Emily Berquist Soule

Emily Kay Berquist (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2007) is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. A former Fulbright scholar, Dr. Berquist has been awarded funding from the American Council of Learned Societies, The Dibner Program in the History of Science at the Huntington Library, the American Historical Association, the Atlantic History Seminar at Harvard University, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Spanish Ministry of Culture (among others). She has worked extensively in historical archives throughout Spain, Colombia, and Peru. At Long Beach, she teaches the history of Colonial Latin America and the Spanish Empire at the advanced undergraduate and Master's levels. Dr. Berquist has also published on her second book project, "The Politics of Slavery in the Late Spanish Empire" (see corresponding article in Slavery & Abolition, June 2010.) This work investigates early antislavery sentiment and the politics of slavery in the late Spanish Empire, with a special focus on the disastrous Spanish attempt to establish a slave trading depot off the coast of West Africa in the late-eighteenth century.