Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Neil Safier is the Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and most recently at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (University of Chicago Press, 2008; paperback edition, 2012), which was awarded the 2009 Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français d’Amérique. A Spanish translation La Medición del Nuevo Mundo, was released from Marcial Pons (Madrid) in 2016. Recipient of numerous research fellowships at libraries and archives, including the Huntington Library, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, he has a wide collection of published books and articles to his name, including essays in Isis, Book History, The Huntington Library Quarterly, Revista Brasileira de História, and Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. His current research relates to the environmental and ethnographic history of the Amazon River basin and the Atlantic world during the age of revolutions.