Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is an historian and William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto joined Notre Dame's History Department in 2009, after occupying chairs at Tufts University and the University of London (Queen Mary College). He spent most of his career teaching at Oxford, where he was an undergraduate and doctoral student. He has had visiting appointments at many universities and research institutes in Europe and the Americas, and has honorary doctorates from la Trobe University and the Universidad de los Andes. Among other distinctions, he has won the John Carter Brown Medal, the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum (UK), the Premio Nacional a Investigacion of the Sociedad Geografica Espanola, Soain's Premio Nacional de Grastonomia for his history of food, ant the Tercentenary Medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
His teaching interests include: Spanish history and the history of late medieval and early modern colonial societies, with some special attention to cartography, maritime subjects, exploration, and cultural exchanges. In recent years, he has made contributions to global history, understood as the study of genuinely global experiences, and to environmental history, especially on a global scale. He now works on the history of cultural organisms - trying to fit human and non-human cultural creatures, especially apes, into a single frame refrence.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto joined Notre Dame's History Department in 2009, after occupying chairs at Tufts University and the University of London (Queen Mary College). He spent most of his career teaching at Oxford, where he was an undergraduate and doctoral student. He has had visiting appointments at many universities and research institutes in Europe and the Americas, and has honorary doctorates from la Trobe University and the Universidad de los Andes. Among other distinctions, he has won the John Carter Brown Medal, the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum (UK), the Premio Nacional a Investigacion of the Sociedad Geografica Espanola, Soain's Premio Nacional de Grastonomia for his history of food, ant the Tercentenary Medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
His teaching interests include: Spanish history and the history of late medieval and early modern colonial societies, with some special attention to cartography, maritime subjects, exploration, and cultural exchanges. In recent years, he has made contributions to global history, understood as the study of genuinely global experiences, and to environmental history, especially on a global scale. He now works on the history of cultural organisms - trying to fit human and non-human cultural creatures, especially apes, into a single frame refrence.
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