Laura Jarnagin Pang

laura jarnagin pang

Associate Professor Emerita
Division of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

biography

Dr. Laura Jarnagin Pang is an Associate Professor Emerita in the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (formerly the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies) at Colorado School of Mines.  At present, she lives in Evergreen, Colorado and is engaged in a long-term research and writing project tracing the evolutionary paths of transnational merchant networks from which an American commercial presence in Brazil emerged, ca. 1680-1820.

During her 23 years at Mines, she was a co-founder of an undergraduate minor in International Political Economy and a master’s program in International Political Economy of Resources with her husband, Professor Emeritus Eul-Soo Pang.  In addition to teaching courses in history and international political economy, she also served as division director for five years.  After retiring in December 2008, Dr. Pang spent 2010-12 in Singapore as a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) where she organized an international conference on five hundred years of the Portuguese presence in Southeast Asia and edited two volumes of conference papers.  Prior to moving to Colorado in 1986, she was an assistant professor in the Department of History at Auburn University at Montgomery.

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Education

  • PhD, Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, 1981
  • MA, Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University, 1977
  • Certificate, Portuguese Language, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal), 1973
  • BA, International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1973

Research

  • Current:  A book-length project tracing the evolutionary paths of transnational merchant networks from which an American commercial presence in Brazil emerged, ca. 1680-1820
  • Current and future:  A book-length project continuing the above inquiry by focusing on early-to-mid nineteenth-century American merchants in Brazil at Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro
  • Current:  Continuation of compiling a database utilizing nodegoat, a web-based data management, network analysis, and visualization environment developed in the Netherlands to visualize early nineteenth-century transatlantic merchant networks and commerce with reference to Brazil
  • Past:  Portuguese and Luso-Asian legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011
  • Past:  U.S. Confederate migration to Brazil
  • Past:  Brazilian planters’ organizations and clubs vis-à-vis the imperial state of Brazil, 1860s-1880s
  • Past:  The nobility of imperial Brazil

RECENT CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

  • February 2024. Presenter: “Developing a Baltimore Commercial Presence in Brazil: An Early Nineteenth Century Pernambuco Connection.” Transnational History Symposium: Baltimore & Latin America in the 19th Century. Stanford University (Department of History; Center for Latin American Studies; Urban Studies; and African and African American Studies), Stanford, California.
  • April 2018. Presenter: “Visualizing Early Nineteenth-Century Foreign Commercial Activity at Pernambuco.” Session 27: The Age of Revolution Meets the Age of Information: Digital Approaches to Regional and Atlantic History. Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 65th Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada.
  • April 2017. Chair and Commentator. Session 71: Travelers and Exiles: Post-U.S. Civil War Atlantic World Migrations. Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 64th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • March 2016. Presenter. “Early Nineteenth-Century American Merchants at Pernambuco and Their Transatlantic Networks.” Session 6: Merging Histories: Mercantile and Insurgent Agents of Change in the Age of Revolution. Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 63rd Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Contact

PO Box 2980
Evergreen, CO 80437
lpang@mines.edu

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

  • Laura Jarnagin, A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008 (hardback and paper), and 2013 (e-pub).
  • Laura Jarnagin, ed., Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Vol. 2, Culture and Identity in the Luso-Asian World: Tenacities & Plasticities. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.
  • Laura Jarnagin, “Introduction: The Qualitative Properties of Cultures and Identities,” in Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Vol. 2, Culture and Identity in the Luso-Asian World: Tenacities & Plasticities. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.
  • Laura Jarnagin, ed., Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Vol. 1, The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies of Engagement. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
  • Laura Jarnagin, “Introduction: Towards Clarity through Complexity,” in Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Vol. 1, The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies of Engagement. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
  • Eul-Soo Pang and Laura Jarnagin, “Mercosur: The Elusive Quest for Regional Integration,” in Mercosur Economic Integration Lessons for ASEAN, ASEAN Studies Centre Report No. 5. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • Laura Jarnagin, “Fitting In: Relocating Family and Capital within the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World-Economy: The Brazilian Connection,” chap. 4 in The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil, ed. Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995 (hardback and paper).  In translation in John D. Dawsey, Cyrus B. Dawsey, and James M. Dawsey, org.; Heitor Amílcar da Silveira Neto, ed.; and Paulo Wisling, trans., Americans: Imigrantes do Velho Sul no Brasil, Série Perspectivas Internacionais 2. Piracicaba, SP: UNIMEP, 2005.
  • Entries in Barbara A. Tennenbaum, ed., Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 5 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996:
    • Brazil: Organizations, “Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis — IBAMA.”
    • Brazil: Organizations: “National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform, Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária — INCRA.”
    • “Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro (1992).”
    • “Environmental Movements.”
    • “Lutzenberger, José Antônio.”