Our community of early modern scholars in the Los Angeles area is uniquely enriched by the EMSI Mellon postdoctoral scholars. This 20^th Anniversary Conference of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute will celebrate their scholarship, partnerships, and contributions to early modern studies. Below is the list of the former postdoctoral scholars who are able to travel to present their current research projects in October 2023.  We look forward to seeing our colleagues and friends from across the nation at this special event.

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Daniela Bleichmar, USC

"Remaking the Aztecs in Print: Early Modern Versions of the Codex Mendoza"
Adrian Finucane, Florida Atlantic University
"The Opportunities of War: Captivity and Freedom in the Early 18th Century"
Jessica Keating, Carleton College
"Inventing Inventories, Picturing Pictures: Daniel Fröschl and the Imperial Kunstkammer of Rudolf II"
Sophia Blea Nuñez, Whitman College
"Touching cuerpos de libros"
Lindsay O'Neill, USC
"Crosscurrents: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Indian Ocean Slave Trade, and the East India Company"
Alison Sandman, James Madison University
"Drawing Lines and Making Claims: Pilots' reports, cosmographer's meetings, and the politics of cartography in the Spanish Empire"
Asheesh Siddique, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Inventing the Written Constitution"
Amy Watson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"The Stamp Act and the Transatlantic Political Origins of the Revolution"
Jennifer Wells, George Washington University
"Murder at the Mission: Greed, Gold, and the Birth of California"