About
Rich Lizardo is a postdoctoral fellow in the Honors College who focuses on the history of early-modern Spain. He received his B.A. in history at Yale University and his history Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include the study of poverty, charity, and poor laws; theories and practices of punishment; Spanish empire and colonialism; national, cultural, religious, and ethnic identities; and intellectual, religious, and cultural history.
He has edited, copyedited, and/or translated (from Spanish and Portuguese into English) academic articles, chapters, and monographs for various scholars. He has served as an historical consultant for a Marvel animated television series. He has coedited a volume on early-modern hospitals, titled “Hospitales durante el Antiguo Régimen. Instituciones benéfico-asistenciales, siglos XV–XIX,” with Palermo University Press. And he is currently coediting a volume titled “The Contractual Monarchy of the Iberian World, c. 1500–1700: Negotiating Power and Status in the Spanish Empire,” under contract with Brill Publishing. Finally, his other research projects include two forthcoming chapters: one on religious confraternities run by ethnic minorities in the early-modern Iberian world; another on the role of picaresque literature in 17th-century Spanish governance.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Early-modern Spain
- Spanish empire
- Colonial Latin America
- Poverty, charity, and poor laws
- Theories and practices of punishment
- National, cultural, religious, and ethnic identities
- Intellectual, religious, and cultural history