Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His research spans global environmental history, the history of language and cultural organisms, early colonial Mesoamerican studies, and the history of exploration. He holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and has held visiting positions at institutions like the University of Virginia and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

His research interests include primatology history, colonial societies, and intellectual history, with a focus on themes like empires, environmental change, and religious and political dynamics across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. He teaches undergraduate courses on global history, environmental history, and Columbus, and supervises graduate students in early modern colonial studies.

Awarded the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio (Spain) and multiple Cátedra España fellowships, he has also received the World History Association Book Prize and the Mountbatten Foundation Award. His major grants include funding from the Fundación del Pino (2008-10 and 2020-21) and the Reina Victoria Eugenia Distinguished Visiting Chair (2010).

• Education: D.Phil., University of Oxford
• Recent Projects: Current research on primatology history and global engineering in the Spanish empire.
• Publications: Author of The Oxford History of the World (2023), Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan (2022), and Our America (2014), among others.