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Throughout his academic career, Alden has taught courses on Latin American History, Brazilian History, and Mexican History, and collaborated with Dan Waugh on an audiovisual course titled A Europa descobre o mundo [Europe Discovers the World], which focused on the 18th century. He has also conducted research in Portugal, Brazil, India, Australia, Italy, England, Japan, and China.
His work The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, its Empire, and Beyond, 1540-1750 encompasses information from five continents, representing a comprehensive study in the field of connected history, as it investigates the activities of the Society of Jesus within the Portuguese colonial empire from its foundation until its expulsion in 1759. Through this work, he was awarded the John Gilmary Shea Prize in 1997 by the American Catholic Historical Association.
In recent years, Dauril Alden has explored the eventful life of British historian Charles Boxer, a scholar of the Portuguese and Dutch colonial empires, and has established himself as Boxer’s foremost biographer.
Active bibliography: The Marquis of Lavradio, viceroy of Brazil (1769-1779), and the clímax of luso-spanish platine rivalry , Berkeley, University of California Press, 1959. Manoel Luis Vieira: An Entrepreneur in Rio de Janeiro during Brazil's eighteenth century agricultural renaissance . Hispanic American Historical Review, n.39, 1959, 521-537. “The Growth and Decline of Indigo Production in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Comparative Economic History”. In The Journal of Economic History , Cambridge University Press, v.25, n.1, 1965. Royal Government in Colonial Brazil: With Special Reference to the Administration of the Marquis of Lavradio, Viceroy, 1769-1779 , Berkeley, University of California Press, 1973. O significado da produção de cacau na região amazônica no fim do período colonial: um ensaio de história econômica comparada, Belém, Pará, Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos, 1974. "Late Colonial Brazil, 1750-1808." in Colonial Brazil , New York, Cambridge University Press, 1987. The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, its Empire, and Beyond, 1540-1750 , Stanford/California, Stanford University Press, 1996. Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life: Soldier, Historian, Teacher, Collector, Traveller , Lisboa, Fundação Oriente, 2001. “Dauril Alden” in visitado em 03 de dezembro de 2020.
This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P, in the scope of the projects UIDB/04311/2020 and UIDP/04311/2020.
