About the Presenter
Rebok is a historian and cultural scientist specializing in 18th and 19th-century intellectual networks, transnational cooperation, scientific exploration voyages, and imperial expansion. Her research focuses on the connections between the U.S. nation-building process and the Spanish Empire in North America.
She is a Senior Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies within the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. She also serves as a Research Associate in the History Department at the University of San Diego and as a Lecturer at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
Rebok has over 20 years of scholarship on Alexander von Humboldt, Thomas Jefferson, and other leading minds of the Enlightenment. She is developing the field of global and interconnected history through her new book project, which analyzes Jefferson’s strategic pursuits in the Spanish and Mexican Southwest.