Timothy D. Walker
Timothy Walker (B.A., Hiram College, 1986; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University, 2001) is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and a visiting professor at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal. He is also a member of the graduate faculty of the U. Mass. Dartmouth Department of Portuguese Studies. Teaching fields include Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their empire, maritime history and European global colonial expansion.
Walker is the recipient of a Fulbright dissertation fellowship to Portugal (1996), a doctoral research fellowship from the Portuguese Cam_es Institute (1995) and an NEH-funded American Institute for Indian Studies Professional Development Grant for post-doctoral work in India (2000-2002). Walker has also been a fellow of the Portuguese Orient Foundation (FundaÁ„o Oriente), the Luso-American Development Foundation, and has held a Wellcome Trust Travel Grant to the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London (2003). During the 2003-2004 academic year, Walker taught for the University of Pittsburgh Semester at Sea program.
Current research topics focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, and include the adoption of colonial indigenous medicines by European science during the Enlightenment, 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.
Publications:
Book:
Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal
during the Enlightenment Era. Forthcoming from Brill Academic Publishers; Leiden,
The Netherlands (April, 2005).
Articles:
"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: HistÛria
CiÍncias Sa·de (FundaÁ„o 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. 3. London: Frank Cass Publications, 2004.
"Portuguese Paradox: 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.
"Remedies from the Carreira da Õndia: 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.
"The Role of Licensed Physicians and Surgeons in the Inquisition and at Court during the Reign
of Jo„o V." In Discovery, New Frontiers and Expansion in the Luso-Hispanic World.
The Mediterranean Studies Association, 1999.
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