About Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert is associate professor of history at McGill University and author of A Nation upon the Ocean Sea. Books by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town by (author) Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert A Nation upon the Ocean Sea Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 by (author) Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert