Cristina Soriano

Education:

• Ph.D., History, New York University, 2011
• M.A., History, New York University, 2005
• B.A., Anthropology, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1999

Teaching Areas:

• Colonial and Modern Latin America
• Slavery and Resistance Movements
• The Atlantic World, 1500-1800
• The Caribbean

Grants:

• Visiting Research Scholar Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, Spring 2021.
• Villanova University Summer Grant Award. Research project: Imperial Ruptures: Colonial Experimens in Trinidad During the Age of Revolutions. Summer 2020.
• Faculty Research and Development Grant. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Villanova University, June 2017
• Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholarship, University of New Mexico, Spring 2015.
• Postdoctoral Seminar: “Cultural Encounters: Global Perspectives and Local Exchange, 1750-1940.” Some Institute of Advance Studies, National Humanities Center and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Summer 2013 and North Carolina, Summer 2014.
• New World Comparative Studies Fellow, John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowship, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2008.
• Frank Guggenheim Foundation dissertation award. Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY, 2007-2008.

Research:

• New Research Project "Imperial Ruptures: Colonial Experiments in Trinidad During the Age of Revolutions"
• Cultural and Social History
• Colonial Venezuela and Spanish Caribbean
• History of Books, Reading and Information
• 18th c. Popular Rebellions and Social Movements

Publications:

• Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and The Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Diálogos Series, 2018. Winner of the 2019 CLAH Bolton-Johnson Award and the 2020 Fernando Coronil Prize given by LASA, Venezuelan section.
• The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence. Co-edited with Marcela Echeverri. Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming, 2022)
• “The Unruly Caribbean: Reverberations of Saint Domingue’s rebellions in the Caribbean Coast of New Granada and Venezuela” in Wim Klooster The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, Vol.2 The Global French Revolution. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2022)
• “The Impact of the French Revolution in the Caribbean.” In Oxford Bibliographies. New York: Oxford University Press, (Submitted, forthcoming 2022)
• “Public Sphere without a Printing Press: Texts, Reading Networks, and Public Opinion in Venezuela during the Age of Revolutions” in special issue Print Worlds and the Making of a Colonial Public Sphere, Itinerario. Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions, 44:2, 2020, 341-364.
• “Pardos, Free Blacks, and Slave Rebellions in Venezuela during the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. New York: Oxford University Press, October 2019. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.540
• “Avoiding the Fate of Haiti: Negotiating Peace in Late-Colonial in Venezuela” in Michael Goode and John Smolenski (eds.), The Specter of Peace in Histories of Violence. Early American History Series, London: Brill, 2018
• "A True Vassal of the King" Pardo Literacy and Political Identity in Venezuela during the Age of Revolutions" Atlantic Studies, Global Currents, 2017, 14: 3, 275-295
• “Remembering the Slave Rebellion of Coro: Historical Memory and Politics in Venezuela” Ethnohistory, April 2016, 63:2, 327-350.
• "Bibliotecas, Lectores y Saber en Caracas durante el siglo XVIII" (Libraries, Readers, and Knowledge in Late Colonial Caracas) edited volume El Libro en Circulación en la América Colonial, Idalia García and Pedro Rueda (eds.), México, Edit. Quivira, 2014.
• "Comprar libros en una ciudad sin imprenta. Redes de circulación de libros en la Caracas de finales del siglo XVIII." in Pedro Rueda (ed.): El Libro en Circulación en el Mundo Moderno en España y Latinoamérica. Biblioteca Litterae, Edit. Calambur, Madrid, 2012.
• "Revolutionary Voices: The Presence of Visitors, Fugitives and Prisoners from the French Caribbean in Venezuela (1789-1799), Storia e Futuro, Rivista di Storia e Storiografia, No. 30, November 2012.
• "El Libro interpretado: reflexiones en torno a las prácticas de lectura y las 'Culturas del Libro' de Manuel García Pelayo" en "Cuadernos del Centenario," No.12, Reflexiones Antropológicas sobre temas de García Pelayo, Fundación Manuel García Pelayo, Caracas, 2011.
• "La Esclavitud en la Obra de Acosta Saignes: Estudios Subalternos y el problema de construir las historias del otro" en Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, 2010.