Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez

Realmente muy emocionado de ver en la portada del
@hahr21.bsky.social uno de los grabados que analizo en mi articulo "Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean" no se pierdan el volumen. ❤️❤️❤️

You can access the piece directly here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

#PirateHistory. Thrilled to share that a chapter from my research, on the relationships between Brazil's coastal communities and pirates, was published in December. The whole book is a fascinating read! doi.org/10.4000/15eca

En estos momentos quizá sea necesario decir lo obvio sobre Venezuela: 1) Ninguna dictadura es aceptable. 2) Ningún bombardeo es justificable. 3) Condena absoluta al bombardeo de EEUU sobre Caracas. 4) Libertad inmediata para todas y todos los presos políticos. #Venezuela

2025 Articles You May Have Missed As 2025 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on the incredible scholarship published in our journals over the past year. To celebrate, we’ve curated a selection of thirteen diverse articles you might…

My article on the cacicas Isabel and Orocomay, published in the @hahr21.bsky.social, was included among the 13 articles selected for @dukepress.bsky.social 2025 Articles You May Have Missed.
It is available open access through Jan 31, 2026.
🔗 dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/2...

Capitalism: A Global History @svenbeckert.bsky.social arrived almost on the last day of the year, bigger than I expected 😅📚 A fitting way to close one year and begin the next. 🤓

Edição imensa concluída. Várias dimensões de história social do trabalho, diferentes gerações de historiadores, uma seção enorme de resenhas. O volume revela a vitalidade do campo com contribuições originais de vários autores do exterior e do Brasil.

#MundosdoTrabalho Já está no ar vol. 17 (2025): 62 contribuições, com dossiês temáticos, artigos livres, debates, entrevista e resenhas. Destaque para a entrevista com George Andrews e o debate sobre Black Reconstruction, de W. E. B. Du Bois. 👉🏾 periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mu...

"It’s Not Just One Place I’ve Fallen in Love With": A Participatory Place-Based Approach to Mapping Heritage | Journal of Maritime Archaeology Traditional Cultural Places (TCPs) are historic properties recognized for their cultural significance. Cultural value is determined by living communities and is not dependent on the presence of human-made or human-modified site features. Although eligible for consideration in federal decision-making, TCPs are often absent from state and federal heritage inventories due to challenges in their identification. Given the relationship between people and place, community-based inventory efforts offer opportunities to both document this heritage and support longer-term relationship building. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, we held participatory place-based mapping workshops in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to document TCPs and maritime archaeological sites. While ultimately successful, the workshops and our shared experiences were shaped by political tensions in the U.S. Pacific Island territories. This paper shares preliminary results on the use of participatory geographic information systems to inventory heritage, including TCPs. Our experiences, and those of our collaborators, are further contextualized within broader themes of Pacific militarization and critical minerals mining.

#OpenAccess #SundayRead: Roth et al. (2025) a share participatory place-based approach to mapping Traditional Cultural Places (TCPs) and maritime archaeological sites in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

#Skystorians If you're looking to teach Indigenous political agency & female leadership in the Early Caribbean beyond the “extinction” narrative, check out my new piece in @hahr21.bsky.social on Cacicas Isabel and Orocomay. 👉🏿 read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article... #EarlyModern #Syllabus #GentedeMar

Join us on a day full of new data of the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database, presentations from researchers that are related to ESTA or the field of Indian Ocean slavery, and the introduction of TIDES.

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#Skystorians If you're looking to teach Indigenous political agency & female leadership in the Early Caribbean beyond the “extinction” narrative, check out my new piece in @hahr21.bsky.social on Cacicas Isabel and Orocomay. 👉🏿 read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article... #EarlyModern #Syllabus #GentedeMar

📢 Vocês pediram e prorrogamos as datas de defesa das teses e dissertações no Prêmio Michael Hall. Agora serão aceitos trabalhos defendidos entre 1º de março de 2024 e 30 de setembro de 2025! 👇🏽 RT #MundosdoTrabalho

Día 1 Escuela Básica Nacional Cacique Charaima. Sondeando la historia Guaiqueri a partir del arte con niños y niñas de la isla de Margarita. @caribbeandsc.bsky.social @oliverantczak.bsky.social #GentedeMar

