Rebecca Earle

Rebecca Earle FBA (born 1964) is a historian, specialising in the history of food and colonial and 19th-century Spanish America. She is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick.^[1][2][3] She is married to Matt Western, MP for Warwick and Leamington.

Biography

Earle completed her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College in 1986. She then undertook three successive post-graduate degrees at the University of Warwick: MSc in Maths (1987), MA in history (1990), and PhD in history (1994).^[1]

Her 2008 book The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference on Latin American History.^[4] Earle's 2013 book The Body of the Conquistador. Food, Race, and the Colonial Experience in South America, 1492-1700 won the prize outright in 2013.^[5]

Earle has written articles about food history for The Independent,^[6] The Conversation, BBC History Magazine, and The Sunday Telegraph.^[7]

Earle was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.^[2]

She is a member of the Editorial Board for Past & Present.^[8]

Select publications

• Earle, R. 2020 Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. Cambridge University Press.
• Earle, R. 2012. The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700. Cambridge University Press.
• Earle, R. 2008. The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930. Duke University Press.
• Earle, R. 2000. Spain and the Independence of Colombia. University of Exeter Press. Spanish Translation: España y la independencia de Colombia, Banco de la República (Bogotá, 2014).

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