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Brian Hamm is an historian of colonial Latin America and the early modern Atlantic world, specializing in religious history and the history of migration. Before coming to Íò²©¹ÙÍø in 2019, he was a Frankel Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. He is currently working to finish a book manuscript entitled Strangers and Kinsmen: Portuguese Immigrants and Local Society in the Spanish Circum-Caribbean, 1492-1665. At Íò²©¹ÙÍø, he teaches a variety of courses in Latin American history, as well as a survey course in modern world history. Since 2021, he has served as the coordinator of Íò²©¹ÙÍø’s Global & Cultural Studies Program.

Degrees and Certifications

• PhD, History, University of Florida, 2017
• MA, History, University of Florida, 2012
• BA, History (Summa Cum Laude), Pepperdine University, 2010

Publications

• “The Role of ‘Pestilence’ in the Historical and Political Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas.” In Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID, ed. Lee Trepanier (New York: Routledge, 2022), 104-113
• “The Misadventures of Luis Méndez Chávez and the Origins of the Sephardic Colonization Movement.” Jewish History 35:1-2 (2021): 31-55.
• “Between Acceptance and Exclusion: Spanish Responses to Portuguese Immigrants in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean.” In The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century, eds. Ida Altman and David Wheat (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019), 113-135.
• “Constructing and Contesting Portuguese Difference in Colonial Spanish America, 1500-1650.” Anais de História de Além-Mar 17 (2016): 303-336.

Courses

• FOUN 101: Foundations
• HIST 200: World History since 1500
• HIST 300: The Historian’s Craft
• HIST 350: Modern Latin America
• HIST 355: Colonial Latin America
• HIST 398: Witches, Heretics, and Inquisitions
• HIST 440: Riots, Rebellions, and Revolutions in Latin America
• UCCP 101: Core Texts I
• UCCP 102: Core Texts II