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Kris Lane

{{short description|American historian}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2019}}

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| name = Kris Lane

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| birth_name = Kris Eugene Lane

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|04|07}}

| birth_place = {{nowr|Creston, British Columbia, Canada}}

| fields = Colonial Latin American history

| workplaces = {{ubl|Tulane University|College of William and Mary}}

| alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Colorado Boulder|University of Minnesota}}

| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2015)

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Kris Eugene Lane (born April 7, 1967) is a Canadian–American Fulbright scholar, researcher, professor, and author. His areas of academic teaching and research focus on colonial Latin American history. He has written and edited several books and articles on slavery, witchcraft, headhunting, mining, human trafficking, and piracy in the Caribbean.

Lane is the Frances V. Scholes Chair of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University.{{cite web|url=http://www.hist.umn.edu/news/allNews.php?entry=351271 |title=All News : History : University of Minnesota |publisher=Hist.umn.edu |date=2013-09-20 |access-date=2014-01-06}} He previously taught Latin American History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia,{{cite web|url=http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/articles/detail/916/Kris-Lane |title=Kris Lane // Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies at Tulane University |publisher=Stonecenter.tulane.edu |access-date=2014-01-06}} is the general editor of the Colonial Latin American Review, and a member of the board of editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Early life

Lane was born in Creston, British Columbia. He is the son of Rustin and Grace Fletcher. He was raised in Colorado, Texas, and British Columbia. Lane is married with one daughter. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder, graduating in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in History and Latin American Studies. In 1996, he earned his Ph.D in History from the University of Minnesota.

Career

In 1997, Lane joined the teaching staff of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where he taught history. During his employment, he was honored as one of the school's inaugural recipients of the Joseph Plumeri Award, which recognizes the university's faculty for excellence in teaching, research, and community service.{{cite web |url=http://www.wm.edu/giving/impact/faculty/lane.php |title=William & Mary - Plumeri Award Impact: Kris Lane |publisher=Wm.edu |access-date=2014-01-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106212322/http://www.wm.edu/giving/impact/faculty/lane.php |archive-date=2014-01-06 }} He has also served as a visiting professor at the National University of Colombia and the University of Leiden.In 2011, he joined the history department at Tulane University where he has taught courses on an array of subjects including the environmental history of Latin America, piracy, mining, and archive research. He has also worked extensively on the history of the Bolivian city of Potosi and its long history of silver mining.

Lane has traveled extensively in South- and Central America and has written, edited, and collaborated in presenting his research on piracy, slavery, gold mining, headhunting, and witchcraft in colonial Ecuador and Colombia. {{As of|2010}}, he serves as the general editor of the interdisciplinary journal Colonial Latin American Review.

He has also edited and wrote the introduction for Bernardo Vargas Machuca's work, Indian Militia and Description of the Indies and Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests, following their translations from Spanish. Published in Madrid, the two works were training manuals for conquistadors, written in 1599 by Vargas, as an extension of his military service in Italy and South America.

Awards

  • 2005: Fulbright Lecture Research Fellowship{{cite web |url=http://www.wm.edu/offices/sponsoredprograms/awardstats/recentfullbright/index.php |title=William & Mary - Recent Fulbright Scholar Awards |publisher=Wm.edu |access-date=2014-01-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106213656/http://www.wm.edu/offices/sponsoredprograms/awardstats/recentfullbright/index.php |archive-date=2014-01-06 }}
  • 2005: Edwin Lieuwen Memorial Prize for Teaching, awarded by the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies
  • 2009: Joseph Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence

Published works

= Books =

  • {{cite book|last = Lane|first = K. E.|display-authors = 0|date = 1998|title = Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500–1700|url = https://archive.org/details/trent_0116405270582|url-access = registration|location = Armonk|publisher = M. E. Sharpe|isbn = 9780765602565}}
  • {{cite book|last = Lane|first = K. E.|display-authors = 0|date = 2002|title = Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition|location = Albuquerque|publisher = University of New Mexico Press|isbn = 9780826323569}}
  • {{cite book|last = Lane|first = K. E.|display-authors = 0|date = 2010|title = Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires|location = New Haven|publisher = Yale University Press|isbn = 9780300161311}}
  • {{cite book|last = Lane|first = K. E.|display-authors = 0|date = 2011|title = Latin America in Colonial Times|others = With Restall, M.|location = Cambridge|publisher = Cambridge University Press|isbn = 9780521132602}}
  • {{cite book|last = Lane|first = K.|display-authors = 0|date = 2012|title = Crossroads and Cultures Vol. II: Since 1300|others = With Smith, B., Mieroop, M., Glahn, R.|location = Boston|publisher = Bedford/St. Martin's|isbn = 9780312559861}}
  • Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World. Oakland: University of California Press. 2019. {{ISBN|9780520280847}}.

= Journals =

  • {{cite journal |last=Lane |first=Kris |date=April 2000|title=The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth-century Barbacoas (Colombia) |journal=Slavery & Abolition |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=73–95|doi= 10.1080/01440390008575296|s2cid=143637744 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Lane |first=Kris E. |date=October 2000|title=Captivity and Redemption: Aspects of Slave Life in Early Colonial Quito and Popayan|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/the_americas/v057/57.2lane.html |journal=The Americas |publisher=The Academy of American Franciscan History |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=225–246|doi=10.1353/tam.2000.0011 |s2cid=144284361 |access-date=January 6, 2014}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Lane |first=Kris |date=2009 |title=Memorias robadas: reflexiones sobre archivos, historia y poder |journal=Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas |volume=46 |pages=167–176 |doi= 10.7767/jbla.2009.46.1.167|doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Lane |first=Kris |date=April 2011 |title=Gone Platinum: Contraband and Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Colombia |journal= Colonial Latin American Review|volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=61–79 |doi= 10.1080/10609164.2011.552549|s2cid=161626345 }}

Footnotes

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External links

  • [http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/articles/detail/916/Kris-Lane Kris Lane] at Tulane University

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Category:21st-century American historians

Category:21st-century American male writers

Category:College of William & Mary faculty

Category:Historians of Latin America

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Category:University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni

Category:American male non-fiction writers