Pablo F Gómez

Texas Christian University pablo.gomez@tcu.edu

Department of History (817) 257-5241
TCU Box 297260 Fax (817) 257-5650
Fort Worth, TX, 76129 Office: Reed 133

EDUCATION:
Vanderbilt University: Ph.D., History, 2010
Vanderbilt University: M.A., History, 2007
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana: Orthopaedic Surgeon, 2001
CES University: M.D. 1994

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University, August 2010 to present.
Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The
University of Iowa, 2003-2005.

BOOK MANUSCRIPT (in process)

Imagining Atlantic Bodies: Health, Illness, and Death in the Early Modern African-Spanish Caribbean.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming:
“La Colección Manuel Zapata Olivella.” Revista de Estudios Colombianos Spring 2011.

“Afro-Colombia” Chapter requested for publication in the Handbook on the African Diaspora, Oxford
University Press, James Miller, ed. Fall 2012.

Review of: Seeman, Erik R. Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800,
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylavnia Press, 2010. For the Journal of World History 22:4
(December 2011).

“Transatlantic Meanings: Healing Rituals and Material Culture from the Early-Modern Iberian Atlantic
world” for the edited volume Materialities, Meanings, and Modernities of Rituals in the Black
Atlantic, eds. Paula Sanders and Akin Ogundiran.
Published:
Five entries: “Laws of Burgos,” “Coffee,” “Mita,” “Cartel de Medellin,” and “Drug trafficking” in ed.
Alan Karras, Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010).
“Körper der Begegnung: Gesundheit, Tod un Heilung Im Frühneuzeitlichen Cartagena de Indias,” in ed.
Anne Ebert, Maria Lidola, Karoline Bahrs, and Karoline Noack ,Differenz und Herrschaft in den
Amerikas: Repräsentationen des Anderen in Geschichte und Gegenwart,”Berlin: Transcript
Verlag, 2009.
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Four entries: “Slavery and epidemics,” “Quarantine,” “Yellow Fever in Colonial Latin- America and the
Caribbean,” and “Race and epidemic disease.,” in, ed. Joseph Byrne, The Encyclopedia of
Plagues, Pestilence, and Epidemics. (Westport: Greenwood 2008).
“Early Attempts at Hip Arthroplasty- 1700s to 1950s,” Iowa Orthopaedic Journal (April 2005): 25-29.
“A Historical and Economic Perspective on Sir John Charnley, Chas F Thackray Limited, and the Early
Arthroplasty Industry,” Iowa Orthopaedic Journal (April 2005): 30-37.

Articles in process
Otherworldly Colonizers: African Concepts and Rituals of Dying, Death and the Dead in the Early
Modern Spanish Caribbean. (submitted-under review)

From Slave to Surgeon: Diego López and the Medical Market Place in Early-Modern Cartagena de Indias
(in process)

SELECTED AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS:

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies-Early Career Fellowship. Recent
Doctoral Recipients. Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, 2011-2012.
http://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=e9d23bad-4b50-de11-97ce-000c293a51f7
British Library/ Endangered Archives Program- Major Research Award for the project: “Creating a
Digital Archive of Afro-Colombian History and culture: Black Ecclesiastical and Notarial
Records from the Choco, Colombia” 2009-2011.
http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/2009/gomez.html
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/esss-civil.pl
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies-Dissertation Completion
Fellowship 2009-2010.
http://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=e9d23bad-4b50-de11-97ce-000c293a51f7
John Carter Brown Library-Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellowship, 2009.
College of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Grant, Vanderbilt University, summer 2009.
Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, summer research fellowship, April 2009.
Center for the Americas Research Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2008.
Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Prize for Best Graduate Paper. Annual meeting of the Latin American and
Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association. Birmingham, Alabama, November
2006.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS:

Forthcoming:
“West and West-Central African Networks of Bodily Knowledge in the Early Modern Spanish
Caribbean” at Yale University, Department for the History of Medicine and Science. (invited
presentation)
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“O Achaque do Bicho:” Luso-Atlantic Medicine and the Commodification of African Diseased Bodies”
at the 2011 Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Philadelphia.

“Early Modern Black Links: Afro-Arawak Itinerant Healing Rites in the Spanish Caribbean.” 2011
meeting of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Puerto Rico. (I organized the panel)

Presented:
“Mandinga” Bodily Encounters in the Early-Modern Spanish Caribbean,” African Studies Association
Meeting, November 2010.
“From Slave to Surgeon: Diego López and the Medical Market Place in Early-Modern Cartagena de
Indias,” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, October 2010.
“Imagining New World Bodies: The Africanization of the early modern Spanish Caribbean,” Brown
University, John Carter Brown Fellows lecture series, July 2010.
“The Dead in the Spanish Caribbean,” annual meeting of the Virginias, Carolinas and Georgia seminar in
Colonial Latin America.” University of South Carolina, Columbia, April 2010.
“Viruelas, Vomito Negro and other Pestilences,” meeting of the Southern Association for the History of
Medicine, Louisville, March 2010.
“Otherworldly Colonizers: Death and the Dead in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean,” biannual
meeting of the Forum on European Expansion and Interaction. Duke University. Durham.
February, 2010.
“'They Learned from Each Other:' West-Central African Healing Practices in the Early- Modern Spanish
Caribbean,” annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans, Louisiana.
September 2009.
“Mohanes, Surgeons and Witches: African Healers in Early Modern Cartagena de Indias,” bi- annual
Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 2009.
"Of “Mohanerias y Hechizos:” Trans-Atlantic healing practices in Early-Modern Colonial Spain," annual
meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio. April 2009.
“Transatlantic Meanings: Healing Rituals and Material Culture from Early-Modern Nuevo Reyno de
Granada and the Kingdom of Benin,” Annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archeology,
Toronto, Canada. January 2009.
“Health, Death and Salvation in Early-Modern Cartagena de Indias,” Making Race, Making Health
Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, November 2008.
“European and African health practices in Early Modern Nuevo Reyno de Granada” Symposium Ideas -
Images – Realities: Symbolic Representations in the Americas. Free University of Berlin,
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. April 2008.

“Alonso de Sandoval and African Slave Health Practices in Cartagena de Indias during the Seventeenth
Century,” 122th meeting of the American Historical Association, Panel: Illuminating Aethiopia:
New Directions in Research and Analysis of Alonso de Sandoval’s De instauranda Aethiopum
salute. Washington D.C. January 2008.
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SELECTED HISTORICAL PRESERVATION & SCHOLARLY COLLABORATION

Director British Library-Endangered Archives Program Major Research Project, “Creating a Digital
Archive of Afro-Colombian History and culture: Black Ecclesiastical and Notarial Records from
the Choco, Colombia.” http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/2009/gomez.html

Reviewer for the journal Anuario de Estudios Americanos. EEHA \(CSIC\) published by the Centro
Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Madrid, Spain, since March 2008.