DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Biography

Mariana is a doctoral candidate in Latin American History whose research focuses on the South American lowlands during the long eighteenth century, concentrating on the province of Mojos in present-day Bolivia. She investigates how musical practices, labor, and Indigenous knowledge shaped territorial and political formations in the frontier regions of the Iberian empires. Before beginning her graduate studies, Mariana taught literature and social studies in several high schools in Bogotá, Colombia, and served as a lecturer in the Literature Department at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.