Abel Alves
Abel Alves
Professor of History
Curriculum Vitae

Phone:765-285-8729

Room:BB 216


Teaching and Research Specialties
Colonial Latin America, Early Modern Europe, ethological approaches to history, animal studies 

Biography
Abel Alves is the author of The Animals of Spain: An Introduction to Imperial Perceptions and Human Interaction with Other Animals, 1492-1826 (Brill, 2011), Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico (Greenwood, 1996), “Pets and Domesticated Animals in the Atlantic World” (Oxford Bibliographies, 2017), and articles in The Sixteenth Century Journal and other publications. Alves was the first recipient of the Miriam Chrisman Award of the Society for Reformation Research. In 1997, he received Ball State's Hurley Goodall Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2000, he was awarded BSU's Lawhead Award for teaching in the University Core Curriculum. In 2016, he was invited to present on his research at University College London’s international symposium “Animals in Visual Hispanism.”


Course Schedule
Course No. Section Times Days Location
World Civilization 1 151 01 1230 - 1345 T R BB, room 100
Senior Seminar 470 01 0930 - 1045 T R NQ, room 302
Special Studies 650 01 0000 - 0000
Thesis 698 14 0000 - 0000