About Jeremy Bassetti

Hi. Jeremy Bassetti here. I am a writer, photographer, and educator. View my curriculum vitæ.

I did a bulk of my doctoral research at the Royal Academy of History in Madrid, where I studied how historians in the 18th century wrote history. I received my PhD in 2014 and have been Professor of Humanities since 2011.

My writing and photographs have appeared in publications like Lonely Planet, Off Assignment, and Condé Nast Traveller.

I am currently working on an interdisciplinary project about mountains, which I’m writing about in On Mountains.

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Podcasts

I was the host of the award-winning Travel Writing World podcast, which ran from 2019-2023. It has been referenced in publications like The Telegraph, South China Morning Post, Lit Hub, Guernica Mag, and Forbes. Scholarly publications have cited it, and professors have integrated it into their curricula. The podcast had over 100,000 downloads before it went on hiatus in late 2023.

Since then, I’ve started a few new podcasts with irregular schedules. In my On Mountains podcast, I speak with folks who think about mountains. In my Creative Journeys podcast, I speak with writers, photographers, and creative minds about process, practice, and the creative life.

Books

• The Hill of the Skull (2023) - An photobook memoir of my visit to a sacred mountain in Bolivia.
• █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ (2020) - A book I ghostwrote.
• The Early Modern World (2018) - An anthology of primary source materials for students. Out of print.
• Denounced (2017) - A novel about two men whose paths collide as the Holy Office clamps down on Protestantism and the illegal book trade in 16th-century Spain. Fiction, but based on a true story.

Teaching

I’ve been a full-time educator since 2011. I currently teach at Valencia College in Central Florida. Opinions expressed herein or across my social channels are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer. I earned tenure in 2014 and was the Humanities department coordinator from 2018 to 2022. I conducted most of my doctoral research at the Royal Academy of History in Madrid and very briefly at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville (where I lived and taught English from 2010-2011). I earned my PhD from Florida State University in 2014. My dissertation focused on how historians in the 18th century used coins found within Spain to rewrite the nation’s history. I’ve led numerous study abroad programs to Spain and Italy. I’ve won and been nominated for a few teaching awards somehow.

Deeper still

If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, here is my complete curriculum vitæ. Or view this site’s colophon.