Residence New Orleans, Louisiana Citizenship Canadian-American | Name Kris Lane | |
Born April 7, 1967
Creston, British Columbia, Canada ( 1967-04-07 ) Fields Colonial Latin American history Institutions Tulane University
College of William and Mary Alma mater University of Colorado Boulder
University of Minnesota Thesis Mining the margins: precious metals extraction and forced labor regimes in the Audiencia of Quito, 1534-1821 (1996) | ||
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Kris Lane (born April 7, 1967) is a Canadian–American Fulbright scholar, researcher, professor, and author. His areas of academic teaching and research focus on colonial Latin American history. He has written and edited several books and articles on slavery, witchcraft, headhunting, mining, human trafficking, and piracy in the Andes Mountains of South America. He is the Frances V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He previously taught Latin American History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is the General Editor of the Colonial Latin American Review and a member of the Board of Editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review.
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- Early life
- Academics
- Writing and editing
- Honors and awards
- Boards and memberships
- Published works
- References
Early life
Kris Eugene Lane was born on April 7, 1967, in Creston, British Columbia, Canada. He is the son of Rustin and Grace (née Fletcher) Lane. He was raised in Colorado, Texas, and British Columbia, Canada, with his older brother, Kenneth. Lane is married to Pamela (née Johnson) and they have one daughter. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder, graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor's degree in History and Latin American Studies. In 1996, he earned his Ph.D in History from the University of Minnesota.
Academics
In 1997, Lane joined the teaching staff of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where he taught history. During his employment, he was honored as one of the school's inaugural recipients of the Joseph Plumeri Award, which recognizes the university's faculty for excellence in teaching, research, and community service. He has also served as a visiting professor at the National University of Colombia and the University of Leiden.
Writing and editing
Lane has traveled extensively in South and Central America and has written, edited, and collaborated in presenting his research on piracy, slavery, gold mining, headhunting, and witchcraft in colonial Ecuador and Colombia. As of 2010, he serves as the General Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Colonial Latin American Review. He also edited Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's books Indian Militia and Description of the Indies and Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests, following their translations from Spanish. Published in Madrid, the two works were training manuals for conquistadors, written in 1599 by de Vargas Machuca as an extension of his military service in Italy and South America.