Tulane University

Contact Info
jboyden@tulane.edu

Department Affiliation
History

Degrees

• B.A., Southern Oregon State College, History, 1977
• M.A., University of Texas, History, 1982
• Ph.D., University of Texas, History, 1988

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1994-
• Visiting Associate Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000-2001
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1991-1994
• Assistant Professor of History, Yale University, 1988-1991

Research & Teaching Specializations: Spain; History; Hapsburg Spain; Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern Atlantic World

Related Experience

• Department chair, Department of History, Tulane University, 2004-2007
• Graduate Director, Department of History, Tulane University, 1996-99
• Associate Chair, Department of History, Tulane University, 1994-1996

Distinctions

• School of Liberal Arts Award for Outstanding Teaching, Tulane University, 2011
• Morse Fellowship, Yale University (declined), 1991-1992
• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Texas, 1988-1989
• Barnes Lathrop Prize (departmental dissertation prize), University of Texas, 1988-1989
• Fulbright Fellowship (declined), 1983-1984

Languages

• Spanish
• Italian
• Catalán
• Portuguese
• French

Overseas Experience

• Spain

Selected Publications

• 2014. “‘Wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations’: Hurricane Katrina as a Providential Catastrophe,” Edited by Randy Sparks and Romain Huret. Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press: 70-80.
• 2013. “The Historian of an Age of Decline, 1963-2013,” in “BSPHS Forum. Golden Anniversaries: Sir John Elliott’s Imperial Spain and The Revolt of the Catalans after Fifty Years,” Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 38(1): 214-218.
• 2002. “Honor on the Scaffold in the Spanish Monarchy.” Acta Histriae. 8.
• 2002. “Renaissance Exploration.” In Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Paul F. Grendler, editor. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• 2000. “The Worst Death Becomes a Good Death: The Passion of Don Rodrigo Calderón.” In The Place of the Dead in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 1999. “Fortune Has Stripped You of Your Splendor: Favourites and Their Fates in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain.” In The World of the Favourite. J. H. Elliott and L. W. B. Brockliss, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 1995. The Courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the Court of Spain. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: HISE 1220: The Emergence of the Contemporary World Since 1789, HISE 2410:Spain, 1369-1716, Sixteenth-Century European Civilization; HISE 3190: Spanish Civil War, HISA 3170: Medieval Spain, Early Modern Spain, c.1450-1716

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 2

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