Jason Dyck

Contract Instructor

B.A. (Brock), M.A. (Queen’s), M.L.I.S. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto)
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Research Interests

Early modern Spanish world
Colonial Latin America
Jesuit and mendicant missionaries
Sacred history (chronicles, devotional histories, hagiographies)

Select Awards and Fellowships

2020 Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Award, Latin American & Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico
2020 Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship, Saint Louis University Libraries
2016 Archibald Hanna Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
2016 Short-Term Fellowship, Newberry Library
2015 Msgr. Francis J. Weber Fellowship, Huntington Library
2015 Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Fellowship, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
2013 Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library

Select Publications

Articles and Chapters

“Native Evangelists in Northwestern New Spain.” In Reframing Reformation: Understanding Religious Difference in Early Modern Europe, ed. Nicholas Terpstra, 215–234. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2020.

“Bastions of the Virgin: Francisco de Florencia’s Marian Cartography of Mexico City.” Colonial Latin American Review 28, no. 3 (2019): 336–366.

“La Florida in the Creole Imaginary: The Frontier of New Spain in Francisco de Florencia’s Historia de la Provincia (1694).” Florida Historical Quarterly 96, no. 3 (2018): 271–299.

“La parte censurada de la Historia de la Provincia de Francisco de Florencia.” Estudios de Historia Novohispana 44, no. 1 (2011): 141–188.

Articles (Co-Authored)

“Hyperdulia Americana: Sacred History and Devotional Landscapes.” Co-authored with Rosario Inés Granados Salinas. Colonial Latin American Review 28, no. 3 (2019): 295–311.

Review Essays

“Missionaries in the Early Modern Spanish World.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 20, no. 2 (2019). doi:10.1353/cch.2019.0019.

“Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and the Mexican Archive.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 18, no. 1 (2017). doi:10.1353/cch.2017.0004.

“Indigenous and Black Intellectuals in the Lettered City.” Latin American Research Review 50, no. 2 (2015): 256–266.

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-0125