Rebecca Earle Explained

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Rebecca Earle (born 1964) is a historian, specialising in the history of food and colonial and 19th-century Spanish America. She is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick.[1] [2] [3] She is married to Matt Western, MP for Warwick and Leamington.

Biography

Earle completed her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College in 1986. She then undertook three successive post-graduate degrees at the University of Warwick: MSc in Maths (1987), MA in history (1990), and PhD in history (1994).

Her 2008 book The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference on Latin American History.[4] Earle's 2013 book The Body of the Conquistador. Food, Race, and the Colonial Experience in South America, 1492-1700 won the prize outright in 2013.[5]

Earle has written articles about food history for The Independent,[6] The Conversation, BBC History Magazine, and The Sunday Telegraph.[7]

Earle was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.

She is a member of the Editorial Board for Past & Present.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Rebecca Earle . University of Warwick . 15 October 2021.
  2. Web site: Professor Rebecca Earle FBA . British Academy . 15 October 2021.
  3. Web site: Rebecca Earle Food Historian . 2022-03-13 . en-GB.
  4. Awards, Fellowships & Prizes . Asunción Lavrin . 2009 . The Americas . 65 . 4 . 601–603. 10.1353/tam.0.0111 . 150042240 .
  5. Web site: Bolton-Johnson Prize . Conference on Latin American History . 15 October 2021.
  6. Web site: Rebecca Earle . The Independent . 15 October 2021.
  7. Web site: Rebecca Earle . Bloomsbury . 15 October 2021.
  8. Web site: About us .