Alejandra Dubcovsky
Assistant Professor
Office: HGS 2690
Phone: (203) 432-1377
Email: a.dubcovsky@yale.edu
Education
University of California, Berkeley B.A., 2005 (University Medalist)
Masters in Library and Information Science, San Jose State University, MLIS, 2010
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 2011
Research Interests
Colonial America, especially the American South and Spanish borderlands; History of Amerindians; the History of communication and information
Work in progress
Her current book project, tentatively titled Colonial Communication, Networks of Information in the American South from Pre-Contact to 1740, focuses on the acquisition and transmission of news in a pre-postal, pre-printing press colonial world
Alejandra Dubcovsky’s teaching and research focus on Early America, colonial interactions, and the history of information. Dubcovsky has presented her work at several major conferences, including Ethnohistory, the Annual Omohundro Institute Conference, and the South Historical Association. She has two future projects. The first is a comparative study of the role of language and interpreters in the colonial world. And the second is a history of the Tuscaroras.
Her awards and fellowships include the George H. Guttridge Prize, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies, the Librarians for Tomorrow Grant, the Research Fellowship for the Study of the Global South, and a grant from Center for Race and Gender (UC Berkeley).
