Daniel N. Genkins

Vanderbilt University

Department of History
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235

Education

  • PhD in History, Vanderbilt University, projected for 2017
  • Latin American Studies Certificate (in progress)
  • M.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2011
  • Thesis: “Commercial Paradigms in the Revolutionary Atlantic: An Interimperial Comparative Analysis of Three Port Cities during the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries”
  • B.S. in Economics, Duke University, 2009 (high honors)

Grants and Fellowships

  • Fellowship for Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography at the Huntington Library, Summer 2015
  • Travel grant for presentation (ASE), College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University 2013
  • Herbert and Blanche Henry Weaver Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Summer 2013
  • Travel grant for presentation (SECOLAS), College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University 2013
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Center for Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University, Summer 2012
  • Tuition Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2011 – 2013
  • Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2011 – 2013
  • Teaching Assistantship, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2009 – 2011

Publications

  • “‘To Seek New Worlds, for Gold, for Praise, for Glory’: El Dorado and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Guiana,” The Latin Americanist 58.1 (2014): 89 – 104.

Conference Papers

  • “‘River People’: Choctaws and Boatmen in Early Nineteenth-Century Mississippi,” American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE), New Orleans, Louisiana, 2013
  • “‘To Seek New Worlds, for Gold, for Praise, for Glory’: El Dorado and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Guiana,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Panama City, Panama, 2013

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Fall 2009 – Spring 2011
  • Modern European History, Colonial Latin American History, 20th-Century United States Social Movements, Modern East Asian History
  • Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2012 – Fall 2014
  • The U.S. and the Cold War, Western Civilization since 1700, Western Civilization to 1700, Shakespeare’s Histories, The U.S. and the Vietnam War

Classroom Lectures

  • “Pre-Columbian Indigenous Peoples of North America,” for the course United States History I, Nashville State Community College, Spring 2012
  • “An Age of Expansion: Economic Growth and the Discovery of the New World,” for the course Western Civilization to 1700, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2012
  • “The Global Impact of the French Revolution,” for the course Western Civilization since 1700, Vanderbilt University, Spring 2013

Other Professional Service

  • Treasurer, Graduate Historical Association, Vanderbilt University, 2013 – 2014
  • Co-President, Graduate Historical Association, Vanderbilt University, 2012 – 13
  • Treasurer, Graduate Historical Association, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2010 – 11

Academic Awards and Recognition

  • Moseley Award for best graduate student paper, SECOLAS, Panama City, Panama, 2013

Language Skills

  • English (native)
  • Portuguese (reading, writing, basic conversational)
  • French (reading, writing, basic conversational)
  • Spanish (reading, writing, basic conversational)

Professional Memberships

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • American Historical Association (AHA)
  • Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)
  • American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE)