Jose Ortega

Ph.D.,History UCLA, 2007.

Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: jortega@ucla.edu

Field

Colonial Latin America, Atlanic History, Slavery in the Americas, Sugar, Industrialization, and Technology.

Notes

Dissertation Title: The Cuban Sugar Complex in the Age of Revolution, 1789?1844.

Grants and Awards

Irvine Fellow, 2007.

Advisors

James Lockhart, Kevin Terraciano, Robin Derby, William Summerhill.

Conference Presentations

"Cuban Slavery and the Science of Work." UC Irvine, Cuba Research Reflections, May 2, 2008.

"The Transfer of Labor and Sugar Technology in Atlantic Cuba, 1820?1840s." Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, November 2, 2007.

"Estos Infernales Apostoles: The Limits of Social Control in the Cuban Slave Regime." Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, November 2, 2003.

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