Molly A. Warsh

Molly A. Warsh is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her forthcoming book, America Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire 1492-1700, considers the early Caribbean pearl fisheries and their role in shaping expectations and practice of maritime empire in Spain and beyond in the early modern era. Together with Philip D. Morgan, Molly is also co-editor of a volume of collected essays, titled Early North America in Global Perspective (Routledge, 2013).