Scott K Taylor

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

New Book: Crowley, Spice Roger Crowley, Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World (Yale, 2024).

Roger Crowley's follow-up to "Conquerors" charts the fight between the Portuguese & Spanish for the East Indies emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/n...

New Book: Aram, Anchoring an Empire Bethany Aram, Anchoring an Empire: Gender and Ethnicity in Colonial Panama (Cambridge, 2025).

Bethany Aram explores gender and ethnicity in colonial Panama emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/n...

Padrón, “Transpacific Travels of Mexican Obsidian,” A&A, Autumn 2025 Ricardo Padrón, “The Transpacific Travels of Mexican Obsidian in the Sixteenth Century,” Anthropology and Aesthetics 84.1 (2025).

New work by Ricardo Padrón on material culture and the Spanish Pacific emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/p...

I don't know you but I find you v funny - you spread joy on the internet - take a break, feel better, and I look forward to your return

The refs have to actually call it tho …

AI won't be able to bend and break the rules like humans can, so: never.

Book stack of Opium Slavery on a table with curtains as a backdrop.

It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...

New Book: Sánchez, Infanta Magdalena S. Sánchez, Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela (Yale, 2025).

Magdalena Sánchez's new book about the daughter of Philip II and Duchess of Savoy is out emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/n...

Aronson, “Affirmation of Pro-Christian Ideology through Gastronomy,” JSCS 26.3 2025 Stacey L. Parker Aronson, “A Pig in a Poke? An Affirmation of Pro-Christian Ideology through Gastronomy in an Early Modern Spanish Pliego Suelto,” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 26…

Stacey Parker Aronson looking at the meaning of a pig in a pliego suelto emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/a...

Corteguera & Olivares, “King as Mother,” JWH, Summer 2025 Luis R. Corteguera and Irene Olivares, “King as Mother: Gendered Metaphors of Power in Early Modern Europe,” Journal of Women’s History 37.2 (2025).

Luis Corteguera & Irene Olivares explore the metaphor of king as mother in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/c...

Two Articles in the HAHR, Nov 2025 The Hispanic American Historical Review 105.4 (2025): Raúl Alencar, “Strangers in the Promised Land: Jenízaros, Foreigners, and the Perils of Trade in Colonial Peru, 1750–1764.” Evergto…

Articles about the difficulties of foreign merchants coming into 18th cent Peru and bigamy and slavery in Brazil in the @hahr21.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/t...

HAHR Special Issue: “Infrastructures of Spanish Empire,” Aug 2025 “Infrastructures of Spanish Empire,” Hispanic American Historical Review 105.3 (2025): Mallory E. Matsumoto, “Narrating Boundary Markers in Early Colonial Highland Guatemala.&#822…

Special issue of @hahr21.bsky.social on colonial infrastructure, featuring boundary markers, wheat, letters, and more letters emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...

Succulently disguised!

Articles in the HAHR, May 2025 The Hispanic American Historical Review 102.2 (2025) has two articles for us: Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara, “Unveiling the Virgin: Maya Marianism on the Eve of the 1712 Tzeltal Revolt.” Ja…

Two articles in last May's @hahr21.bsky.social, one on the apparition of the Virgin in the Tzeltal Revolt, another on clandestine gold smelting in New Granada emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/a...

Opinion | Our Deadly Fentanyl Delusion

@dhbuffalo.bsky.social with an op ed in the NYT attacking the administration for using the hoary myth of a pure America attacked by an invasion of drugs brought by non-white outsiders www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

Mercado-Montero, “Indigenous Raiding, Captive Taking, & the Politics of Maritime Violence,” HAHR, Feb 2025 Ernesto Mercado-Montero, “Indigenous Raiding, Captive Taking, and the Politics of Maritime Violence in the Long Sixteenth-Century Lesser Antilles,” Hispanic American Historical Review 1…

Mercado-Montero investigates indigenous Antilles residents taking captives and making space for themselves as the Spanish try to control the Caribbean in @hahr21.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/m...

Guzmán et al, “Architectural Theory & Theology of the Catholic Church Ornamentation,” CHR, Summer 2025 Fernando Guzmán, Josefina Schenke, Rodrigo Moreno, & Paola Corti, “Architectural Theory and Theology of the Catholic Church Ornamentation in Spain and Hispano-America (Sixteenth Century):…

A group of authors posit a new approach to studying the ornamentation of churches in the Spanish Atlantic world emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/g...

De la Puente Luna, “Andean Primordial Titles, Land Repossession, and the Rise of New Communities,” The Americas, Jan 2025 José Carlos de la Puente Luna, “Andean Primordial Titles, Land Repossession, and the Rise of New Communities during the First General Land Inspection (1594-1602),” The Americas, 82.1 (2…

José Carlos de la Puente Luna finds indigenous Andean people using the colonial land inspection for their own purposes emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/d...

Linares, “Seeking Freedom & Honor through Royal Service in 16th-Cent Panama,” Americas Oct 2024 Héctor Linares, “Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama,” The Americas 81.4 (2024).

Another article by @hectorlinares.bsky.social - this one on an escaped enslaved man from Sierra Leone who managed, via a royal petition, to get his former enslaver to pay him a pension in recognition of his military service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/l...

Many such cases

Egg in the hole, MN

Linares, “An Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage,” SCJ, Summer 2025 Héctor Linares, “An Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage: Bárbara de Atahualpa’s Letters to the Spanish Monarch, 1610–1613,” The Sixteenth Century Journa…

@hectorlinares.bsky.social examines petitions from the Inca royal family to the Council of the Indies, examining their attempts to preserve their family's standing in the new colonial order emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/l...

It's up on my blog too emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/c...

I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

Graña Taborelli, “Juan Lozano Machuca and the Construction of the Global Spanish Monarchy,” SCJ, Spring 2025 Mario Graña Taborelli, “Juan Lozano Machuca and the Construction of the Global Spanish Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 56.1 (2025).

Article by @mgrana.bsky.social about navigating patronage and a career through the polycentric Spanish empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/g...

Alder, “Beyond Humanism in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible,” SCJ Fall/Winter 2024 Erik Alder, “Beyond Humanism in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible: Perspectives from Book Culture Studies,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 55.3-4 (2024).

Erik Alder analyses the Complutensian Polyglot as a book in the SCJ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/a...

On the one hand you're right, but as I was thinking about it - he's also right, you don't see those orange/black off-brand taffys anymore and they were really good!!! (when you're 9 yo)

CLAR 34.2 (2025) There are articles for us in the Colonial Latin American Review 34.2 (2025): Yunning Zhang, “Chinos before the Yellow Race: Caterina de San Juan, the Achinada Mystic of New Spain.” José…

Articles for us in CLAS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c...

LFG!