Christopher Ebert

Assistant Professor

Christopher Ebert is a scholar of colonial Latin American history. He researches the social and economic history of early Brazil, as well as early Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Atlantic expansion. He is currently completing a manuscript that offers an economic study of the transnational commercialization of Brazilian sugar in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, for which he worked in archives in Lisbon, The Hague and Amsterdam. In 2007 he plans to start research in Salvador, Bahia for an urban history of the first Brazilian colonial capital. Ebert received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004 and has taught since at Brooklyn College, where he has offered the Latin American history survey and courses on the Caribbean and early modern Iberian social history. He is the recipient of grants from the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo in Portugal.

"Dutch Trade with Brazil before the Dutch West India Company, 1587-1621," in Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven, eds., Riches from Atlantic Commerce (Leiden: Brill, 2003)