Cornell Research

Expertise

Colonial Latin America, Caribbean history, Atlantic history

Research Interest

Transimperial exchanges; spatial configurations; mobility, migration, and circulation of people, goods, and ideas; histories of capitalism; hemispheric American studies; early modern globalization

Distinction

Latin American Studies Association's Bryce Wood Book Award Honorable Mention
Cornell’s Institute for the Social Sciences Faculty Fellow
John Carter Brown Library Fellow

Selected Publications

Bassi, Ernesto. “Much More than the Half Has Never Been Told: Narrating the Rise of Capitalism from New Granada’s Shores.” The Latin Americanist 61, no. 4 (2017): 529-550.

Bassi, Ernesto. An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

Cornell Research Website Article

Uncovering a Forgotten Region