History
Frank "Trey" Proctor teaches courses in the history of Latin America and the Atlantic
World. His research and teaching interests focus on Mexico, colonial Latin America, and
Comparative Slavery.
He is currently working on the manuscript for his monograph, "Damned Notions of
Liberty": Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico. He has also published
articles in The Americas and the Hispanic American Historical Review on African
slavery in Mexico. In addition, he had contributed articles to the edited volumes Black
Mexico and Expanding the Diaspora: Africans to Colonial Latin America.
He joined the faculty at Denison in 2005 after teaching for two years at Whitman College
in Walla Walla, WA. Professor Proctor earned his BA from University of California at Davis,
his MA from the University of Arizona, and his PhD from Emory University.
