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Timothy D. Walker, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth >From GoanetWiki Timothy Walker (B.A., Hiram College, 1986; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University, 2001) is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and a visiting professor at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal. He is also a member of the graduate faculty of the U. Mass. Dartmouth Department of Portuguese Studies. Teaching fields include Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their empire, maritime history and European global colonial expansion. Walker is the recipient of a Fulbright dissertation fellowship to Portugal (1996), a doctoral research fellowship from the Portuguese Camões Institute (1995) and an NEH-funded American Institute for Indian Studies Professional Development Grant for post-doctoral work in India (2000-2002). Walker has also been a fellow of the Portuguese Orient Foundation (Fundação Oriente), the Luso-American Development Foundation, and has held a Wellcome Trust Travel Grant to the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London (2003). During the 2003-2004 academic year, Walker taught for the University of Pittsburgh Semester at Sea program. Current research topics focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, and include the adoption of colonial indigenous medicines by European science during the Enlightenment, slave trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, as well as commercial and cultural links between the Portuguese overseas colonies in Asia, Africa and the Americas. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
