Jamie Holeman cv Email: jamielholeman@aol.com   Fields: Latin American History, Atlantic History

MA Reserch Topic

I am currently working on my MA thesis which looks at the creation and maintenance of an image of a benign Cuban slavery. Using the writings of Cuban planters I will show how this humane image was created in response to internal and external threats to slavery. I will also be using travel accounts to illustrate how foreigners upheld the image. 

Conference Presentations:

2006
Southwestern Historical Association, San Antonio, Texas, paper presented "Cuban Slave Resistance and Travelers: An Examination of the Biases in Travel Accounts, 1840-1860"

2005
CSU Northridge 10th Annual Creative Works Symposium

Fellowships, Awards:

2007-08
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), University of Pittsburgh,  for the study of Portuguese

2007
Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh

2006-07
Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh

2006
Best Paper Prize, Latin America/Africa- Southwestern Historical Association- "Cuban Slave Resistance and Travelers: An Examination of the Biases in Travel Accounts, 1840-1860"

2005
Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship; Funding for Travel

2003-04
California State Study Abroad Scholar, University of Bristol, United Kingdom