Timothy Walker
Dr. Timothy D. Walker
Ph.D. in History (Early Modern Europe/Colonial Expansion); Boston University, 2001.
Professor of History
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
Tel: 1-508-996-2223
FAX: 1-508-999-8809
E-mail: twalker@umassd.edu
Biographical Information
Dr. Timothy Walker (B.A., Hiram College, 1986; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University, 2001) is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. At UMD, he serves as Fulbright Program Advisor (faculty and students); prior posts include Director of Tagus Press and Director of the UMass in Lisbon Study Abroad Program. He is a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Portuguese and an affiliated faculty member of the Center of Indian Studies and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Walker is also an Affiliated Researcher of the Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. From 1994 to 2003, he was a visiting professor at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon. During Fall term 2010 Walker was a visiting professor at Brown University. In September 2018 he was appointed Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Walker serves on the editorial board of the journal Social History of Medicine. He is the recipient of a Fulbright dissertation fellowship to Portugal (1996-1997), a doctoral research fellowship from the Portuguese Camões Institute (1995-1996), and a NEH-funded American Institute for Indian Studies Professional Development Grant for post-doctoral work in India (2000-2002). Walker has also been named a fellow of the Portuguese Orient Foundation (Fundação Oriente), the Luso-American Development Foundation (2003 & 2008), and has held a Wellcome Trust Travel Grant to the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London (Spring 2003). Walker also worked as a Lisbon-based researcher (1999-2001) on the Atlantic Slave Trade CD-Rom Database Project (Cambridge U. Press; D. Eltis, S. Behrendt & D. Richardson) and on the Global History of Leprosy Project, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University (2003). During the 2003-2004 academic year, Walker taught for the University of Pittsburgh Semester at Sea program. From 2005 to 2007 he held a U.C. Davis/Mars Research Fellowship while working on the “Colonial Chocolate Project,” coordinated through the University of California Davis Department of Nutrition. He remains a consultant for the Historical Division of Mars, Inc. In 2007, Walker was named a senior researcher on a National Science Foundation-funded project to study the competitive sharing of contested religious sites around the globe (2007-2011). Beginning in December 2010 he held a fellowship from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, to support the writing of a new monograph on Indo-Portuguese colonial medicine and hybridized medical culture. Walker was named a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (July 2012-June 2013).
Teaching fields include Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their empire, maritime history and European global colonial expansion. Current research topics include the adoption of colonial indigenous medicines by Europeans; climate data derived from colonial-era archival documentation; slave trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; as well as commercial and cultural links between the Portuguese overseas colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
BRIEF C.V.
Professor, Department of History, September 2004-present (tenure & promotion 2010; promotion 2016).
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA, 02747.
Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September 2018-present.
Visiting Professor of History at Brown University, Fall 2010.
Professor of History, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.
Institute for Shipboard Education Semester at Sea Program; William Pitt Union, University of Pittsburgh, 15260.
Served as a history professor on two round-the-world educational voyages. Taught the following courses: European Colonization in the Tropics; Maritime History during the Age of Sail; Comparative Global Slave Trade Systems.
Visiting Professor of History, Annually 1994-1996; 1998-2001; 2003.
Universidade Aberta de Lisboa (Open University of Lisbon); Rua da Escola Politécnica, 147; 1250 Lisbon, Portugal.
Designed, planned and conducted a graduate seminar course in problems of American history and historiography as part of a Master's degree program in American Studies for Portuguese and other European Union students.
Affiliated Researcher: Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM); Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2009-present).
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005.
Médicos, Medicina Popular e a Inquisição (Portuguese translation of the above text). Lisbon: Instituto de Ciências Sociais and Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2013.
José Pinto de Azeredo, Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (originally published in 1799 in Lisbon as Ensaios sobre algumas enfermidades de Angola). Coeditor with Adelino Cardoso, António Braz de Oliveira and Manuel Marques. Dartmouth: Tagus Press, 2016.
Antagonistic Tolerance: Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites and Spaces. Coauthor and coeditor with Robert M. Hayden, Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Aykan Erdemir, Devika Rangachari, Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Enrique López-Hurtado, and Milica Bakić-Hayden. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
"Some Observations about Medical Practice and Culture at Lisbon's Todos-os-Santos Hospital during the Enlightenment Era." Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal, 2a série, no. 11 (Jan-June 2019), 11-26.
