Karen Melvin
- 207-786-8208
- kmelvin@bates.edu
- History
- Associate Professor
- Pettengill Hall, Room 123
B.A., Boston University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Colonial Mexico, and especially the role of the Church and religion in Mexico and the early modern world. Her major research project examines Mendicant Orders and their role in the creation of colonial urban culture. She is also working on a history of alms collected in the Americas for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from Muslim North Africa.
Teaching Interests:
- History 181: Latin American History: from the Conquest to the Present
- History 279: The Age of Independence in Latin America
- History 282: The City in Latin America
- History 390H: The Mexican Revolution
- HI/RE 390Y: The Spanish Inquisition
- FYS 329: Latin American Time Machine
To learn more about studying Latin America at Bates, go to the Bates Latin American Studies website: http://bateslatinamericanstudies.wordpress.com/