Hyfforddwyd Stefan yn hanes tramor Portiwgal ar Raglen Vasco da Gama (1993-8), wedi’i hariannu gan lywodraeth Portiwgal, yn Istituto Europeo Universitario yn Fiesole, Yr Eidal. Mae wedi darlithio ym Mhrifysgol Canol Ewrop yn Budapest (1998-2000) ac ym Mhrifysgol Brown yn yr UDA (2001-4). Mae wedi cyhoeddi pedwar llyfr a thros hanner cant o erthyglau. Mae wrth ei fodd yn darllen ieithoedd Ewropeaidd!
Dal Cadair Vasco da Gama Hanes Tramor Portiwgal, Prifysgol Brown, UDA, 2001-4; Grant ymchwil Leverhulme Mawrth 2020 tan fis Mawrth 2021 i gynhyrchu llyfr am gyfreslun wal arddull ddarddullaidd Bwylaidd i ddathlu rhinweddau dinesig a llwyddiannau economaidd Danzig.
Portugal Índico: sources and critical essays on the Portuguese presence in South Asia in the colonial period, rhifyn arbennig o Itinerario, 2007; Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies, the Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640-1720 (Brill, 2010); Reinterpreting Indian Ocean Worlds (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011); Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the late seventeenth century (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).
Cymhorthdal Cyhoeddiadau Scuolodi, 2006; Grant Cymdeithas Archwilio’r Aifft, 2006-7; Gwobr Gladys Kreble Delmas, 2013, 2018; y 3ydd wobr yng nghystadleuaeth ysgrifennu traethawd Hwngareg Prifysgol Debrecen ar gyfer tramorwyr “Mit jelent számomra a magyar kultúra?”, 2017.
Cyfranogydd symudedd addysgu Erasmus, yn Universidade Nova de Portugal yn 2009 a 2018; Prifysgol Karl Franzens, Graz 2013, 2015, 2016; Sveučiliste Zadar, 2019; rhwng mis Hydref 2020 a mis Chwefror 2021, rwy’n wykładowca wizytujący yn yr Instytut Historiczny, Prifysgol Warsaw, lle byddaf yn darparu 60 awr o ddarlithio, yn annerch seminar doethurol ac yn rhoi darlith gyhoeddus.
In 1500, European exploration and colonisation of the rest of the world was only in its infancy. America, two continents North and South, had been unknown to Europeans until just eight years previously. Most of it was still unmapped by Europeans, as were large parts of the rest of the world. By 1800, on the other hand, it was possible to construct a recognisable modern version of a world map. Europeans had explored, colonised, and resettled huge swathes of America in the first instances. They had killed or displaced millions of Native Americans in the process, wiping out whole civilisations, and they had enslaved 12 million or more Africans in that same process, inflicting immense damage on African societies. Europeans were in the early stages of colonising large parts of Africa and Asia too by 1800. And yet, advances in science had transformed human understanding of the universe, of the world, and indeed of ourselves. This was connected through the Renaissance in art, culture, and politics as well as science, to enormous changes in the structure of polities and societies. The early modern era perhaps saw the invention not only of modern empires, but of large, centralised modern states. Also, the Renaissance and then Enlightenment changed the way people and states interacted. Arguably, the early modern period represents the transition period between an era of medieval hierarchy and the origins of modern social and political democracy. Essentially, the aim of the module, through your lectures, seminars, and independent reading and thinking, is to give you a sense of the connections between these places and their histories, highlighting that the increasing inter-connection between them is itself a feature of the early modern period. You¿ll also get a broad sense of how the world as a whole changed between 1500 and 1800.
How do historians study the past? Why do their accounts of the past differ, and why do they change over time? This module will help you to understand the various concepts, methods, and approaches that academic historians use when writing history and generating historical explanations. By the end of it, you will understand how and why professional historians disagree on many topics, and you will be equipped to evaluate competing interpretations of the same past events and processes. The module also trains you in the fundamental skills required to study history as an undergraduate, and gives you an opportunity to learn more about the interests and expertise of the history staff you¿ll be working with at Swansea. It will help you make the transition from being taught history at school or college to studying history at university, and it will introduce you to the many different kinds of history you can explore in the course of your degree.
This course will provide an introduction to the history of Spain, Portugal and their empires in the early modern period. Students will come away with a broad knowledge of the political, cultural, religious and social history of Iberia during its period of greatest influence. We will begin by surveying the political history of Castile, Aragon and Portugal, seeking to understand the complex series of inheritances and political manoeuvres that created Spain. After looking at Early Modern Iberian imperial government, we will turn to the area¿s social and intellectual history. Here we will discuss Portuguese and Spanish culture, literature and art, as well as the intense religious fervour that launched both a global missionary effort and the Inquisition. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to studying the Spanish and Portuguese empires, both in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Here, our perspective will be decidedly metropolitan as we seek to understand how Iberian social and political institutions were exported overseas. We will also discuss the problems encountered by the Iberian monarchy as it attempted to manage the world¿s first truly global empire and faced the problem of dynastic decline.
'Globalisation' is a phenomenon that has caused a good deal of recent debate, though the movement of goods, people, bullion and services from one corner of the planet to another is nothing new. In this course, students shall investigate in some depth the role of long-distance commerce in 'disenclaving' (to use a French term) the world in the early modern period, the forms this trade took and some of its effects. The elaborate paths luxury goods wove across the planet seem remarkably unimpeded by either the speed of communications (it could take 16-23 months to send a consignment of silk from Nagasaki in Japan to Amsterdam), the high risks of banditry on the caravan routes or shipwreck at sea, and the transmission often via unreliable and hostile intermediaries. At the same time, the instruments of commerce - insurance, credit, speculation and derivative trading that went on in the European trading exchanges like London and Amsterdam - suggest a remarkably modern global system was already on its feet.
The History dissertation is a free-standing, 40-credit module that runs across both semesters of Level Three. Candidates conduct research upon a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of staff teaching for the degrees in History, and concerning a topic that falls within staff research and teaching interests.
Ymgynghorydd cyhoeddus ar gyfer ailwampio ac adnewyddu Oriel Glynn Vivian, Abertawe, 2014. Rwy’n adolygu llawysgrifau’n gyson ar gyfer amrywiaeth eang o gyhoeddwyr a chyfnodolion ysgolheigaidd, a phan mae cyfle, rwy’n cyhoeddi adolygiadau o lyfrau (28 hyd yma).
Medi 2017
Cymdeithas Hakluyt, Dociau Chatham
Tachwedd 2018
XVIII International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science, Ponta Delgada, Azores
Medi 2019
Cymdeithas Asiaidd Frenhinol, Llundain
Tachwedd 2020
Lagos