"Medicinal Mercury in Early Modern Portuguese Records: Recipes and Methods from Eighteenth-Century Medical Guidebooks." In Histories of Mercury in Medicine across Asia and Beyond. Special issue of Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 69:4 (March/April 2015), 1017-42.
"Enlightened Absolutism and the Lisbon Earthquake: Asserting State Dominance over Religious Sites and the Church in 18th-Century Portugal." Eighteenth Century Studies 48:3 (March/April 2015).
“Circulation of Medicine in the Early Modern Atlantic World” (co-author with Dr. Harold J. Cook; Brown University). Introduction to Mobilising Medicine: Trade & Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic World, a special issue of The Social History of Medicine 26:3 (2013); Harold J. Cook and Timothy D. Walker, eds.
“The Medicines Trade in the Portuguese Atlantic World: Dissemination of Plant Remedies and Healing Knowledge from Brazil, c. 1580-1830.” In Mobilising Medicine: Trade & Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic World, a special issue of The Social History of Medicine 26:3 (2013).
“Intersecting Religioscapes: A Comparative Approach to Trajectories of Change, Scale, and Competitive Sharing of Religious Spaces” (co-author with Dr. Robert Hayden; University of Pittsburgh). In the Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81:2 (2013).
“Atlantic Dimensions of the American Revolution: Imperial Priorities and the Portuguese Reaction to the North American Bid for Independence (1775-1783).” In the Journal of Early American History 2 (2012), pp. 247–285.
“The Early Modern Globalization of Indian Medicine: Portuguese Dissemination of Drugs and Healing Techniques from South Asia on Four Continents, 1670-1830.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Number 19 (Dr. Cristiana Bastos, guest editor; September 2010).
“Slave Labor and Chocolate in Brazil: The Culture of Cacao Plantations in Amazonia and Bahia (17th-19th Centuries).” In a special issue of the journal Food and Foodways, Carole Counihan and Allen Grieco, eds. (Taylor and Francis, June 2007).
“Slaves, Soldiers and the Indian Mutiny as Seen from Goa: One Portuguese Response to the Crisis in British India, 1857-1859,” in The Portuguese Studies Review, 11 (2), 2004.
“The Role of the Popular Healer in Early Modern Portugal.” In Manguinhos: História Ciências Saúde (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Volume 11, Supplement 1, 2004.
“Abolishing the Slave Trade in Portuguese India: Documentary Evidence of Popular and Official Resistance to Crown Policy, 1842-1860.” In Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 25, No. 2. London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd., 2004.
“Sorcerers and Folkhealers: Africans and the Inquisition in Portugal (1680-1800).” In Revista Lusófona de Ciênciadas Religiões; Ano III, 2004; no. 5 (Paris; Gulbenkian Foundation) (pp. 83-98).
"Remedies from the Carreira da Índia: Asian Influences on Portuguese Medicine during the Age of Enlightenment." In The Portuguese Studies Review, Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2, 2001.
"Slaves, Free Blacks and the Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal: Race as a Factor in Magical Crimes Trials." In The Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Vol. XXV No. 2, 2000.
Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume Chapters:
“Physicians and Surgeons in the Service of the Portuguese Inquisition: Twelve Years After,” in Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World, Maria Pia Donato, ed. (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2019).
“Crown Authorities, Colonial Physicians, and the Exigencies of Empire: The Codification of Indigenous Therapeutic Knowledge in India and Brazil during the Enlightenment Era,” in Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Matt Crawford and Joe Gabriel, eds. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).
“Imposing Christianity on North Africa at the Dawn of Portuguese Overseas Expansion: Roman Catholic Competitive Domination of Muslim Religious Sites in Ceuta, North Africa (c. 1415-1475),” in Los orígenes de la expansión europea: Ceuta, 1415 (2 vols.), Fernando Villada Paredes, ed. (Ceuta, Spain: Instituto de Estudios Ceutíes, 2019).
“Global Cross-Cultural Dissemination of Indigenous Medical Practices through the Portuguese Colonial System: Evidence from 16th-18th Century Ethno-Botanical Manuscripts,” in Globalization of Knowledge in the Iberian Colonies, Helge Wendt, ed. (Berlin: Max Planck Institut Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge [Open Access], 2016).
