Joseph M. H. Clark (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
Witchcraft and Contraband in the Early Modern Caribbean
University of Kentucky
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25
Joseph M.H. Clark drafted two chapters of his work in progress, Witchcraft and Contraband in the Early Modern Caribbean, which he presented, respectively, at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in November 2024 and at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in March 2025.
He completed a draft of an allied article project, entitled “‘In the Shadow of Eternal Spring’: Local Climates and Central Disturbances in the Caribbean’s ‘Little Ice Age’,” which he presented at the University of California, Los Angeles in April 2025 and is now revising for inclusion in a special journal issue.
He also drafted a book proposal for a subsequent project, The Many Lives of Pedro Angola: Captivity, Piracy, and Freedom in the Early Modern Caribbean, which evolved from research conducted while at NHC.
In addition to these projects, Clark completed final revisions on his chapter, “The Limit of Afro-Mexico: Archival Abundance and a Fragmented Diaspora,” which will appear in the volume Coming Into View: Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Theodore W. Cohen and Nicole von Germeten (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, November 2025).