Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Cañizares-Esguerra got his PhD at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He works on early modern Atlantic history, the history of science and colonialism; the history of knowledge; and colonial Spanish and British America. He has also authored several books: How to Write the History of the New World(Stanford 2001); Puritan Conquistadors (Stanford 2006); and Nature, Empire, and Nation(Stanford 2007).