2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4287
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: das@umd.edu

           David Sartorius specializes in colonial Latin American history with a focus on race and the African diaspora in the Caribbean.  Since 1996 he has traveled regularly to Cuba for archival research, and he is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Ever Faithful:  Race and Loyalty in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.”  He has also published “My Vassals:  Free-Colored Militias and the Ends of Spanish Empire” in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.  After receiving the Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003, Sartorius taught at Whittier College and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Latin American Studies Center at the University of Maryland in 2006.

Sartorius teaches introductory courses on colonial and modern Latin American history as well as upper-division and graduate courses on colonial Latin America, Caribbean history, gender and sexuality in Latin America, and Afro-diasporic dialogues in the Americas.  He has served as chair of the International Scholarly Relations Committee of the Conference on Latin American history and is currently a member of the editorial collective of Social Text and the organizing collective of the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, an annual gathering in Mexico of North American and Latin American scholars.

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