A specialist on early modern expansion, Professor Myrup's research focuses on Portugal, Brazil, and the larger Luso-Brazilian world.  He is currently writing a history of the Overseas Council, a powerful metropolitan tribunal that governed Portugal’s seaborne empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  Tracing the tribunal's connections across the globe, he has literally followed in the footsteps of the old colonial bureaucrats that he studies, conducting archival research in such places as Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and Macau.  In addition to revising his manuscript for publication, he has recently completed co-editing a volume of articles with Stuart Schwartz entitled, O Brasil no império marítimo português (EDUSC, 2008).  His articles and reviews have appeared in such places as Portuguese Studies, Itinerario, and the Hispanic American Historical Review.  Additionally, he has published a number of short children’s stories in Taiwan.  A former Fulbright Fellow in Portugal, Professor Myrup has held visiting fellowships at Portugal's National Library and National Archive, as well as at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.  In addition to Brazil and Latin America, his teaching and research interests include Portuguese Asia, slavery and race in the Americas, and cross-cultural encounters in the early modern world.

About Me
A native of Salt Lake City, Professor Myrup also hails in part from New Haven, Connecticut—where he spent nearly a third of his life secretly aiming to become a professional student.  He majored in Latin American studies as an undergraduate (BA, Yale, 1996), then subsequently returned to the Elm City to study history, completing an M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. over the course of the next decade (finally graduating in May 2006—to his wife's great surprise and delight).  Prior to coming to UK, he taught at Connecticut College and the University of Northern Colorado.  Additionally, he has worked as a missionary in western Brazil and as a writer and editor in Taiwan.  When he is not in his office—and even sometimes when he is—Professor Myrup can be found reading to his children: Kyrsten (9), Kate (9), Annika (5), and Lars (2).