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Pete Haskin, whose full name is Peter William Haskin, is a graduate student and historian based in Montpelier, Vermont, appearing on Jeopardy! with the occupation Graduate Student. He is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Yale University, where his research focuses on colonial Latin America, geography, natural history, cartography, printing and the circulation of knowledge in the Spanish and Portuguese empires.

Haskin’s dissertation examines the cosmographical tradition in eighteenth-century Latin America, with particular attention to how geographic knowledge was gathered, edited, printed and circulated. His research originally focused heavily on colonial Mexico, but later expanded to include Peru and Brazil, allowing him to compare geographic thought across a much broader portion of eighteenth-century Latin America.

His academic interests include readers and writers of geography and natural history, the development of geographic knowledge, the history of cartography, the global spread of the printing press and the ways scientific knowledge developed in colonial settings. He is also associated with Yale’s environmental-history community, where his stated interests include Latin American history, cartography and religious history.

Haskin has conducted extensive international archival research. During the 2022–2023 academic year, he received a Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship to carry out dissertation research in Mexico. While there, he was affiliated with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. His project examined writers, readers and printers of geography in eighteenth-century New Spain.

His research in Mexico included close study of geographic texts and manuscripts, particularly the relaciones geográficas, reports that compiled information about places, populations, natural environments and local conditions. He has examined how eighteenth-century editors transformed large bodies of geographic information from numerous sources into standardized printed works.

Haskin later expanded his research into Brazil through a Fox International Fellowship at the University of São Paulo. During his time in Brazil, he worked closely with the collections of the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, one of the most important libraries for Brazilian and Latin American historical research.

His Brazilian research also took him beyond São Paulo. He conducted archival work at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro and undertook fieldwork in Minas Gerais and Bahia. This research helped broaden his dissertation from a primarily Mexican study into a comparative examination of geographic thought across Mexico, Peru and Brazil.

Haskin has received additional fellowships supporting research at major historical libraries. These have included fellowships at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, the John Carter Brown Library and the Newberry Library. His Beinecke research included a project examining the religious dimensions of natural history in Spanish and Portuguese America between roughly 1700 and 1750.

He is also active in the field of book history. At Yale, Haskin has served as a coordinator of the university’s Book History Working Group, which brings together graduate students and faculty interested in manuscripts, print culture, books and other material forms of written communication.

Haskin has presented his research at academic conferences. In 2025, for example, he presented work on local knowledge in eighteenth-century relaciones geográficas from New Spain and Peru at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. His research addresses how information moved between local communities, colonial administrators, editors and printed texts.

Before Yale, Haskin attended Boston College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2016. His undergraduate work already reflected the interests that would later shape his doctoral research. While at Boston College, he participated in historical research involving early printed books and cartography and contributed to projects based on materials held by the university’s John J. Burns Library.

One of his undergraduate projects examined maps by Herman Moll and nineteenth-century exploration materials associated with Charles Wilkes, using historical maps and printed sources to study how geography was represented. He was also involved in a hands-on Boston College course that explored early book production, including historic binding and printing techniques.

Haskin participated in undergraduate research beyond his regular coursework and was listed among Boston College representatives at the ACC Meeting of the Minds, a conference showcasing student scholarship from universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

After graduating from Boston College and before beginning his Yale doctorate, Haskin worked for a nonprofit organization providing legal services to immigrants in eastern Massachusetts. He was affiliated with Project Citizenship, an organization that assists eligible immigrants with the naturalization process, and was formally recognized as an accredited representative permitted to assist with immigration matters before the Department of Homeland Security.

That experience gave Haskin a professional background in immigration and nonprofit legal services before he entered graduate study. It also distinguishes his career from a more traditional straight-through academic path.

Haskin was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1994, making him approximately 32 years old in 2026. Before settling in Vermont, he had connections to several places associated with his education and work, including Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut.

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