IOWC Research Associate: Markus Vink

Markus Vink is a Professor in History at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He gained his PhD from the University of Minnesota (1998) with a thesis entitled “Encounters on the Opposite Coast: Cross-Cultural Contacts Between Representatives of the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century.” He is Book Review Editor of of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

Dr. Vink, whose languages include Dutch, German, French, and Portuguese, has received a number of awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2004) and the William T. Hagan Young Scholar Award (2001). His current research interests are focused on a wide range of issues related to cross-cultural encounters in early modern India and the Indian Ocean Basin, most notably slavery and the slave trade, international political economy, comparative institutional (business) history, the law of nations and the freedom of the seas, the relationship between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ trade systems, the ‘military revolution’, caste formation and identity, and representation and agency. Currently, he is completion of a manuscript called Mission to Madurai: Dutch Court Journeys to the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century, which will be published in the series Dutch Sources on South Asia by Manohar Publishers in Delhi, India.

Other research interests include the histories of South Asia (1500-1800), the Indian Ocean (1500-1800), Southeast Asia (1500-1800), early modern globalization, the comparative early modern world (Asia and Europe), cross-cultural encounters, international political economy, overseas church and state, institutional (business) history, European expansion, the Dutch Republic, the “military revolution” and “modern” and “traditional” commercial networks.

• 2011 (forthcoming) Mission to Madurai: Dutch court journeys to the Nayaka state of Madurai in the seventeenth century. Dutch sources on South Asia 4. (Delhi: Manohar Press, 2011) (forthcoming)
• (forthcoming) “Encounters on the opposite coast: The Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka state of Madurai in the seventeenth century” (manuscript in preparation)
• (forthcoming) “The Madurai enterprise: The Dutch East India Company and traditional trade networks in southeast India in the seventeenth century”. Dutch sources on South Asia. (Delhi: Manohar Press, forthcoming)
• (forthcoming) “’The world's oldest trade:’ Dutch slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth century”(manuscript in preparation)
• 1994 (with George D. Winius), The merchant-warrior pacified: The VOC (Dutch East India Company) and its changing political economy in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. (Reprinted as paperback by Oxford University Press in 1994)

