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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.
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]