy Award" of the American Historical Association for 1998 (best book in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history). Listed in Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles, 1998-2002. Spanish translation: El toisón de oro español: Produccion y comercio de lana en las épocas medieval y moderna. Trans. Eva García Ortiz. Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 2005.
The Worlds of Christopher Columbus. Cambridge and New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 322. (with Carla Rahn Phillips). Paperback reprint, 1993. "Spain in America Prize," second place, 1993. Cited by the New York Times Book Review as a notable book of 1992.
Historia de la esclavitud en España. Trans. Leopoldo Fornés Bonavía. Madrid: Editorial Playor, 1990. Pp. 279.
Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 289 (British edition: Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1985); Spanish translation: La esclavitud desde la época romana hasta los inicios del comercio transatlántico. Trans. Elena Pérez Ruiz de Velasco. Madrid: Siglo XXI de España, 1989. Pp. xi + 367.
Marginated Groups in Spanish and Portuguese History, ed. William D. Phillips, Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips. Minneapolis: Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1989. Pp. iv + 240.
Enrique IV and the Crisis of Fifteenth-Century Castile, 1425-1480. Speculum Anniversary Monographs, 3. Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy of America, 1978. Pp. x + 137.
STUDY GUIDES AND COURSE TEXTS
Columbus and the Age of Encounter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Continuing Education and Extension, 1994. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
Before 1492: Christopher Columbus's Formative Years. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1992.
Christopher Columbus and the New World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Extension, 1985. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
ARTICLES AND OTHER SHORT PUBLICATIONS
“Iberia’s Old World Slaving Zones in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods,” in Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, edited by Jeff Fynn-Paul and Damian Alan Pargas (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 94-117.
“Encounters within Europe: Travelers’ Views of Slavery in Renaissance Iberia,” in Encounters Old and New in World History: Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley, edited by Alan Karras and Laura J. Mitchell (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017), 55-66.
“Old World Precedents: Sugar and Slavery in the Mediterranean,” in The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples, edited by Stephan Palmié and Francisco A. Scarano (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 69-79.
“Slavery in the AtlanticIslands and the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic World,” in The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 3: AD 1420—AD 1804, edited by David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 325-47.
“La historia de la esclavitud y la historia medieval de la Península Ibérica,” Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie III: Historia Medieval 23 (2010): 149-65. (appeared in 2011)
“Christopher Columbus,” Oxford Bibliographies Online (OxfordUniversity Press, 2010). Online publication: . Revision 2012.
“The Columbian Quincentenary and Its Scholarly Legacy.” ASPHS Bulletin, 34,2 (2009): 10-20.
“Manumission in Metropolitan Spain and the Canaries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.” In Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World, ed. Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009), 31-50.
“The Frustrated Unity of Atlantic Europe: The Roles of Spain and England.” In Material and Symbolic Circulation between Spain and England, 1554-1604, ed. Anne J. Cruz (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 3-12.
“Isabel of Castile’s Portuguese Connections and the Opening of the Atlantic.” In Queen Isabel I of Castile: Power, Patronage, Persona, ed. Barbara F. Weissberger (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008), 19-28.
“Portuguese and Spaniards in the Age of European Expansion.” In A Companion to Latin American History, ed. Thomas H. Holloway (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), 58-72. (With Carla Rahn Phillips)
“Transatlantic Encounters: Eyewitness Testimony and Spain’s First American Possessions,” Medieval Encounters, 13/1 (2007): 145-57.
“Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia.” In Between the Middle Ages and Modernity: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World, ed. Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 93-104.
“The Use of the Pleitos in United States Historiography from WashingtonIrving to the Present.” In Cristóbal Colón, 1506-2006: Historia y Leyenda, ed. Consuelo Varela(Palos de la Frontera: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía et al., 2006), 375-82.
“Christopher Columbus in United States Historiography: Biography as Projection.”
In Cristóbal Colón, 1506-2006: Historia y Leyenda, ed. Consuelo Varela(Palos de la Frontera: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía et al., 2006), 357-74. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
“Sugar in Iberia.” In Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680, ed. Stuart B. Schwartz (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 27-41.
“Maritime Exploration in the Middle Ages.” In Maritime History as World History, ed. Daniel Finamore (Salem, Mass.: PeabodyEssexMuseum and Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004), 47-61
“Images of Spanish History in the United States.” Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 27, 2-3 (Summer-Winter 2002): 40-51.
"Slavery in Spain, Ancient to Early Modern: A Survey of the Historiography of since 1990." Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 26,3 (Winter-Spring 2001-2002): 10-18. (Review article)
"La otra cara de la moneda: La imagen de España en los Estados Unidos." In El hispanismo norteamericano: Aportaciones, problemas, y perspectivas sobre Historia, Arte, y Literatura españolas (siglos XVI-XVIII), ed. José Manuel Bernardo Ares (Córdoba, Spain: Publicaciones Obra Social y Cultural Cajasur, 2001), pp. 161-76.
