Daniel N. Genkins
Vanderbilt University
Department of History
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235
daniel.n.genkins@vanderbilt.edu
Education
 PhD in History, Vanderbilt University, projected for 2017
o Latin American Studies Certificate (in progress)
 M.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2011
o Thesis: “Commercial Paradigms in the Revolutionary Atlantic: An Interimperial
Comparative Analysis of Three Port Cities during the Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries”
 B.S. in Economics, Duke University, 2009 (high honors)
Grants and Fellowships
 Fellowship for Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography at the Huntington
Library, Summer 2015
 Travel grant for presentation (ASE), College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University
2013
 Herbert and Blanche Henry Weaver Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Summer 2013
 Travel grant for presentation (SECOLAS), College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt
University 2013
 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Center for Latin American
Studies, Vanderbilt University, Summer 2012
 Tuition Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2011 – 2013
 Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2011 – 2013
 Teaching Assistantship, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2009 – 2011
Publications
 “‘To Seek New Worlds, for Gold, for Praise, for Glory’: El Dorado and Empire in
Sixteenth-Century Guiana,” The Latin Americanist 58.1 (2014): 89 – 104.
Conference Papers
 “‘River People’: Choctaws and Boatmen in Early Nineteenth-Century Mississippi,”
American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE), New Orleans, Louisiana, 2013
 “‘To Seek New Worlds, for Gold, for Praise, for Glory’: El Dorado and Empire in
Sixteenth-Century Guiana,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
(SECOLAS), Panama City, Panama, 2013
Teaching Experience
 Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Fall 2009 – Spring 2011
o Modern European History, Colonial Latin American History, 20th-Century United
States Social Movements, Modern East Asian History

Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2012 – Fall 2014
o The U.S. and the Cold War, Western Civilization since 1700, Western
Civilization to 1700, Shakespeare’s Histories, The U.S. and the Vietnam War
Classroom Lectures
 “Pre-Columbian Indigenous Peoples of North America,” for the course United States
History I, Nashville State Community College, Spring 2012
 “An Age of Expansion: Economic Growth and the Discovery of the New World,” for the
course Western Civilization to 1700, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2012
 “The Global Impact of the French Revolution,” for the course Western Civilization since
1700, Vanderbilt University, Spring 2013
Other Professional Service
 Treasurer, Graduate Historical Association, Vanderbilt University, 2013 – 2014
 Co-President, Graduate Historical Association, Vanderbilt University, 2012 – 13
 Treasurer, Graduate Historical Association, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
2010 – 11
Academic Awards and Recognition
 Moseley Award for best graduate student paper, SECOLAS, Panama City, Panama, 2013
Language Skills
 English (native)
 Portuguese (reading, writing, basic conversational)
 French (reading, writing, basic conversational)
 Spanish (reading, writing, basic conversational)
Professional Memberships
 Phi Beta Kappa
 American Historical Association (AHA)
 Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)
 American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE)