Education
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 A.B. History of Science, Harvard University
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M.A. History, Princeton University
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Ph.D. History, Princeton University
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Tenure Track Appointments
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Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 08/2006-
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PostDoctoral Appointments
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Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California, 08/2004-06/2006
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Daniela Bleichmar holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Art History and Spanish and Portuguese. She was trained as a cultural historian of early modern science, specializing in the history of the natural sciences in Europe and the Spanish Americas in the period 1500-1800. Her work focuses on the production and uses of visual material in science, the history of collecting and display, the history of the book, and the history of the Spanish empire. She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled Visible Empire. Colonial Botany and Visual Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World, in which she discusses the status and uses of images in eighteenth-century natural history; the importance of visual material in training the expert eyes and skilled hands of naturalists; the role of print culture in establishing a common vocabulary of scientific illustration; the interaction among visual evidence, textual evidence, and material evidence; and the ways in which colonial naturalists and artists appropriated and transformed European models, producing hybrid, local representations.
Her research and teaching interests include the history of collecting and display; interactions between art and science; Iberia, the Spanish Americas, and the Atlantic World; colonialism and imperialism; print, books, and reading; scholarly practices; travel; and anatomy and medicine. At USC, she has taught undergraduate courses on the history of the book and reading, on visual and material culture in colonial Latin America and early modern Europe, and on artistic and cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia in the early modern world, as well as graduate seminars on the history of collecting and display and the history of the book.
Dr. Bleichmar is the author of several articles on visual culture and natural history in the Spanish empire and a co-editor of a volume of essays on the history of science, medicine, and technology in the Spanish and Portuguese empire, to be published by Stanford University Press in 2008. She is also working on two new projects, one on collecting in the Spanish Empire and the other on the interactions of global trade, print culture, and empiricism in the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
***** ON LEAVE ACADEMIC YEAR 2008-2009 *****
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Research Specialties
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Early Modern Visual and Material Culture, Early Modern Science, History of Collecting and Display, Spanish Empire/Colonial Latin American Art
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Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
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USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute,http://www.usc.edu/emsi
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Visual Studies Graduate Certificate,http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/visualstudies/
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USC-Getty Program in the History of Collecting and Display,http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/art_history/research_programs/collecting/index.html/
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Latin American Studies Initiative at USC,http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/latinamericanstudies/index.html
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Publications
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Book
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Bleichmar, Daniela; DeVos, Paula; Huffine, Kristin; and Sheehan, Kevin (Ed.).
(2008).
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires (1500-1800). Stanford University Press. You can read about this book here: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5358%20%20
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Book Chapter
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Bleichmar, D.
(2007).
Atlantic Competitions: Botanical Trajectories in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire. pp. 225-252. Science and Empire in the Atlantic World / Routledge.
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Bleichmar, D.
(2007).
Training the Naturalist’s Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect Global Visions and Local Blind Spots. pp. p. 166-190. Skilled Visions. Between Apprenticeship and Standards/Bergahn Books.
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Bleichmar, D.
(2007).
A Visible and Useful Empire: Visual Culture and Colonial Natural History in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World. Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires (1500-1800)/Stanford University Press.
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Bleichmar, D.
(2007).
Circulating Natural Knowledge in the Spanish Empire. Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution / / Mas alla de la Leyenda Negra: España y la Revolucion Cientifica/Soler.
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Bleichmar, D.
(2004).
Books, Bodies, and Fields: Sixteenth-Century Transatlantic Encounters with New World Materia Medica. pp. p. 83-99. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics/Pennsylvania University Press.
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Journal Article
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Bleichmar, D.
(2007).
Exploration in Print: Books and Botanical Travel from Spain to the Americas in the Late Eighteenth Century. Huntington Library Quarterly/Huntington Library.
Vol. vol. 70 (no. 1 (March 2007): 129-151)
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Bleichmar, D.
(2006).
Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science. Colonial Latin American Review/Taylor and Francis.
Vol. vol. 15 (no. 1 (June 2006): 81-104)
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Honors and Awards
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Honored by Smithsonian magazine as one of "America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences: 37 under 36." http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/bleichmar.html, 10/2007-
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Award for the best dissertation on Latin American visual culture 2004-2006, Association for Latin American Art, 1/2007-
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Short-Term Research Grant, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard University, 2007-
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USC-Del Amo Research Grant, 2007-
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Getty Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009
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Faculty Fellowship, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute,
Spring
2009
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Residency at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
Fall
2008
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USC "Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences" Research Grant, 7/2007-7/2008
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2007 Jerry Stannard Memorial Award for best article on early modern natural history or materia medica published by a young scholar, for "Books, Bodies, and Fields", 2007
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Franklin Pease Memorial Prize for best article published in the Colonial Latin American Review in 2005 and 2006, 2007
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Service to the Profession
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Professional Memberships
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College Art Association, 2006-
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History of Science Society, 1999-
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