Paul Lokken

Department: History and Social Sciences

Title: Assistant Professor of History

Contact Information: plokken@bryant.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D. in History, University of Florida, 2000
  • M.A. in History, University of Saskatchewan, 1989
  • B.A. in History, with Honors, University of Saskatchewan, 1984

Academic Interests: Colonial Central America, Spanish imperialism, African diaspora, comparative slavery, race and identity.

Teaching:

  • Introduction to Latin American History
  • Gender, Race, and Class in Latin American History
  • The Invention of Nations in Latin America
  • U.S. History to 1877
  • U.S. History 1865-present

Professional Activities:

  • Member of American Historical Association, Latin American Studies Association, Conference on Latin American History, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and New England Council on Latin American Studies.
  • Recipient of the Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere, American Historical Association, 2000.
  • “Mulatos, negros, y el mestizaje salvadoreño durante el siglo XVII,” in Sajid Alfredo Herrera Mena and Ana Margarita Gómez, eds., Razas, poderes y conflictos. Ensayos de historia colonial de las provincias de San Salvador y Sonsonate (FLACSO, forthcoming).
  • “Marriage as Slave Emancipation in Seventeenth-Century Rural Guatemala,” The Americas 58:2 (October 2001): 175-200 (also forthcoming in translation in Anales de la Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala).
  • “Sugar Plantations and African Origins in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1720,” 24th International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, March 27-29, 2003 (scheduled).
  • “Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala, 1670-1720,” 116th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, San Francisco, Jan. 3-6, 2002.