• 2011 (forthcoming) “The Asian Mediterranean: Port-cities and urban networks in the Indian Ocean World” (review article), Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient/Journal d’Histoire Économique et Sociale de l’Orient 54:1 (2011) (forthcoming)
• 2010 (forthcoming) “A Mediterranean world-economy: The Arabian Seas in the 18th century” (review article), The Mariner’s Mirror 96:4 (2010) (forthcoming)
• 2007 “Freedom and slavery: The Dutch Republic, the VOC world, and the debate over the ‘world’s oldest trade’”, South African Historical Journal 59 (2007), pp. 19-46
• 2007 “A work of compassion? The Dutch slavery debate in the seventeenth century,” in: Nigel Worden ed., Contingent lives: Social identity and material culture in the VOC world. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2007, pp. 463-499
• 2007 (with Jean Taylor, Heather Sutherland, and Robert Ross), “Comparisons and ways forward,” in: Nigel Worden ed., Contingent lives: Social identity and material culture in the VOC world. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2007, pp. 602-612
• 2007 “Indian Ocean studies and the ‘new thalassology,’” Journal of Global History 2:1 (2007), pp. 41-62
• 2007 “Between profit and power: The Dutch East India Company and institutional early modernities in the age of mercantilism,” in: Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley eds., Between the Middle Ages and modernity: Individual and community in the early modern world. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007, pp. 285-306
• 2005 “A match made in heaven? World-system analysis and Dutch Indian Ocean studies,” in: Leonard Blussé and Ernst van Veen eds., Rivalry and conflict: European traders and Asian trading networks in the 16th and 17th century. Studies in Overseas History Vol. 7. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2005, pp. 267-314
• 2004 “From port-city to world-system: Spatial constructs in Dutch Indian Ocean studies, 1500-1800,” Itinerario 28:2 (2004), pp. 45-116
• 2003 “'The world's oldest trade:' The Dutch Indian Ocean slave trade in the seventeenth century,” Journal of World History 14:2 (June 2003), pp. 131-177 (one of three readings in ‘Unit 14: Land and Labor Relationships’ of Bridging World History, consisting of professional development and multimedia classroom materials to support the study of world history. The project’s advisory board includes Jerry Bentley (University of Hawaii), Richard Bulliet (Columbia University), Ross Dunn (San Diego State University), Patrick Manning (Northeastern University), William McNeill (emeritus University of Chicago), and Anand Yang (University of Washington) See here
• 2002 “Between the devil and the deep blue sea: The Christian Paravas, a ‘Portuguese’ client-community in 17th-century southeast India,” Itinerario 26:2 (2002), pp. 64-98
• 2001 “The temporal and spiritual conquest of the Fishery Coast: The Portuguese-Dutch struggle over the Parava community of southeast India, c. 1640-1700,” Portuguese Studies Review 9:1/2 (2001), pp. 372-397
• 2000 “’New’ or ‘high’ imperialism, 1870-1914: Process and patterns,” World History Bulletin 17:1 (Fall 2000), pp. 16-31
• 2000 “Church and state in seventeenth-century colonial Asia: Dutch-Parava relations in southeast India in a comparative perspective,” Journal of Early Modern History 4:1 (May 2000), pp. 1-42
• 1999 “Cross-cultural encounters, 1500-1850,” World History Bulletin 15:2 (Fall 1999), pp. 31-39
• 1997 “Images and ideologies of Dutch-South Asian contact: Cross-cultural encounters between the Nayaka state of Madurai and the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century,” Itinerario 21:2 (1997), pp. 82-123
• 1995 “The Dutch East India Company and the pepper trade between Kerala and Tamilnad, 1663-1795: A geohistorical analysis,” in: K.S. Mathew ed., Mariners, merchants and oceans: Studies in maritime history. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1995, pp. 273-300
• 1993 “South India and the China Seas: How the V.O.C. shifted its weight from China and Japan to India around A.D. 1636” (with George D. Winius), in: Artur Teodore de Matos and Luís Filipe Reis Thomaz eds., As relações entre a Índia portuguesa, a Ásia do Sueste e o Extremo Oriente. Macao and Lisbon: CNCDP, Commissão Territorial para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, Fundação Oriente; Instituto Cultural de Macau, Instituto Portugûes do Oriente, 1993 (Reprinted in: George D. Winius, Studies on Portuguese Asia, 1495-1689. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2001, X, pp. 125-140)
• 1991 “The entente cordiale: The Dutch East India Company and Portuguese shipping through the Straits of Malacca, 1641-1663,” Revista da Cultura 13/14 (January/June 1991), pp. 288-309
• 1990 “Mare liberum and dominium maris: Legal arguments and implications of the Luso-Dutch struggle for control over Asian waters, ca. 1600-1663,” in: K.S. Mathew ed., Studies in maritime history. Pondicherry: Mission Press, 1990, pp. 38-68
• 1990 “Passes and protection rights. The Dutch East India Company as a redistributive enterprise in Malacca, 1641-1662,” Moyen Orient & Océan Indien. Middle East & Indian Ocean XVIe-XIXe s. 7 (1990), pp. 73-101

• 2007 “Expeditions, world exploration: Netherlands,” in: The Oxford companion to exploration, David Buisseret ed. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007, I, pp. 282-283.
• 2007 “Jan Huyghen van Linschoten,” in: The Oxford companion to exploration, David Buisseret ed. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007, I, pp. 472-473
• 2007 “Heeren XVII,” Encyclopedia of Western colonialism since 1450, Thomas Benjamin ed. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007, II, pp. 548-549
• 2007 “Jan Pietersz. Coen,” in: Encyclopedia of Western colonialism since 1450, Thomas Benjamin ed. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007, I, pp. 239-241
• 2007 “Indian Ocean slave trade,” in: Encyclopedia of Western colonialism since 1450, Thomas Benjamin ed. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007, III, pp. 1039-1041
• 2004 “Dutch East India Company,” in: Berkshire encyclopedia of world history, William H. McNeill, Jerry H. Bentley, David Christian, David Levinson, Heidi Roupp, and Judith P. Zinsser eds. 5 vols. Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2004, II, pp. 583-586
• 2004 “Dutch East Indies,” in: Europe, 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the early modern world, Jonathan Dewald ed. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004, II, pp. 189-195
• 1996 “Hendrik Jansen van Barrefelt,” in: The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, Hans J. Hillerbrand ed. 4 vols. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, I, pp. 124-125
• 1996 “Hugo Grotius,” in: The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, Hans J. Hillerbrand ed. 4 vols. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, II, pp. 197-198
• 1996 “Justus Lipsius,” in: The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, Hans J. Hillerbrand ed. 4 vols. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, II, pp. 426-428
• 1996 “Philippus Rovenius” in: The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, Hans J. Hillerbrand ed. 4 vols. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, III, pp. 453-454
• 1996 “Sasbout Vosmeer” in: The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, Hans J. Hillerbrand ed. 4 vols. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, IV, pp. 249-250