📢 Chamada Aberta | Prêmio Michael Hall.
🏆 Convidamos a inscreverem trabalhos defendidos entre 1º de janeiro de 2024 e 1º de março de 2025. Serão premiadas 2 teses e 2 dissertações.
🗓️ Inscrições: de 1º de nov. a 20 de dez. de 2025
🔗 Bases completas: mundosdotrabalho.com.br/premiomichaelhall

Emocionados de continuar esta semana junto a @oliverantczak.bsky.social con esta idea que venimos poniendo en práctica: explorar la identidad indígena, la historia y el patrimonio a través del arte con jóvenes en la isla de Margarita. ❤️🤓 Gracias al @caribbeandsc.bsky.social por el apoyo. #GentedeMar

Congrats to Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez for this prize! Keep an eye out for the prizewinning article, forthcoming in the February 2026 issue (an advance publication version is available here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...)

Muy feliz y honrado de recibir este premio que lleva el nombre de Paula Vásquez. Si por alguna razón no tienen acceso al artículo pueden escribirme al DM. #GentedeMar ❤️🤓

🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨

MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social

📣 Já faz parte da Associação Nacional de História do Trabalho (Anaht)? Fortaleça a rede que constrói, pesquisa e pensa a história do trabalho 💪🏾📚
👉🏾 Filie-se: mundosdotrabalho.com.br/filiacoes
📩 Dúvidas: contatoanaht@gmail.com
#Anaht #MundosDoTrabalho

📣 Já faz parte da Associação Nacional de História do Trabalho (Anaht)? Fortaleça a rede que constrói, pesquisa e pensa a história do trabalho 💪🏾📚
👉🏾 Filie-se: mundosdotrabalho.com.br/filiacoes
📩 Dúvidas: contatoanaht@gmail.com
#Anaht #MundosDoTrabalho

Inmensamente feliz y honrado de recibir este premio. Lo dedico a la memoria de mi Padre Fidel Hermenegildo Rodríguez y a la gente de mi pueblo Punta de Piedras en la isla de Margarita. De ellos aprendí el oficio de pescar de perlas en los archivos ❤️ #GentedeMar

Congratulations to Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez (@fidelrodv.bsky.social) for winning the Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award for his book project, "Entangled by Pearls: Agents, Politics, and Labour in the Making of the Early Modern Atlantic World."

Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean Abstract. This article uses the histories of two Indigenous cacicas, Isabel and Orocomay, to analyze the assertion of Indigenous sovereignty and territorial control on the islands and mainland coast o...

Con mucha alegría comparto mi artículo en Hispanic American Historical Review: “Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” Lo dedico a la memoria de mi querido Profesor Rodrigo Navarrete Sánchez. 🔗 doi.org/10.1215/0018...

The Predatory Sea – Penn Press A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave ...

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📢 Mundos do Trabalho no debate público!
Professor Paulo Fontes (UFRJ e pesquisador visitante em Harvard)💬 “Talvez o mundo hoje seja mais industrial do que nunca foi”,

🌐 Leia a entrevista completa oglobo.globo.com/100-anos/not...

#Skyhistorians #CFP Seminario Internacional “Between Two Oceans: Connected Histories of Labour, Race, and Gender in the Americas (16th–19th centuries)” estamos recibiendo propuestas. Tendrá lugar el 12 de noviembre de 2025 en Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Detalles 👉🏾 forms.gle/t8mM5hGozb3P...

Co-Editor needed for Nineteenth-Century Contexts

📢Call for co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts📢 a great opportunity to work alongside Prof Alexandra K. Wettlaufer & a wonderful & active editorial team on this interdisciplinary journal. Apply by 18 July or get in touch with questions 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

#JobAlert: Five new opportunities have been brought to our attention. They consist of job positions and fellowships in various disciplines. Below you will find the appropriate links and applications.

Hola ‪@culturagob.bsky.social‬ ! El portal de los archivos españoles PARES no funciona! Sabéis cuando estará disponible de nuevo? Gracias!