“Enduring Echoes of Garcia da Orta: The Royal Hospital Gardens in Goa and Evolving Hybridization in Portuguese Colonial Medical Culture,” in Palmira Fontes da Costa (ed.), Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India in Context (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015).
“The Role and Practices of the Female Folk Healer (Curandeira, Saludadora and Parteira) in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World.” Contribution for the edited volume: Women in the Iberian Atlantic World (1500-1800); Sarah Owen and Jane Mangan, editors (Louisiana State U. P., 2012).
“European Ambitions and Early Contacts: Diverse Styles of Colonization (1492-1700),” opening chapter for new colonial American history textbook: Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, Louise Breen, editor (Routledge Press, December 2011).
“Supplying Simples for the Royal Hospital: An Indo-Portuguese Medicinal Garden in Goa (1550-1830).” In The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies of Engagement, Laura Jarnagin, ed. (Singapore: The Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 2011).
“Stocking Colonial Pharmacies: Commerce in South Asian Indigenous Medicines from their Native Sources in the Portuguese Estado da Índia.” Chapter in the edited volume Networks in the First Global Age (1400-1800); Rila Mukherjee, editor (New Delhi: Primus Press, 2011).
“Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Portuguese Colonial Empire during the Early Modern Period.” In Science, Power and the Order of Nature in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires (edited volume), Daniela Bleichmar, Kristin Huffine, Paula De Vos and Michael Sheehan, eds. (Stanford University Press, 2009).
“Cure or Confection?: Chocolate in the Portuguese Royal Court and Colonial Hospitals, c. 1580-1830.” In Chocolate: History, Culture and Heritage, Louis Grivetti and Howard Shapiro, eds. (Wiley, 2009).
“Establishing Cacao Plantation Culture in the Atlantic World: Portuguese Colonial Cacao Cultivation in Brazil and West Africa, c. 1580-1912.” In Chocolate: History, Culture and Heritage (Wiley, 2009).
“Physicians and surgeons in the service of the Inquisition: the nexus of religion and conventional medical training in enlightenment-era Portugal.” In Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe (edited volume), Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham, eds. (Ashgate Publishing, 2007).
“A Commodities Price Guide and Merchants’ Handbook to the Ports of Asia: Portuguese Trade Information-Gathering and Marketing Strategies in the Estado da Índia (circa 1750-1800).” In Metahistory: History Questioning History; A Festschrift for Teotónio R. de Souza (edited collection), Dr. Charles Borges and Dr. Michael N. Pearson, editors. (Lisbon, Nova Vega, 2007).
“Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857-1860.” In Slavery in the Indian Ocean Region (edited volume), Richard Eaton and Indrani Chatterjee, editors (Indiana U. P., 2006).
"Lisbon as a Strategic Haven in the Atlantic World." In Atlantic Perspectives; Willem W. Klooster and Alfred L. Padula, eds. New York: Prentice Hall, 2003.
"Evidence of the Use of Ayurvedic Medicine in the Medical Institutions of Portuguese India, 1680-1830." In Ayurveda at the Crossroads of Care and Cure. Lisbon: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2002.
"The Role of Licensed Physicians and Surgeons in the Inquisition and at Court during the Reign of João V." In Discovery, New Frontiers and Expansion in the Luso-Hispanic World. The Mediterranean Studies Association, 1999.
Work in Progress:
1. “Contesting Sacred Space in the Portuguese Estado da Índia: Asserting Cultural and Political Dominance Over Religious Sites during the Conquest of Goa.” Article manuscript is under review for publication in the journal South Asian Studies (revised & resubmitted; summer 2018). [Research done for the Project: “Antagonistic Tolerance: A Comparative Study of Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites”: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/antagonistictolerance/AT_Main_Page.html]
2. “Odd Partners & Converging Interests: Trade and Diplomacy between Portugal and the United States during the Era of George Washington (c. 1781-1805).” Conference publication: “The Marquis de Lafayette and the European Friends of the American Revolution.” Douglas Bradburn and Andrew O’Shaughnessy, eds. (Mount Vernon, Virginia: The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington & University of Virginia Press; publication expected 2019).
3. National Science Foundation Application (initially submitted July 2017). Project Title: “Assessing Historic Changes in Climate in the Indian Ocean, circa 1500-1950, using American and Portuguese maritime archival sources.”
