Professor Carla Rahn Phillips

Carla Rahn Phillips earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at New York University in New York City. Throughout her career, her research has focused on the economic, social and maritime history of Spain in the early modern centuries. In addition to numerous articles and chapters in collected works, she is the author of Ciudad Real, 1500-1750: Growth, Crisis and Readjustment in the Spanish...See more

Carla Rahn Phillips earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at New York University in New York City. Throughout her career, her research has focused on the economic, social and maritime history of Spain in the early modern centuries. In addition to numerous articles and chapters in collected works, she is the author of Ciudad Real, 1500-1750: Growth, Crisis and Readjustment in the Spanish Economy (Cambridge, Mass., 1979); Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century (Baltimore, 1986); and The Treasure of the San Jose: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession (Baltimore, 2007). She is also co-author, with William D. Phillips Jr., of The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (Cambridge, 1992); Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore, 1997); and A Concise History of Spain (Cambridge, 2010; 2016). She retired in 2013 as the Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. In retirement she is associated with the University of Texas, Austin; the University of California, San Diego; and the San Diego Maritime Museum. See less