Abel Alves :: Profile

Publication
Humanity's Place in Nature, 1863-1928: Horror, Curiosity and the Expeditions of Huxley, Wallace, Blavatsky and Lovecraft (2/15/2008)

Publication
Baroque Consilience: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Theology, Natural Philosophy, and Feminism (6/22/2007)

Publication
Mead: A Study in Human Culutre's Interaction with the Natural Environment and Other Animals (6/15/2006)

Publication
Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico (10/30/1996)

Abel Alves

Associate Professor of History

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Department of History
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

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Teaching and Research Specialties
Colonial Latin America, early modern studies, ethological approaches to history

Biography
Dr. Alves is currently the Assistant Chair of the History Department. The author of Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethnology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico, and articles in the Sixteenth Century Journal and other publications, Abel Alves is the first recipient of the Miriam Chrisman Award of the Society for Reformation Research. In 1997, he received Ball State's Hurley Goodall Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2000, he was awarded BSU's Lawhead Award for teaching in the University Core Curriculum.