Giuseppe Marcocci

I am an Official Fellow and Lecturer in History at Exeter College and Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Oxford. My research has mostly focused on religious history and the history of political culture. I have written on conversion and persecution of religious minorities in the Iberian kingdoms and their overseas possessions, Spanish and Portuguese debates over race and slavery, as well as the Iberian theories of empire and colonial authority across the Iberian globe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. My latest book The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas (OUP, 2020) reconstructs the transformation of historical writing in the age of exploration.

I am currently working on several projects, including a comparative study of political iconoclasm and visual dissent in the viceregal capital cities of Goa and Mexico City during the seventeenth century.

At Oxford, I am one of the convenors of the Iberian History Seminar.

For more information, please see my page on the History Faculty website.

I can be reached by email: giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk.