SCHOOL OF HISTORY
María del Pilar
MONROY MERCHÁN
GENERAL
Biography
Research professor on the history of indigenous peoples at the local level and in comparative perspective. Her work has focused on the analysis of the processes of disentailment of reservation lands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in different indigenous groups and their relationship with the processes of ethnic reconstitution through religious corporations such as brotherhoods. She is the director of the Pensamiento Decolonial research group, where ethnohistory is approached to understand and explain the history of indigenous peoples from their own worldviews. She also has experience in the area of history teaching.
EDUCATION AND
Qualifications
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PhD in Social Sciences with a focus on History
Universidad de Guadalajara, 2015
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Master's Degree in History
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2009
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Degree in Social Sciences
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, 2005
AREAS OF
Expertise
- History of indigenous peoples
OFFICE
Hours
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Tuesday
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
UIS Central Campus, Edificio de Ciencias Humanas, Escuela de Historia
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Outstanding
Works
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Nahuas y Cherokees: tierra, lucha y reinvención. El proceso de individualización en el siglo XIX
Article, Secuencia, 2019
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La dificultad de arrancar al indio de la comunidad
Book chapter, Narrativas sociopolíticas en pleno siglo XXI, 2018
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Las cofradías mixtas del nororiente neogranadino como un espacio de construcción de la otredad (1650-1750)
Book chapter, Etnohistoria Miradas renovadas y conectadas, 2021
AWARDS AND
Recognitions
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Scholarship recipient
Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías (Conacyt), México, 2011
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Publication of best doctoral thesis
Universidad de Guadalajara, México, 2018