PAT SEED
Professor History Department Rice University
Academic Awards
1994-1995 Vasco Da Gama Lecturer (Portuguese Govt. Commission on the
History of Discoveries)/
1993 Daughters of Colonial Wars Prize (William and Mary Quarterly) for
"Taking Possession and Reading Texts'/
1991 Conference on Latin American History 2d Place for "'Failing to
Marvel:' Atahualpa's Encounter with the Word" Latin American Research
Review/
1989 Herbert E. Bolton Prize and 1989 Bryce Wood 2d place for To Love,
Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico/
Academic Fellowships John Carter Brown Library, National Endowment
for the
Humanities, Tinker Foundation, Fulbright Research Fellowship, Social
Science Research Council
Current Editorial Boards Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas
History (Leiden, Netherlands) H-World, on-line forum in world history,
Latin American Subaltern Studies, Book Series Editor, World History
Library, University of California Press
Books:
*American Pentimento: The Pursuit of Riches and the Invention of
"Indians* (Anthropology) / University of Minnesota Press, 2001
*Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World,
1492-1640* (History)
Cambridge University Press, 1995 (in Portuguese, 2000)/
*To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts Over Marriage
Choice, 1574-1821* (History)
Stanford University Press, 1988 (in Spanish,
1992)/
Lectures: (50+) Overseas São Paulo, Brasilia, Lisbon, Canberra
(Australia), Cape Town (South Africa), Dunedin (NZ), Essex
(Eng.) Brussels, Antwerp (Belgium), Leiden (Netherlands), Oslo,
Stockholdm, Copenhagen, multiple locations in Canada and Mexico; Named
lectures in U.S.include John H. Parry Lecture (Harvard), Trumball Lecture
(Yale), Allabough Lecture (Dartmouth),
Articles and book chapters (50+) in literary theory, film studies,
anthropology, mathematical sociology, cartography, historical areas
inc. Latin America, colonial U.S., early modern Europe,historical topics
military, political, cultural, indigenous peoples, comparative, many also
in Spanish and Portuguese
Academic Offices Founding Member Latin American Subaltern Studies,
Founding
Vice
President, Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction,
1994-1996; Other offices in American Historical Association, Conference on
Latin American History
Software Programming and Design
Awards: "Latitude" (www.rice.edu/latitude) About.com "Best of the
Net," 1999 Yahoo "What's New;" Bonus.Com "Supersite" for Geography and
Science Education, also 4kids.org, Chronicle of Higher Education Insite,
Carmen Sandiego (Frequently top-ranked site at Google for word
"latitude;" consistently outranks Dell Corp.)
Documentary Film Consultant: Capiau Productions (Antwerp,
Belgium) Charles
V and the Americas
TV & Webcasts KUHT (Houston) "Taking Possession: Comparative
Cultural
History" "Caliban and Native Title: The Tempest" Library of
Congress/American Historical Association, "Globalizing the
Americas" "Globalizing Regional History" Webcast July 1999
Languages: Fluent: Spanish, French, and Portuguese/ Adequate
Reading
Speaking: Dutch, Italian, Ladino, Afrikaans /Reading only: Latin,
Catalan, Flemish/ Some reading and speaking Arabic, Hebrew, Swedish,
and Danish.