Past Member
Valeria Alejandra Escauriaza Lopez Fadul
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Assistant Professors
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Early Modern Spain, Colonial Latin America, History of Science
From
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Valeria Alejandra Escauriaza Lopez Fadul’s book project reconstructs the beliefs and practices with which sixteenth-century scholars sought to write the history of Spanish America’s multilingual domains. It argues that to those charged with extracting information from Spain’s empire, language was an archive of local knowledge.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
2015
Appointments
Wesleyan University
2017
Assistant Professor