Research
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“Oh Famous Race!” New article in The Public Historian
My latest article came out in the University of California Press’ and National Council on Public History’s journal The Public Historian, 18: 1 (February 2016): 18-47. It examines the transnational and international politics and motivations behind the Eurocentric campaigns of Portuguese American heritage advocates to memorialize the sixteenth-century navigators Miguel Corte-Real and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo…
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Gilberto Fernandes, Ph.D.!
It’s done! After five long, labour-intensive years, I successfully defended my dissertation Of Outcasts and Ambassadors: the Making of Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America on September 12, thus fulfilling all requirements for obtaining my Ph.D. degree in History at York University. My dissertation committee – Dr. Roberto Perin (supervisor), Dr. Adrian Shubert, Dr. William…
