Skip to main content

Nathan Gill

Status: Ph.D. Candidate and Associate Research Professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, in Ecuador

Adviser: Miguel La Serna

Graduate Email: nhgill@unc.edu

Education

B.A. Philosophy and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 2003
M.A. History of Political Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, 2009

Research Interests

I study Latin American environmental history. My dissertation focuses on changing human-environment relationships and systems of free and forced labor in the Ecuadorian Andes in the longue durée.

Some Notable Publications

  • “Ecuador Habló: La Minería es Peor que Correa.” Mediato, Feb. 19, 2018.
  • “Pope Apologizes for Church Abuse in Conquest of the Americas.” Bloomberg News, July 9, 2015.
  • “White-Bellied Spider Monkey Losing to $18 Billion of Oil.” Bloomberg News, Sept. 9, 2013.

    • Courses Offered

  • HIST 51: Latin American Revolutions
  • HIST 142: Latin American Colonial Rule
  • HIST 141: Modern Latin American History
  • HIST 248: Guerrillas and Counterinsurgencies in Latin America
  • HIST 278: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

    • 554A Pauli Murray Hall*
    102 Emerson Dr., CB #3195
    Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

    *Though the History Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton’s intellectually dishonest historical and archival work promoted white supremacy. In contrast, Pauli Murray marshaled unassailable evidence and analysis in the service of racial and gender equality. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall in place of Hamilton Hall. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.
    phone: 919.962.2115
    fax: 919.962.1403
    email: history@unc.edu
    Black and White   Black and White   Black and White   Black and White