Rachel Stein

Biography

Rachel Stein is an academic librarian and cultural historian of early modern Spain, Portugal, and Hispanophone and Lusophone worlds. Her primary research interests are the history of the book, early modern Iberian empires, Iberian "globalization," critical librarianship, and library pedagogy.

Dr. Stein holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University; M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College; and B.A. in the College of Letters from Wesleyan University. Her doctoral research examined the printing of books on America, Africa, and Asia in 17th-century Lisbon, tracing global production networks across coordinates as diverse as Mexico City, Isla Margarita, Buenos Aires, Bahía, Antwerp, Madrid, and Goa. Dr. Stein's scholarship has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon-Rare Book School Fellowship in Critical Bibliography, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, and A Studio in the Woods. She has published book reviews and articles in The Journal of Early Modern History, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and Iberian Connections. She is an affiliated faculty member of the University of Virginia's Rare Book School and The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

Rachel Stein is currently Scholarly Engagement Librarian at Tulane University Libraries in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.