Ignacio Gallup-Díaz

Ignacio Gallup-Díaz, Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, earned his PhD from Princeton and specializes in the history of the early modern Atlantic World. His courses explore how European conquest and settlement of the Americas, coupled with the forced migration of Africansand the continued presence of Amerindian communities, led to the evolution of complex societies. He has written about the interaction between competing European colonizers and Panama's Kuna people. Gallup-Díaz is now at work on research projects that explore the development of autonomous African and indigenous communities in Panama and Suriname during the period of colonization; the intellectual underpinnings of early English expansion; and poetical depictions of the Spanish attempts to subdue eastern Panama and its peoples.