Jeremy Baskes,
Department of History
Specialty:
Latin America
Education:
B.A.
Grinnell
College,
M.A.
University of
Wisconsin,
Ph.D.,
University of
Chicago.
Dr. Baskes is a specialist in the
colonial economic history of Mexico and offers the department's courses on the history
of Latin America from ancient times to the present. He is author of
the book Indians, Merchants and Markets:
A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish Indian Economic Relations
in Late Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico, 1750-1821 (Stanford University
Press, 2000) which examines the economic and social
relations of Spaniards and
indigenous Mexicans in the late eighteenth century. His articles have appeared
in Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Economic History,
and Colonial Latin American Review. Baskes is currently working on
a new book which is an examination of the strategies of Spanish and Mexican
merchants to accommodate risk in transatlantic commerce. Dr. Baskes has been
the recipient of numerous research fellowships including three Fulbright awards
and a National Endowment for the Humanities. He is currently serving as
Director of Ohio Wesleyan’s new Latin American Studies Major.
His publications
include:
Indians, Merchants, and
Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian
Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
"Coerced or Voluntary? The Repartimiento and Market Participation of
Peasants in Late Colonial Oaxaca," Journal
of Latin American Studies, Volume 28, Part 1, February, 1996, 1-28.
“Risky Ventures:
Reconsidering Mexico’s Colonial Trade System.” Colonial Latin American Review, Vol 14,
No. 1, June 2005, 27-54.
“Colonial Institutions and
Cross-Cultural Trade: Repartimiento Credit and Indigenous Production of
Cochineal in Eighteenth Century Oaxaca, Mexico,” Journal of Economic History. Vol. 65,
No. 1 (March 2005), 186-210.
Baskes'
Curriculum Vita