- http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/history/faculty/berquist/
Emily Berquist Soule
California State University Long Beach, History, Faculty Member
- History, Visual Culture, Atlantic World, Indigenous Peoples, Abolition of Slavery, Spanish empire, and 15 moreSpanish Empire, Colonial Latin America, colonial Peru, Catholic Church History, History of Science, Natural History, Cuban History, History of Slavery, Latin American Studies, Atlantic history, Slave Trade, The Age of Revolutions in the Atlantic World, Latin American and Caribbean History, Latin America, Latin American History, and Slaveryedit
- Emily Berquist Soule, Ph.D. specializes in the history of the early modern Spanish Atlantic World, Atlantic slavery, ... moreEmily Berquist Soule, Ph.D. specializes in the history of the early modern Spanish Atlantic World, Atlantic slavery, and the intersection of race and governance in colonial Latin America.
She is presently at work on her second monograph, a 500-year history of the slave trade in the Spanish empire. Titled THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE, the book is under contract with Yale University Press. It book places slavery at the center of the creation and the unraveling of the early modern Spanish Empire, ca. 1400-1900. Work on the project has been funded by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2015-2016) and a Fletcher B. Jones Fellowship from the Huntington Library (2019-2020), among others. Related publications have appeared in Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, Slavery & Abolition, and elsewhere.
A former Fulbright scholar, Berquist Soule completed her doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Her first book, THE BISHOP'S UTOPIA: ENVISIONING IMPROVEMENT IN COLONIAL PERU was published in 2014 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. This intellectual, visual, and cultural history is based on the extraordinary 1,372 watercolor images of people, plants and animals that a Spanish Bishop commissioned from native artisans in Northern Peru in the 1780s.
In 2023, Emily joined the team of Editors at the Taylor & Francis journal, ATLANTIC STUDIES: GLOBAL CURRENTS, where she focuses on submissions about Latin America and Africa.
She is currently Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, and she lives in Los Angeles with her family.
For the 2024-2025 year, Emily will serve her campus community as Interim Director of the Faculty Center at California State University, Long Beach.
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Literary: Roz Foster @ Frances Goldin Literary
TV/Film Writing: John Beach & Kevin Cleary @Gravity Squared Entertainmentedit
Research Interests: Atlantic World, History of Slavery, Abolition of Slavery, The Age of Revolutions in the Atlantic World, Spain (History), and 10 moreBlack Atlantic, Atlantic history, Early modern Spain, Colonial Latin American History, Spanish empire, Atlantic Slave Trade, Spanish American colonial studies, Early Modern Atlantic World (1500-1815), Middle Passage, Atlantic World Slavery, African Diaspora, Slavery and Medicine, Black Women's History, Violence Studies, Caribbean History, and Comparative Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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Research Interests: Slavery, History of Slavery, Abolition of Slavery, American Revolution, Atlantic history, and 8 moreSpain, Early modern Spain, Colonial Latin American History, Spanish empire, Atlantic Slave Trade, Equatorial Guinea, Spanish Colonialism in Africa, and Comparative Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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"Astonishingly original and highly readable. With this ground-breaking study of the monumental work of Bishop Martínez Compañón, Emily Berquist Soule opens up a whole new world of research on the eighteenth century in Peruvian history.... more
"Astonishingly original and highly readable. With this ground-breaking study of the monumental work of Bishop Martínez Compañón, Emily Berquist Soule opens up a whole new world of research on the eighteenth century in Peruvian history. This is cultural, intellectual, and art historical writing at the very highest level." - Gary Urton, Harvard University
"A superb study of a neglected figure of the Spanish-American Catholic Enlightenment whose capacious mind and broad cultural, political, and social reforming agenda here expertly come alive. Berquist Soule casts her net widely, utilizing documentation from over a dozen archives, to reconstruct the bishop's agenda and struggles. Her work marvelously reminds readers that his utopia was disciplined by reality: competing and conflicting agendas of the locals taught the eager bishop the limits of his vision." - Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin
"A deeply researched, beautifully written account of a fascinating man. Bishop Martínez Compañón was a brilliant iconoclast who saw the need for change and did everything he possibly could to promote it. Emily Berquist Soule's impressive archival work and fine pen brought him to life." -- Charles Walker, University of California at Davis
"A superb study of a neglected figure of the Spanish-American Catholic Enlightenment whose capacious mind and broad cultural, political, and social reforming agenda here expertly come alive. Berquist Soule casts her net widely, utilizing documentation from over a dozen archives, to reconstruct the bishop's agenda and struggles. Her work marvelously reminds readers that his utopia was disciplined by reality: competing and conflicting agendas of the locals taught the eager bishop the limits of his vision." - Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin
"A deeply researched, beautifully written account of a fascinating man. Bishop Martínez Compañón was a brilliant iconoclast who saw the need for change and did everything he possibly could to promote it. Emily Berquist Soule's impressive archival work and fine pen brought him to life." -- Charles Walker, University of California at Davis
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IN 2017, OPIOID OVERDOSE OFFICIALLY BECAME the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50. More than two million Americans are addicted to opioids, with costs for their care and treatment exceeding $55 billion yearly. Across... more
IN 2017, OPIOID OVERDOSE OFFICIALLY BECAME
the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50.
More than two million Americans are addicted to opioids,
with costs for their care and treatment exceeding $55 billion
yearly. Across the United States, more than 64,000 people
died from opioid overdose in 2016, according to federal data.
Among the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, and
friends lost to the plague are celebrities: Heath Ledger in 2008,
Michael Jackson in 2009, Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2014,
Prince in 2016, Tom Petty in 2017. One of the earliest—and
most infamous—celebrity overdoses was Marilyn Monroe’s in
1962. Abuse of prescription drugs has only risen since then.
Now anyone can die like Marilyn.
Co-written with Robert Dorfman and Sukumar Desai, M.D.
the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50.
More than two million Americans are addicted to opioids,
with costs for their care and treatment exceeding $55 billion
yearly. Across the United States, more than 64,000 people
died from opioid overdose in 2016, according to federal data.
Among the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, and
friends lost to the plague are celebrities: Heath Ledger in 2008,
Michael Jackson in 2009, Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2014,
Prince in 2016, Tom Petty in 2017. One of the earliest—and
most infamous—celebrity overdoses was Marilyn Monroe’s in
1962. Abuse of prescription drugs has only risen since then.
Now anyone can die like Marilyn.
Co-written with Robert Dorfman and Sukumar Desai, M.D.
"Verso" Blog post accompanying related conference convened at the Huntington Library, June 2023. Co-authored by Gregory O'Malley and Emily Berquist Soule.
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This conference brings together leading and emerging scholars of the Atlantic slave trade to reassess and push forward the history of the trade to the British and Spanish empires, 1520-1886. Since an English privateer's seizure of African... more
This conference brings together leading and emerging scholars of the Atlantic slave trade to reassess and push forward the history of the trade to the British and Spanish empires, 1520-1886. Since an English privateer's seizure of African captives on a Portuguese vessel bound for Spanish America redirected "20 and odd negroes" to British North America in 1619, Spain and Britain forged a complex and shifting relationship over the transAtlantic slave trade. In the last decade, demographic and statistical innovations generated by Slave Voyages: The TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database (and its new companion, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database) have dramatically reinvigorated and altered the study of the Atlantic slave trade, highlighting the centrality of the British and Spanish Atlantic worlds therein. This two-day conference will bring together a diverse group of leading scholars of the slave trade in the Spanish and British Empires, all of whom are based in the United States and the United Kingdom, to provoke further conversation, collaboration, and innovation.