Gabriel Paquette
Gabriel Paquette is Professor of History at the University of Maine. He currently holds the Adelaide C. and Alan L. Bird Professorship in History. His research explores aspects of European, Latin American, and International History.
Paquette’s first book analyzes the intellectual origins of the reform program undertaken by the Spanish Crown in the Spain and Spanish America during the second half of the eighteenth century. His second book is a history of the Portuguese Atlantic World, c. 1770-1850, focusing on the independence of Brazil. His third book is a synthetic and synoptic history of the Western European “seaborne” empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Paquette has edited or co-edited books and thematic issues of scholarly journals on the following subjects: late eighteenth-century enlightened reform; European-Latin American relations in the nineteenth century; connections between Romanticism and Liberalism; a new translation of an important text in the history of political and economic thought (Jovellanos’s 1795 Report on the Agrarian Law); and Spain’s involvement in the American Revolution.
His articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Historical Journal, the English Historical Review, the Journal of Latin American Studies, the European History Quarterly, and the History of European Ideas. Paquette also contributes on occasion to publications aimed at a wider audience, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Times Literary Supplement, History Today, Inside Higher Ed, Times Higher Education, The Guardian, Público, and the Revista de Occidente.
Since joining UMaine, he has served in a variety of leadership roles, including Interim Provost, Senior Associate Provost, and Acting Director of the University Press. He previously held a variety of research, teaching and administrative leadership positions at Oregon, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge, Harvard, and Wesleyan. Paquette holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
