Rachel Stein
Rachel Stein has been Research & Instruction Librarian at The Latin American Library at Tulane University since 2018. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University. Her doctoral research examined the printing of books on America, Africa, and Asia in seventeenth-century Lisbon, tracing global production networks across coordinates as diverse as Mexico City, Isla Margarita, Buenos Aires, Bahia, Antwerp, Portuguese Morocco, and Goa. She has published reviews in The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America and The Journal of Early Modern History and has a forthcoming article on integrating second language and special collections pedagogy. Rachel has been a Senior Fellow with the Andrew W. Mellon-Rare Book School Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography since 2014. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Portugal).