• 2011 (forthcoming) Gijs Kruijtzer, Xenophobia in seventeenth-century India. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2009. In: Journal of World History 22:1 (2011) (forthcoming)
• 2010 (forthcoming) Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben, Being ‘Dutch’ in the Indies: A history of creolisation and empire, 1500-1920. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. Geschichte.Transnational: Fachforum zur Geschichte des kulturellen Transfers und der transnationalen Verflechtungen in Europa und der Welt (early September 2010) (forthcoming) (See here. )
• 2009 A.G. Hopkins ed.. Global history: Interactions between the universal and the local. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. In: Journal of World History 20:3 (2009), pp. 435-439
• 2009 Shawkat M. Toorawa ed., The western Indian Ocean: Essays on islands and islanders. Port Louis: The Hassam Toorawa Trust, 2007. in: International Journal of Maritime History 21:1 (2009), pp. 374-376
• 2008 Wil O. Dijk, Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680. NIAS Monographs 102. Copenhagen: NIAS Press; Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2006. In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient/Journal d’Histoire Économique et Sociale de l’Orient 51:3 (2008), pp. 525-529
• 2008 Lennard Bes, Dutch sources on South Asia, c. 1600-1825. Volume 2: Archival guide to ? the repositories in the Netherlands other than the National Archives. ? New Delhi: Manohar, 2007. In: Itinerario 32:1 (2008), pp. 130-132
• 2008 Thomas R. Metcalf, Imperial connections: India in the Indian arena, 1860-1920. The California World History Library. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2007. In: Itinerario 32:3 (2008), pp. 119-121
• 2008 Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller eds., Women and slavery. Volume I: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the medieval North Atlantic. Athens; Ohio University Press, 2007. In: Itinerario 32:2 (2008), pp. 134-137
• 2008 Edward A. Alpers, Gwyn Campbell, and Michael Salman eds., Resisting bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. In: Itinerario 32:2 (2008), pp. 142-143
• 2007 Marc Kleijwegt ed., The faces of freedom: The manumission and emancipation of slaves in Old World and New World slavery. The Atlantic World 7. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. In: Itinerario 31:1 (2007), pp. 139-142
• 2007 Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton eds., Slavery and South Asian history. Bloomington and Indianapolis, in: Indiana University Press, 2006. In: Itinerario 31:3 (2007), pp. 169-172
• 2007 Sugate Bose, A hundred horizons: The Indian Ocean in the age of global empire. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. In: Itinerario 31:2 (2007), pp. 161-163
• 2007 P.C. Emmer, The Dutch slave trade, 1500-1850. Translated by Chris Emery. European Expansion and Global Interaction 5. Oxford and New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2006. In: Itinerario 31:1 (2007), pp. 130-133
• 2006 Gwyn Campbell ed., Abolition and its aftermath in the Indian Ocean, Africa and Asia. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. In: Itinerario 30:3 (2006), 123-125
• 2006 Julia Adams, The familial state: Ruling families and merchant capitalism in early modern Europe. The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture. Ithaca, NY; Cornell University Press, 2005. In: Itinerario 30:2 (2006), 162-166
• 2006 Elsbeth Locher-Scholten and Peter Rietbergen eds., Hof en adel: Aziatische vorsten en de VOC 1620-1720. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 223. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2004. In: Itinerario 30:2 (2006), 153-155
• 2006 Hendrik E. Niemeijer, Batavia: Een koloniale samenleving in de 17de eeuw. Amersfoort: Uitgeverij Balans, 2005. In: Itinerario 30:1 (2006), 159-162
• 2005 M.N. Pearson, The world of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800: Studies in economic, social and cultural history. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, Hampshire, 2005. In: Itinerario 29:3 (2005), pp. 133-136
• 2004 Holden Furber, Sinnappah Arasaratnam, and Kenneth McPherson. Maritime India. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. In: The Historian 67:3 (2005), pp. 552-553
• 2004 R.J. Barendse, The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean world of the seventeenth century. Armonk: East Gate Book, 2002. In: The Historian 66:3 (2004), pp. 604-605
• 2004 Michael N. Pearson, The Indian Ocean. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2003. In: Itinerario 28:1 (2004), pp. 92-95
• 2003 François Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën. 5 vols. in 8 books. Franeker: Uitgeverij Van Wijnen, 2002-2003. In: Itinerario 27:3/4 (2003), pp. 291-294
• 2002 Leo Akveld and Els M. Jacobs eds., De kleurrijke wereld van de VOC: Nationaal jubileumboek VOC, 1602-2002. Bussum: Uitgeverij THOTH, 2002. In: Itinerario 27:2 (2003), pp. 155-158
• 2003 Jos Gommans, Mughal warfare: Indian frontiers and highroads to empire. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. In: Itinerario 27:1 (2003), pp. 117-121
• 2003 Jos Gommans, Mughal warfare: Indian frontiers and highroads to empire. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. In: Journal of Early Modern History 7:1/2 (2003), pp. 172-178
• 2002 Nicholas B. Dirks, Castes of mind: Colonialism and the making of modern India. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. In: Itinerario 26:2 (2002), pp. 150-153
• 2002 H.W. van Santen, VOC-dienaar in India: Geleynssen de Jongh in het land van de Groot-Mogol. Franeker: Uitgeverij Van Wijnen, 2001. In: Itinerario 26:1 (2002), pp. 167-169
• 2001 Jos Gommans, Lennart Bes, and Gijs Kruijtzer eds., Dutch sources on South Asia, c. 1600-1825. Volume 1: Bibliography and archival guide to the National Archives at the Hague (the Netherlands). Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2001. In: Itinerario 25:3/4 (2001), pp. 230-233

