Emily Berquist
Emily Berquist Soule (born Washington, D.C.) is a historian of Colonial Latin America and the Spanish Empire. Life. She grew up in Stratford, Connecticut and attended Vassar College, where she studied under James H. Merrell and graduated cum laude in History and Hispanic Studies. She studied Colonial Latin American History at the University of Texas at Austin, earning her Ph.D. there in 2007, studying under Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Susan Deans-Smith, among others. She is presently Associate Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. In 2013, she appeared as a historical consultant on the Travel  Channel artifact hunting show "Digfellas." In March 2014, her first book, "The Bishop's Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru", was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, as part of the "Early Modern Americas" series, edited by Peter Mancall. Awards (selected). 2014-2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Award 2010-2011 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 2010-2011 Dibner Fellowship in the History of Science, Huntington Library 2003-2004 Fulbright Fellowship