The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies is pleased to sponsor two panels at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. The panels will be back-to-back on Friday, January 3 in the same meeting room. If you will be at the AHA this year, please stop by to hear these great papers. Special thanks to the panel organizers, Suzanne Dunai and Peter Haskin! 

 

Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 1 

Friday, January 3, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM 

Sugar Hill (Sheraton New York, Lower Level) 

Chair: 

Montserrat Miller, Marshall University 

Papers: 

Teaching Western Civilization with Spanish History
Darcy Kern, Southern Connecticut State University 

Injecting 20th-Century Spain into Architecture Appreciation Courses
Brett Tippey, Kent State University 

The Spanish-American War or the War of 1898? Puerto Rico between Independence and Empires
Mark Dries, Southeastern Louisiana University 

“Post Your Politics!” Visualizing Politics and Engaging Students in the Post-Pandemic Classroom
Suzanne Dunai, Southwestern Oklahoma State University 

“We Do Not Forget” Spain: Historical Memory, Foreign Relations, and Human Rights in the American Classroom
Tyler Goldberger, College of William and Mary 

Comment: 

Montserrat Miller, Marshall University 

  

Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2 

Friday, January 3, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM 

Sugar Hill (Sheraton New York, Lower Level) 

Chair: 

Valeria Escauriaza López Fadul, Wesleyan University 

Papers: 

Local Knowledge in the 18th-Century Relaciones Geográficas from New Spain and Peru
Peter Haskin, Yale University 

What’s in a Plant? Botanical Knowledge, Information, and Plant Transfer between Spain and New Spain
Marlis Hinckley, Johns Hopkins University 

After Expulsion: Information about the Moriscos between Spain and North Africa
Kate Randazzo, University of Chicago 

Cartas de Indias, Reconsidered: Oral Communication and Information from the Spanish Indies
Sergio Leos, Harvard University