This paper is an exploration of the relationship between early modern refugees, skill, materiality, and religiosity in the Atlantic world.

Neil Kamil is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from The Johns Hopkins University.  He is the author of Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). He is an IHS Fellow in 2017-2018.

Read more about Dr. Kamil and his work at:
liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/kamilnd

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Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Professeur de civilisation américaine
Université de Paris 8
Institut Universitaire de France
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