Alexander Wisnoski, III, Ph.D.
Area(s) of Expertise: Latin American History, Early Modern World
Overview
Alex is a historian of colonial Latin America. His current book-length project examines the way marriage and masculinity were negotiated with in 17th century Lima, Peru. He currently serves as the department's Associate Department Head for History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota, MN, 2015
- M.A., History, Appalachian State University, NC, 2009
- B.A., History, Lee University, TN, 2007
Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
“Intimate Knowledge and the Making of Witnesses in Lima’s Seventeenth-Century Divorce Court,” Colonial Latin American Review 29, no. 2 (2020): 239-255.
“‘It is unjust for the law of marriage to be broken by the law of slavery’: Married Slaves and their Masters in Early Colonial Lima,” Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies 35, no. 2 (2014): 234-252. [Spanish Translation: “‘No es justo que la ley de matrimonio se quebrante por la ley de servidumbre’: Esclavos casados y sus amos en Lima, siglos XVIXVII,” Historia y Cultura: Revista del Museo Nacional Arqueología, Antropología e Historia
del Perú 27 (2014).]
“Thou Shall Not Work: Religious Accommodation and Labor Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Sonoran Missions,” The Latin Americanist 53, no. 1 (2009): 211-229.
Other Articles
“From Rivers to Roads: Economic and Environmental Impact of Recent Infrastructure Expansion in North Carolina,” with Jari Eloranta, in Monelta kantilta: Ilkka Nummelalle omistettu juhlakirja (From Many Perspectives: A Festschrift Dedicated to Celebrate Ilkka Nummela), ed. J. Ojala, J. Eloranta, and H. Roiko-Jokela. University of Jyväskylä, 2010.
“Anabaptist Politics: Pacifism and the Separation of Church and State,” The Enlightenment: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts and Sciences 2 (2007): 1-21.
Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Essays
“Review: Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes by Jeremy Ravi Mumford,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2015.
“What I Wish I’d Known” Inside Higher Ed, September 26, 2014.
“Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy,” in Brazil Today: An Encyclopedia of the Republic, ed. John J. Crocitti and Monique Vallance. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
“Review: Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, edited by James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala,” Itinerario 34, no. 2 (2010): 149-150.
Work Experience
Senior Lecturer in World History, Messiah College (2015-16) - Courses Taught: First Year Seminar: Accidental Encounters, Western Civilization II, World Civilizations II, The Emergence of Modernity in the Western Imagination
Visiting Faculty, Miami University Middletown (2013) - Introduction to Latin America (History and Anthropology) and World History II
Instructor, Southern New Hampshire University (2012-14) - Western Civilization to 1500 and World Civilizations (online)
Instructor, University of Minnesota (2011) - Modern Latin America 1825 to the Present