- I earned my PhD in Spanish American History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2002). My thesis “criollismo y pat... moreI earned my PhD in Spanish American History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2002). My thesis “criollismo y patria. Los límites del pensamiento ilustrado en el virreinato peruano”, supervised by Professor Pilar Pérez Cantó, focused on creole identity and the Enlightenment in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Previously, I received a Master degree in Latin American History from the Universidad de La Rábida: “Tierras, hombres y dioses. Sociedades agrarias e imaginarios en América Latina” (1997). In my Master's thesis I conducted an in-depth analysis of the treatise “Notables daños que resultan de no guardar a los indios sus fueros (1571)” written by the early chronicler of Peru and jurist Polo de Ondegardo.
Alongside, during this period (1996-2007) I developed a research line focused on Gender history, publishing several articles, and participating in the Historia de las Mujeres en España y América Latina, published by Editorial Cátedra.
In recent years after gaining experience in two different research centers in Portugal (Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre(2008-2009) and Centro de História d´Aquém e d´Além-Mar(The Portuguese Centre for Global History-CHAM)(2009-2015) I have expanded my questions about the Spanish Empire, and the Vice-Reign of Peru, developing a research line on comparative history of the Iberian Empires and the history of science, with emphasys on botany, which I would to consolidate next years.
As a postdoctoral fellow in CHAM, I was engaged in a project entitled “Um lugar no mundo: o Brasil e a América hispânica nos laboratórios do Iluminismo”. The purpose of this project was to analyze, comprehensibly, the expeditions of Hipólito Ruiz, Antonio Pavón and Joseph Dombey to the Peruvian Viceroyalty, and those of Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira to the captaincy of Grão-Pará, Mato Grosso and Rio Negro in the final decades of the eighteenth century.
I am passionate about teaching. Prior to working in Portugal, I was responsible in the Department of Early Modern History at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid of a course on European Colonial Expansión (15th-19th century)
In Portugal, I teached two courses to undergradated students: History of Spain (18th-20th century) and History of the Spanish Empire. In the second case, the course focused on the history of Colonial Spanish America.
At the level of post-graduate, since 2009 I coordinated with Alicia Campos the course "El encuentro colonial: historia, política y antropología that forms part of the Master Program: Relaciones Internacionales y Estudios Africanos of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. This course provides an introduction to the history of various empires (Ottoman, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese Ming ...) emphasizing governance strategies
I participate regularly in post-graduate programs at the University Pablo Olavide of Seville (Master and PdD program “América Latina. Mundos Indígenas”)edit
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This paper shows that in the final decades of the eighteenth century, beyond the diplomatic and military conflicts between Portugal and Spain, there were important scientific connections, which have been little studied. Having as a... more
This paper shows that in the final decades of the eighteenth century, beyond the diplomatic and military conflicts between Portugal and Spain, there were important scientific connections, which have been little studied. Having as a starting point the almost unknown Specimen Florae Americae Meridionalis (1780), a four volumes botanical work produced in Real Museu da Ajuda (Lisbon), we will explore the interest aroused in the circles of scholars and amateur botanists the arrival in Lisbon of over two hundred drawings of plants from the Royal Botanical Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru (1777-1788). Considering the Portuguese, Spanish and English personalities who were involved in the presence of these drawings in Portugal we will recover some of the practices that made possible in this period the circulation of scientific knowledge and the advancement of botany. In this sense, this study aims to make a novel contribution to the History of Botany in Portugal and Spain, and point paths for future research.
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This article focuses on two scientific expeditions sent by the Iberian crowns to the Americas between 1770 and 1790: Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira´s nine-year journey to the Amazon región from 1782 to 1792 and Hipolito Ruiz´s botanical... more
This article focuses on two scientific expeditions sent by the Iberian crowns to the Americas between 1770 and 1790: Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira´s nine-year journey to the Amazon región from 1782 to 1792 and Hipolito Ruiz´s botanical expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru and Captaincy of Chile, 1777-1788. The aim is, firstly, to analyze how science was put at the service of
the Empire’s interests. Those who led these expeditions were armed with new enlightened knowledges and new scienctific instruments to perceive American nature and natural resources. On the basis of travelers’ gaze and theirs scientific practices, this article highlights some differences between the two empires and territories they embodied.
the Empire’s interests. Those who led these expeditions were armed with new enlightened knowledges and new scienctific instruments to perceive American nature and natural resources. On the basis of travelers’ gaze and theirs scientific practices, this article highlights some differences between the two empires and territories they embodied.
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Contribution to the historiographical debate on the Catholic Enlightenment and the relationship between Bourbon reforms and the lumières.
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Shows political considerations that justified the creation in Spain of chartered companies for american trade, in a period still unexplored.
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This book Analyse creole’s identity discourses and Enlightenment in the viceroyalty of Peru. Innovative considerations are given on the role played by science in the shaping of the Creole identity
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A partir de 1785 los navíos de la Compañía de Filipinas navegan por las aguas del Índico y el Pacífico, en rutas antes poco transitadas por las embarcaciones españolas. En este contexto, el Discurso Político sobre los establecimientos... more
A partir de 1785 los navíos de la Compañía de Filipinas navegan por las aguas del Índico y el Pacífico, en rutas antes poco transitadas por las embarcaciones españolas. En este contexto, el Discurso Político sobre los establecimientos ingleses de la Nueva Holanda (1788), del oficial de marina Francisco Muñoz y San Clemente, alertó a las autoridades españolas del peligro que representaba la nueva colonia británica, Nueva Gales del Sur, para el comercio y la seguridad de los territorios españoles en América y en las Filipinas. El objetivo de este artículo es situar este escrito en ese escenario ultramarino de rivalidad europea y mostrar como su autor introdujo en el mismo las nuevas nociones de economía política, que la circulación por otros mares y el conocimiento directo de otros imperios le llevaron a hacer suyas.
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This article explores how, in Colonial Latin America, gender, ethnicity and status conditioned Bourbon reforms on education.
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This article explores how women inscribed gender and conceptualized sexual difference in narratives about their participation in the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).