Dr. Benjamin N. Narvaez

Assistant Professor of History
Office location: Neville 101B
Office phone: 864-833-8346
Email: bnnarvaez@presby.edu

Research fields: Modern Latin America, Chinese Diaspora, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Comparative History

Teaching fields: Latin America, Race and Ethnicity, Social Revolution, U.S.-Latin American Relations

I received my B.A. in history and Spanish from Grinnell College in 2002. I took these two interests to the University of Texas at Austin where I received my M.A. in 2004 and my Ph.D. in Latin American history in 2010. My research has focused primarily on the experience of Chinese indentured laborers in nineteenth-century Cuba and Peru and their role in the transition from slavery to free labor in both societies.

Before joining PC, I taught courses on Latin American history at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and at the University of Texas at Austin. My courses include colonial Latin America, modern Latin America, race and ethnicity in Latin America, Cuban history, U.S.-Latin American relations, and social revolutions in Latin America.

Although I am now far from my original home in Minnesota and my beloved Minnesota Vikings, I am delighted to be in South Carolina. What attracted me so much to PC was the chance to work at a small liberal arts college that reminds me of my undergraduate alma mater.