DR HEATHER DALTON

Overview

Heather Dalton is a Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Since her PhD was awarded in 2008, Heather has been associated with the Universities of Melbourne and Sheffield, and is a member of The Cabot Project at the University of Bristol. The primary focus of her research is merchant networks in the fifteenth and sixteenth century Atlantic.

2012
- Research Book Chapters
  - Into Speyne to selle for Slavys: English, Spanish, and Genoese Merchant Networks and their Involvement with the 'Cost of Gwynea' Trade before 1550. Brokers Of Change: Atlantic Commerce And Cultures In Pre-Colonial Western Africa. Oxford University Press. 89-124. 2012
2009
- Research Book Chapters
  - Fashioning New Worlds from Old Words: Roger Barlow’s 'A Brief Summe of Geographie,' C. 1541. Old Worlds, New Worlds: European Cultural Encounters 1100-1750. Brepols. 77-100. 2009
  - Negotiating Fortune: English Merchants in Early Sixteenth-Century Seville. Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, Products, and Practices on the Move. Ashgate. 57-75. 2009

For 2011, 2012, 2013 research in UK and Spain, Bauta Funding (Canada) to The Cabot Project, 2011
Associate Investigator grant to fund 2012 project, Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions, 2011
To work at University of Bristol on Cabot Project 2010, Australian Academy of the Humanities International Research Fellowship, 2010
For archival research in Seville 2010, Harvard University International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 2010
Grant for research collaboration in UK on maritime merchants, Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research, 2008
Melbourne Abroad Postgraduate Traveling Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2005
Postgraduate Overseas Research Experience Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2004
Australian Postgraduate Award four-year scholarship, Australian Government, 2003