Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-In-Progress Seminar Series: Pablo Sierra Silva, "Black Pirates of the Caribbean: Between Empire and Ambiguity, 1680-1700"

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Pablo M. Sierra Silva

Associate Professor of History

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013

Silva's research is centered on the experiences of Africans and their descendants in colonial Mexico (New Spain), the Caribbean and Atlantic during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in decentering traditional narratives by highlighting afro-indigenous interactions, interrogating archival practices and emphasizing microhistorical approaches to afrodescendiente history.