Stanford Humanities Center
Christian Robles-Baez is a PhD Candidate in History at Stanford University, where he studies the emergence and consolidation of the global coffee trade in the early nineteenth century. His research focuses on Brazilian coffee production and its consumption in the United States. His dissertation, tentatively titled "The Making of an Improbable Global Market: Coffee (1808–1850)," examines how coffee became one of the world’s most valuable commodities despite the pervasive risks and uncertainties of its formative years. Robles-Baez’s work bridges Business History, the History of Capitalism, Environmental History, Transnational History, and Latin American Studies.
