Charles Beatty Medina, Assistant Professor, received his doctorate from Brown University in 2002 and his bachelor’s degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1995. Specializing in Latin American History, Dr. Beatty Medina teaches courses on the Colonial Period, Republican, and Modern Latin America. His research focuses on the African Diaspora in Latin America with a concentration on maroon societies and African resistance to colonial rule. Dr. Beatty Medina’s dissertation, Rebels and Conquerors: African Slaves, Spanish Authority, and the Domination of Esmeraldas, 1563-1621, examines the attempt by African slaves to establish an autonomous state on the coast of Ecuador in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Contact Information:
Office: Tucker Hall 1115
Phone: 419-530-5060
Email: charles.beattymedina@utoledo.edu
Recent conference papers and appearances:
"Refashioning Resistance: Marronage in Esmeraldas and the Atlantic Dialogue of Incorporation," Cultures in Conflict: Oceanic Encounters, Trade, and Empires, 1500-1700, Toledo, April 14, 2006.
"No Small Matter: Mapping and Imagining Trade in the Audiencia of Quito, 1550-1750," American Historical Association, Philadelphia, January 2006.
"Angola, Arara, and the Making of Colonial African Identities in New Spain, Guatemala, and peru," (Chair and Panel Commentator) American Historical Association, Philadelphia, January 2006.
"'They are not Christians!': Native and African Religious Expression in 16th Century Esmeraldas," (Panelist, Organizer, and Chair) Association for the Study of the World African Diaspora, Rio de Janeiro, October 2005.
"Naturalizing the Enemy History and Histories of Maroon Conquest in 16th Century Esmeraldas," New England Council on Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Bowdoin College, October 2005.
"Choosing between Rivals: The Spanish-African Maroon Competition for Captive Indian Labor in the Region of Esmeraldas during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century," Latin American Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, October 2004.
Recent publications:
"El retrato de los cimarrones de Esmeraldas" in Ecuador~España: historia y perspectiva, edited by María Elena Porras and Pedro Calvo-Sotelo.
“Caught between Rivals: The Spanish-African Maroon Competition for Captive Indian Labor in the Region of Esmeraldas during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries” in The Americas - Volume 63, Number 1, July 2006, pp. 113-136
The First Maroons: The True Description of Esmeraldas, a translation of the Verdadera Descripción de la Provincia de Esmeraldas by Miguel Cabello Balboa, with Introduction and Notes. To be published by the Pennsylvania State University Press (2008).
“They Are Not Christians” Sixteenth-Century Missions, Religious Conversion, and Conquest on the Coast of Esmeraldas” in New Dimensions of the African Diaspora ed. Sherwin Bryant, Rachel O’Toole (Submitted for Publication).
“Alonso de Illescas: Slave in the Old World, Rebel Maroon Leader in Spanish America” in The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic 1500-2000, edited by Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian and Karen Racine (Accepted for Publication).
In addition to entries on “maroon societies”, “maroonage”, “Ecuador,” and “Puerto Rico” in the Encylopedia of African American History, Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas, and the Transatlantic Relations Encycolopedia.
Currently, Dr. Beatty Medina is working on the publication of his dissertation and related articles.
Dr. Beatty Medina's "Websites for Students of Latin American History"
Lanic- http://lanic.utexas.edu/ - Perhaps the most comprehensive site for Latin American Studies in the United States. Produced by the University of Texas at Austin, Lanic provides links to websites by Country, Topic, and Discipline.
Internet Resources for Latin America - http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/ - Provided by New Mexico State University, This excellent Webguide provides links to many current-events publications, portals, and a plethora of related sites from the IMF to the Human Rights Library.
Handbook of Latin American Studies - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/hlashome.html - The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook08.html - Produced by Fordham University, this site contains many primary documents of Colonial, 19th, and 20th century Latin America grouped according to country, period, and topic, a great History website
Research Sites for Latin American History - http://legacy.ncsu.edu/classes/hi300001/bkmarks.htm - Created and maintained by Professor of Latin American History, Dr. Richard Slatta, at North Carolina State University, this site provides a great set of reference links. In addition you can find Dr. Slatta's selection of websites that will take you to some very good essays on Modern Mexican History, Revolution in Latin America, Liberation Theology, Human Rights, the Arts in Latin America, and much more...
H-Latam - http://www.h-net.org/~latam/ - A very good current source guide for academics engaged in Latin American studies. Students can search the Discussion Logs on specific topics.
Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations) - http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/ - Index to doctoral dissertations and master's theses from North America and Europe. Includes or has links to full text. A great place to find out what researchers on Latin America are doing right now.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas.html - This site provides a wide-array of current maps of Latin America. Look in the historical map section for excellent sites with maps of different parts of Latin America in addition to world maps dating back to the sixeenth-century
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas - http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html - Assembled by Dr. Jerome Handler, an excellent site to examine maps, illustrations, and paintings of every historical and social phase of the African diaspora to the Americas.
New Advent - http://www.newadvent.org/ - Contains the Catholic Encyclopedia, and extremely useful source for information on religious life in Europe and Latin America.