David Wheat (Ph.D. Vanderbilt 2009) is a historian of Colonial Latin America and the early modern Iberian Atlantic world. His book Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 was published by University of North Carolina Press in 2016, on behalf of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Conference on Latin American History, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
