Stuart Schwartz

Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University and Chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies. A leading scholar of colonial Latin America, he received his PhD from Columbia University and specializes in Brazilian history and Early Modern global expansion.

His extensive publications examine:

• Slavery and plantation societies in colonial Brazil
• Religious tolerance in the Iberian Atlantic world
• Environmental history of Caribbean natural disasters
• Indigenous-peasant rebellions and resistance

Current projects include a social history of Caribbean hurricanes and a study of Portugal's independence movement within the crisis of the Iberian Atlantic (1620-1670). Professor Schwartz has authored award-winning books including 'Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society' and edited the Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the Americas.