Publications & Presentations include articles on the religion and spirituality of the Taínos for a major project titled Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions funded by the Ford Foundation and produced by York University, an article on yucca for a new Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History to be published by Oxford University Press, a chapter entitled, “Boiling it Down:  Slavery on the First Commercial Sugarcane Ingenios in the Americas (Hispaniola 1530-1545),” in Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives:Blacks in Colonial Latin America (ed. Jane Landers, University of New Mexico Press), the article "No More Negotiation:  Slavery and the destabilization of colonial Hispaniola's Encomienda system" for special issue, vol. 29, of Revista Interamericana, “Criollos:  The Birth of a Dynamic New Indo-Afro-European People and Culture on Hispaniola,” for KACIKE:  Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology, January 2000: 1-17 (www.kacike.org), "Willing it so:  Intimate glimpses of encomienda life in colonial Hispaniola," in Colonial Latin American Historical Review 7(3), Summer 1998:  245-264; "Mything in Action:  An historian explains how the myth of Taíno extinction began and was perpetuated," Native Peoples 12(1), Fall 1998:  75-76; seven entries ("Hispaniola Slave Revolt of 1521/22," "Encomienda System," "Laws of Burgos," "Black Legend," "Enriquillo," "Taínos," and "The Requirement"), Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, ed. Junius P. Rodríguez, Santa Barbara, CA:  ABC-CLIO, 1998; and "Third World Road," a poem about the Dominican Republic published in the Journal of Geography 92(2), March/April 1993.  I have made numerous presentations, including: “La cultura dominicana, hoy y ayer”(Venezuelan Embassy, Santo Domingo), "Red & Black Together:  Re-examining the demography of rural Hispaniola in the first half of the sixteenth century" (1998 Afro-Latin American Research Association, Santo Domingo); "Balancing the Accounts:  A newly informed examination of early sixteenth-century Hispaniola's rural economy and labor force" (1998 American History Association and Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, WA); "'Greatly Good and Fertile':  Agricultural products and techniques under the Taínos and colonial Spaniards" (1997 American Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City); "When Slavery was Red and Black:  Documentary evidence of multi-ethnic slavery in the gold mines and sugar ingenios of Hispaniola, first half of the sixteenth century" (1997 Identifying Enslaved Africans workshop, York University, Toronto); “No More Negotiation:  Slavery and the destabilization of colonial Hispaniola's encomienda system" (1997 Association of Caribbean Historians, Martinique); and "Vadillo's Will:  A Testament to the Strength and Influence of the Relationships Between Amerindian Women and Spanish Men in Colonial Hispaniola" (1995 American Society for Ethnohistory, Kalamazoo, MI.