• 2009 Discussion Leader, “Max Havelaar”, American Historical Association, 123rd Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 2-5, 2009
• 2008 Co-chair, Transoceanic Dialogues Seminar, Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), Sixth Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, NY, May 22-24, 2008
• 2006 Commentator, Concluding Session, Contingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World, Cape Town, South Africa, December 17-20, 2006
• 2006 Chair/Moderator, Roundtable “The mission braudelienne: The global quest for early modern parallel Mediterraneans,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Sixth Biennial Meeting, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, February 3-4, 2006
• 2006 Chair, Panel “Sailing, spying, and singing in Portugal’s ‘State of India’,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Sixth Biennial Meeting, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, February 3-4, 2006
• 2005 Participant, “Global Migration History Conference,” Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands, December 16-17, 2005
• 2002 Moderator, “Institutions and culture in world history,” Mid-Atlantic World History Association (MAWHA), Seventh Annual Meeting, Madison, NJ, October 11-12, 2002
• 2002 Chair, Panel “Translations and conversions,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Expansion, Fourth Biennial Meeting, San Marino, CA, February 15-16, 2002
• 2000 Member Constitution Committee, Mid-Atlantic World History Association (MAWHA), Fall 2000 Participant, “World 2000 Conference on Teaching World History and Geography,” Austin, TX, February 11-12, 2000
• 2000 Organizer, Panel: “Religious communities in early modern Asia,” American Historical Association 114th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 6-9, 2000
• 2000 Contributor, Session on “New” Imperialism for World History Association-College Board Summer Institutes, “Developing a New Teaching Field: World History for the 21st Century,” series of regional workshops for high-school and college teachers, October 1999-April 2000
• 1999 Co-chair, Program Committee, Mid-Atlantic World History Association (MAWHA), Fourth Annual Meeting, SUNY at Fredonia, NY, October 1-2, 1999
• 1999 Chair, Panel “Standards and assessment,” Mid-Atlantic World History Association (MAWHA), Fourth Annual Meeting, SUNY at Fredonia, NY, October 1-2, 1999

