College of Humanities People
Daniel Reff, Professor
Department of Comparative Studies: http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/
430 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: reff.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-1485
Fax: 614-292-6707
Education:
Ph.D in Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
General Background:
Education
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
Teaching and ResearchDaniel Reff is an anthropologist and ethnohistorian of colonial Latin America with a particular interest in European and Indian relations and Spanish missionary texts. Professor Reff also has published on early Christianity in Europe and is currently researching the Jesuit mission enterprise in sixteenth-century Japan
His first book, Disease, Depopulation, and Culture in Northwestern New Spain, 1518-1764 (University of Utah Press, 1991), explores the dynamics of Jesuit and Indian relations in what is today northern Mexico and the American southwest. He is co-author of a critical edition of Andrés de Ribas, History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith (1645) (University of Arizona Press, 1999).
Professor Reff is completing a comparative study of missionary texts from early medieval Europe and colonial Latin America. He is also currently preparing a critical, English-language edition of a manuscript in Portuguese from 1585 in which the author, Luis Fois, S.J., wrote at length about the differences in European and Japanese cultures.
Ethnography
Religion
Colonialism and Post-colonialism