"The Testimony of Empire: The Columbian Lawsuits." Terrae Incognitae, 23 (2000): 23-30.
"Merchants of the Fleece: Castilians in Bruges and the Wool Trade." In International Trade in the Low Countries (14th-16th Centuries), ed. Peter Stabel, Bruno Blondé, Anke Greve (Leuven-Apeldoorn: Garant, 2000), 75-87.
"Peste Negra: The Fourteenth-Century Plague Epidemics in Iberia." In On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions, ed. Donald J. Kagay and Theresa M. Vann (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 47-62.
"Voluntary Strangers: European Merchants and Missionaries in Asia during the Late Middle Ages." In The Stranger in Medieval Society, ed. F. R. P. Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 14-26.
"Recent Works on the Exploration and Settlement of Latin America." Latin American Research Review, 32,1 (1997): 265-71. (review article)
"Slavery in Space and Time: Continuities." In Slaves with or without Sugar, ed. Alberto Vieira (Funchal: Atlantic History Study Centre, 1996), 127-42.
"Spain and the Wider World in the Later Middle Ages." In Iberia and the Mediterranean World in the Middle Ages, vol. 2, ed. P. E. Chevedden et al. (Leiden: Brill, 1996), 403-417.
"The Medieval Origins of European Expansion." (The James Ford Bell Lectures, no. 33) (Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1996).
"Continuity and Change in Western Slavery: Ancient to Modern Times," in Slavery and Serfdom: Studies in Legal Bondage, ed. M. L. Bush (London: Longman, 1996), pp. 71-88.
"Columbus and the European Background: The First Voyage," and "The Later Voyages of Columbus," in Maritime History, vol. 1: The Age of Discovery, ed. John Hattendorf (Malabar: Krieger Publishing, 1996), pp. 149-214. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
"Christopher Columbus: Two Films," in Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, ed. Mark C. Carnes et al. (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), pp. 60-65. (with Carla Rahn Phillips).
"Back to the Sources for Christopher Columbus," in Discovery in the Archives of Spain and Portugal: Quincentenary Essays, 1492-1992, ed. Lawrence J. McCrank (New York: Haworth Press, 1993), pp. 137-50. (with Carla Rahn Phillips). Also published simultaneously in Primary Sources and Original Works, 2/1-2 (1993): 137-50.
"Columbus and European Views of the World," The American Neptune, 53.4 (Fall 1993): 260-67.
"Quincentennial Reflections," Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 28,1 (Winter 1993): 7-13. (review article)
"Africa and the AtlanticIslands meet the Garden of Eden: Christopher Columbus's Views of America," Journal of World History, 3/2 (1992): 149-64.
"The Impact of 1992 on Christopher Columbus," Mariner's Mirror, 78/4 (1992): 469-83. (with Carla Rahn Phillips) (review article)
"Christopher Columbus in Portugal: The Years of Preparation," Terrae Incognitae, 24 (1992): 31-41.
"Christopher Columbus and Portugal," CamõesCenter Quarterly, 4/1&2 (Spring and Summer 1992): 2-7. (An abbreviated version of the previous item.)
"Christopher Columbus and United States Historiography: Biography as Projection," The History Teacher, 25/2 (1992): 119-35. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
"Voyage of Destiny," American History Illustrated, 27/4 (September-October 1992): 28-43, 66-70. (An excerpt from The Worlds of Christopher Columbus, with Carla Rahn Phillips).
"Spain in the Fifteenth Century," introductory article in Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century, ed. Kenneth J. Andrien and Rolena Adorno (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991). (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
"The Old World Background of Slavery in the Americas," in Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic Economy, ed. Barbara L. Solow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 43-61.
"The Textbook Columbus: Examining the Myth," Humanities, 12/5 (Sept.-Oct.1991), 27-30. (with Carla Rahn Phillips).
"Testaments in the Spanish World in the Early Modern Period: Sources for Social History," in Historia del Derecho Privado: Trabajos en Homenaje a Ferran Valls i Tabaner, vol. 10, ed. Manuel J. Peláez (Barcelona: Promociones Publicaciones Universitarias, 1989), pp. 2965-80.
"Spain's Northern Shipping Industry in the Sixteenth Century," Journal of European Economic History, 17/2 (Fall 1988): 267-301.
"University Graduates in Castilian Royal Service in the Fifteenth Century," in Estudios en homenaje a Don Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz en sus 90 años (Buenos Aires: Universidad, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1986), vol. 4, pp. 475-90.
"Local Integration and Long-Distance Ties: The Castilian Community in Sixteenth-Century Bruges," Sixteenth Century Journal, 17,1 (Spring 1986): 33-49.