Collaborators: Timothy Walker (Professor of History; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), Caroline Ummenhofer (Research Scientist; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and Neil Tangri (Doctoral Candidate in Ocean Environmental Science; Stanford University)
Building on the success of the ACRE and Old Weather projects, we will recover, quantify, and analyze climate records from Portuguese and American whaling archives. With colonial outposts around the Indian Ocean rim and regular shipping traffic between them, the Portuguese observed and recorded regional weather conditions. Using Portuguese colonial archival sources in India and Portugal, and U.S. whaling logbooks held in New England, climatologists and historians can potentially push global weather data back over 500 years, with a much broader geographical distribution than is currently available. Status: Revise and resubmit in Fall 2018.
4. Co-Editor and founder (with Dr. Timothy Coates, College of Charleston): “Classic Histories in Translation from the Portuguese-Speaking World” Book Series; Tagus Press at UMASS Dartmouth. Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press.
This series publishes (in English) important Portuguese-language texts and manuscripts from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries that shed light on the period of Portuguese maritime expansion and global interaction (texts from Asia, Africa, South America, and the Atlantic Islands).
ACADEMIC HONORS:
Invited Research Scholar: The John Carter Brown Library (Providence, RI): Fundação Gulbenkian Fellow (May-June 2017). Project Title: “Tracking the Early Modern Drugs Trade in the Portuguese Colonial World, circa 1450-1820.”
Fellowship: The Scalinger Institute (Leiden University, The Netherlands): Van de Sande Fellowship (August 2017) Project Title: “A Survey of Early Modern Medical Texts in the Bibliotheca Thysiana to Assess Reciprocal Knowledge Exchanges with the Lusophone World…”
Fellowship: NEH Munson Institute Summer Seminar on American Maritime History at Mystic Seaport (Summer 2016). Project Title: “Experience and Naturalization of Foreign-born Mariners serving on New England Merchant & Whaling Ships during the Early National Era, circa 1789-1850.”
Fellowship: The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. (Summer 2015) Project Title: “Commercial Relationships between George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and the Kingdom of Portugal: Commodities, Ports & Merchants.”
Archbishop Marsh’s Library (Dublin, Ireland): Muriel McCarthy Research Fellowship (2014). Project: “A Survey of Early Northern European Medical Texts to Assess Reciprocal Knowledge Exchanges with the Lusophone World.”
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (12 Months; July 2012-June 2013). Project: “Global Medical Exchanges in the Portuguese Colonial World”
P.I.; NEH “Landmarks in American History” Grant for teacher training workshops in MA (2011; 2013). Title: “Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the Underground Railroad.” Award: $178,000.00
UMASSD Joseph P. Healey Endowment Grant (2012): $5000.00 to support research and transcription of Portuguese Jesuit documentation at the Society of Jesus Archive (ARSI), Rome; June/July 2012.
Fundação Gulbenkian Fellowship (Portugal) for Research & Book Manuscript Composition (2010-2011).
Named Senior Research Scholar in a U.S. National Science Foundation Grant (2007-2011). Project Title: “Antagonistic Tolerance: Global Comparative Perspectives on Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites”
University of the Azores Mobility Program Antero de Quental/Luso-American Development Foundation Grant for research at the Regional Archives of the Azores (2009-2010).
Affiliated Researcher: Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM); Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2009-present).
University of California Davis/Mars History of Chocolate Project Grant (January 2005-Summer 2007).
Portuguese Fundação Oriente (Orient Foundation) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003-2004).
Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Travel Grant (2003)(Affiliation at the Wellcome Centre, UCL).
National Archive of Portugal/Luso-American Development Foundation Research Fellow (2002-2003; 2008).
NEH/American Institute of Indian Studies Professional Development Grant to India (2000-2001; 2002).
Boston University Humanities Foundation Award (1998).
Fulbright Dissertation Research Grant to Portugal (1996-1997).
Portuguese Instituto Camões Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (1995-1996).
Luso-American Development Foundation Grant for Travel and Maintenance (1994; 1996; 1999; 2000).
Invited Visiting Fellow and lecturer at the Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and the Sorbonne, Paris, France (One-month residency & four lectures completed in June 2007).
Invited Visiting Fellow and lecturer at the University of Hyderabad; Centre for Regional Studies (14-26 January 2007) U.P.E. (University Professor Exchange) Visiting Scholar Presented four lectures on themes of Portuguese history for the campus academic community.