Kirsten Schultz
Professor
Department of Religion
Seton Hall University
United States of America
Biography
Kirsten Schultz began studying the history of Iberia and Latin America as an undergraduate exchange student at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. My book Tropical Versailles (2001) examined the ways in which the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal transformed understandings of monarchy and empire in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. My current research examines governance in the eighteenth-century Portuguese Empire in America. At Seton Hall, along with Western Civilization and Latin American History I and II, I teach courses on the political and cultural history of Latin America and Iberia.
Research Interest
Governance in the eighteenth-century Portuguese Empire in America.
Publications
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• "Slavery, Empire, and Civilization: a Luso-Brazilian Defense of the Slave Trade in the Age of Revolutions" Slavery and Abolition v.34, n.1: 98-117, March 2013
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• "Learning to obey: education, authority, and governance in the early eighteenth-century Portuguese Empire,†Atlantic Studies, Global Currents v.12, n.4 (2015)
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• "Atlantic Transformations and Brazil's Imperial Independence." In John Tutino, ed. New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016