"Sugar Production and Trade in the Mediterranean at the Time of the Crusades," The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange between East and West during the Period of the Crusades, edited by Vladimir P. Goss and Christine V. Bornstein (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1986), pp. 393-406.
"State Service in Fifteenth-Century Castile: A Statistical Study of Royal Appointees," Societas--A Review of Social History, 8/2 (Spring 1978): 115-36.
"The Castilian Fairs in Burgos, 1601-1604," The Journal of European Economic History, (Fall 1977): 413-29. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
"Spanish Wool and Dutch Rebels: The Middelburg Incident of 1574," American Historical Review, 82/2 (April 1977): 312-30. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
"The Development of Spanish Military Aviation," Aerospace Historian, 22/1 (1975): 41-45.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES AND OTHER VERY SHORT PUBLICATIONS
“Columbus, Bartolomé,” in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration, ed. David Buisseret et al. (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2007), 1:199.
“Columbus, Christopher,” in ibid., 1:199-204.
“Pinzón, Martín Alonso, and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, in ibid., 2:156.
“Afrikanische Sklaven auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in der Frühen Neuzeit,” in Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa, Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Klaus J. Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh and Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), 364-66.
“Columbus, Christopher,” in Europe, 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. Jonathan Dewald et al. (New York: Scribner’s/Gale Group, 2004), 2:5-7.
"Columbus," in the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), 2:44-49.
"Slavery," in ibid., 6:38-42.
"Spain: The Spanish Kingdoms," in ibid., 6:52-63.
"Asiento," in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery, ed. Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller (New York: Macmillan, 1998), 97.
"Columbus, Christopher," in ibid., 206.
"MediterraneanBasin," in ibid., 576-78.
"Siete Partidas (The Seven Divisions)," in ibid., 800-801.
"Slave Trade: Medieval Europe," in ibid., 832.
"Spain: Slavery in Spain," in ibid., 870-72.
"Europe: Middle Ages," in A Historical Guide to World Slavery, ed. Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman (New York Oxford University Press, 1998), 197-200.
"Mediterranean," in ibid., 271-74.
"Christopher Columbus," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, ed. Barbara Tenenbaum (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1996), 2:222-225.
"Córdoba," in The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 1:209.
"Europe and the Wider World in 1492," in ibid., 1:249-57.
Short entries in World Book Encyclopedia. "Line of Demarcation" and "Spanish Armada" in 1994; "Alva, Duke of," "Ferdinand V," and "Suárez, Francisco," 1995. (All World Book entries with Carla Rahn Phillips.)
Entries in the section “Columbian Exchanges and Encounters, 1400-1600,” in the American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature, 2 vols., 3d. ed., ed. Mary Beth Norton (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 1:53-55. (with Carla Rahn Phillips)
REVIEWS
Aerospace Historian (1)
American Neptune(1)
American Historical Review (8)
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte—Literaturbericht (32 short reviews)
Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (5)
Choice (10 short reviews)
Hispanic American Historical Review (8)
History of Education Quarterly (1)
History Teacher (3)
Isis (1)
Itinerario (2)
Journal of American History (1)
Journal of European Economic History (1)
Journal of Modern History (1)
Journal of San Diego History (1)
Journal of Social History (1)
Journal of World History (1)
Military Affairs (1)
Modern Greek Studies (3)
Newsletter of the Academy of American Research Historians of Medieval Spain (1)
Renaissance Quarterly (1)
Sixteenth Century Journal (4)
Speculum (7)
(Reviews are listed at the end of the vita.)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Books
Slavery in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
“The Origins of Global Cartography: The Waldseemüller Globe Gores and other Maps in the James Ford Bell Library,” for a volume edited by Francisco Domingues to be published in Portugal. Article completed, volume in progress. (with Marguerite Ragnow)
MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association (Premio del Rey Committee, 1998-2002, chair 2000-2001)
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, now the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Nominating Committee, 1978-80; Program Co-chair for 1982 meeting; Executive Committee, 1982-84, 1992-94; Planning Committee for Madrid meeting, 1983-84; Membership Secretary, 1984-89; Program Chair for 1994 meeting; General Secretary [President], 1994-1996; Local Arrangements Chair for 1997 meeting, Bishko Prize Committee chair, 2008-10.
Academy of American Research Historians on Medieval Spain, 1982-2002, 2005---.
Medieval Academy of America (Life Member)
Sixteenth Century Studies Association (Co-coordinator of sessions on Spain and Spanish America for the 2002 meeting in San Antonio)
Conference on Latin American History (Member, Columbus Quincentennial Committee, 1988-90)
Forum on European Expansion and Global Interactions (founding member, 1994; local arrangements chair, inaugural meeting, 1996).
EDITORIAL AND SCHOLARLY REFEREE
American Historical Review
Speculum
Journal of Urban History
Terrae Incognitae