• 2011 (forthcoming) “Dutch sources in Asian Studies: India”, International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)/Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Joint Conference in Celebration of “70 Years of Asian Studies”, Honolulu, HI, March 31-April 3, 2011
• 2010 “Aquatic Circulations: The Indian Ocean and the global worlds of ocean slave trades, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries”, American Historical Association, 124th Annual Meeting, January 2010, San Diego, January 7-10,2010
• 2009 “Max Havelaar; The call heard ‘round the world”, American Historical Association, 123rd Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 2-5, 2009
• 2008 “Conversations across boundaries: The hundred horizons of the Indian Ocean world”, Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), Sixth Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, NY, May 22-24, 2008
• 2007 “Freedom and slavery: The Dutch Republic, the VOC world, and the debate over the ‘world’s oldest trade’”, The Pearson Prentice Hall Seminar Series in Global History, Tufts University, Medford, MA, October 15, 2007
• 2007 “Freedom and slavery: The Dutch Republic, the VOC world, and the debate over the ‘world’s oldest trade’”, History Department Workshop, Fredonia, NY, September 26, 2007
• 2007 “Freedom and enslavement: The Dutch Golden Age and the Indian Ocean world,” The Dutch Golden Age and the World, Columbia University, New York, NY, March 30-31, 2007
• 2006 “Final session: Comparisons and ways forward,” Contingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World, Cape Town, South Africa, December 17-20, 2006
• 2006 “A work of compassion?: The Dutch slavery debate in the seventeenth century,” Contingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World, Cape Town, South Africa, December 17-20, 2006
• 2006 “Indian Ocean studies and the ‘new thalassology’: Past, present, future,” Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean, Indian Ocean Project, Leiden University and University of Technology, Sydney, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 25-27, 2006
• 2006 “Dutch and Spanish imperialisms in global context,” The Pearson Prentice Hall Seminar Series in Global History, Tufts University, Medford, MA, April 7, 2006
• 2006 “The mission braudelienne: The global quest for early modern parallel Mediterraneans,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Sixth Biennial Meeting, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, February 3-4,2006
• 2005 “Parallel developments across early modern Afro-Eurasia, 1500-1700,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, November 7, 2005
• 2005 “Dutch slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean basin in the seventeenth century,” Conversations in World History Series, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 2005
• 2005 “’A work of compassion?’ Dutch slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean world, 1600-1700,” Fredonia Forum, Fredonia, NY, March 4, 2005
• 2004 “World together, worlds apart: The Dutch East India Company in the early modern Indian Ocean, 1500-1800,”
  Forum on European Expansion and Global Expansion, Fifth Biennial Meeting, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI, February 19-21, 2004
• 2003 “Dutch trade and empire in the western Indian Ocean world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,” Country Trade and European Empire in the Arabian Seas: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Leiden, The Netherlands, October 9-11, 2003
• 2003 “Time, space, and interaction: Traveling cultures in the early modern Indian Ocean world,” Rivalry and Conflict: European Traders and Asian Trading Networks, 16th and 17th Century, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, June 23-26, 2003
• 2003 “The Dutch slave trade in the seventeenth-century Indian Ocean world system,” Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges, Washington, D.C., February 13-15, 2003
• 2002 “Weapons of the weak: Slavery and slave resistance in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth century,” Mid-Atlantic World History Association, Seventh Annual Meeting, Madison, NJ, October 11-12, 2002
• 2002 “Bullion against textiles: The Dutch East India Company's trade in seventeenth-century southeast India,” Forum
  on European Expansion and Global Expansion, Fourth Biennial Meeting, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA,
  February 15-16, 2002
• 2002 “Global process, regional patterns: ‘New’ imperialism in the Witwatersrand, East Sumatra, and the Yucatán, 1870-1914,” American Historical Association, 116th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 3-6, 2002
• 2001 “’The world's oldest trade:’ The Dutch Indian Ocean slave trade in the seventeenth century,” International Conference on Slavery, Unfree Labour and Revolt in Asia and the Indian Ocean Region, Avignon, France, October 4-6, 2001
• 2001 “The modern world system: Two hundred, five hundred, or five thousand years?,” Mini-Conference on Globalization: Global Studies in the 21st Century, Fredonia, NY, September 21-22, 2001
• 2000 “Numbers from nowhere?: Dutch slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean,” World History Association, Tenth Annual International Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 28-July 1, 2001
• 2000 “’New’ or ‘high’ imperialism, 1870-1914: Process and patterns,” Mid-Atlantic World History Association, Fifth Annual Meeting, Lincroft, NJ, October 13-14, 2000
• 2000 “Suffering in silence: Dutch slave trade in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth century,” World History Association, Ninth Annual International Conference, Boston, MA, June 22-25, 2000
• 2000 “’A work of compassion?:’ The Dutch slave trade in the Indian Ocean, 1640-1700,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Third Biennial Meeting, St. Augustine, FL, February 17-19, 2000
• 2000 “Fishing in troubled waters: The Christian Paravas in southeast India in the seventeenth century,” American Historical Association, 114th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 6-9, 2000
• 1999 “Bibliographic and teaching resources in world history: A review,” Mid-Atlantic World History Association, Fourth Annual Meeting, Fredonia, NY, October 1-2, 1999
• 1999 “Cross-cultural encounters in the early modern world, 1520-1820,” World History Association, Eighth Annual International Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 24-26, 1999
• 1999 “Between the devil and the deep blue sea: The Christian Paravas, a ‘Portuguese’ client-community in 17th-century southeast India,” Crossing Boundaries: Europe Encounters New Worlds: An International Conference in Celebration of the Quincentenary of Cabral’s Voyage to Brazil, Coimbra, Portugal, May 26-29, 1999
• 1999 “The temporal and spiritual conquest of the Fishery Coast: The Portuguese-Dutch struggle for control over the Parava community in the 17th Century,” The Evolution of Portuguese Asia: Quincentenary Reflections, Charleston, SC, March 18-20, 1999