Glenn J. Ames

Who was Glenn J. Ames?

Glenn Joseph Ames was born on February 3, 1955 in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Ames earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rhode Island, and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Minnesota. In 1988, Ames joined the University of Toledo History Department and taught courses for twenty years on an array of topics including the French Revolution, European expansion to the Indian Ocean basin, and the age of absolutism. Ames joined the UT faculty as an assistant professor of history, was named associate professor in 1993, and a professor of history in 1998.

Ames had a vast publication record of six books and over thirty academic articles. Among his book publications include: En Nome de Deus: The Journal of the First Voyage of Vascular DA Gama to India, 1497-1499, Renascent Empire: The House of Extravaganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, c. 1640-1683, and Colbert, Mercantilism and the French Quest for Asian Trade.

Ames spent more than five academic years undertaking archival research in France, England, the Netherlands, Portugal, and India. Ames received many awards including a Fulbright Grant, fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Portuguese Ministry of Education, and the Callous Kentuckian Foundation of Lisbon. Ames was a Leverage Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol and in 2002 was a Union Pacific Visiting Professor at the Center for Early Modern Europe at the University of Minnesota. In 2004, Ames received the Outstanding Faculty Research Award at the University of Toledo.