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.
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
