Workshop: Imperial Eyes on Trinidad: Bourbon Reforms and the Peripheral Caribbean 1760-1780

Join us for a workshop with Cristina Soriano hosted by the College of Liberal Arts! This event will take place in a hybrid format, both in-person and virtual. For in-person RSVP, please contact cmeador@austin.utexas.edu. Light lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.

Cristina Soriano is an associate professor of Latin American History in the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her first book "Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela" (University of New Mexico Press, 2018) received the 2019 Bolton-Johnson Award by the Conference of Latin American History and the 2020 Fernando Coronil Award. She recently co-edited the "Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence" (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She is working on a new project on Imperial transition in the Island of Trinidad during the Age of Revolutions. This year, she is a Fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies.