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SCHOOL OF HISTORY

María del Pilar
MONROY MERCHÁN

The professor of the School of History, María del Pilar Monroy Merchan, is presented to the general public and the educational community.

Director of the School of History

Director of GED
Research Group

CONTACT

Information

mpmonroy@uis.edu.co

+57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 2237

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

  • PhD in Social Sciences with a focus on History


    Universidad de Guadalajara, 2015

  • Master's Degree in History


    Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2009

  • Degree in Social Sciences


    Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, 2005

Director of the School of History

Director of
GED Research Group

CONTACT

Information

mpmonroy@uis.edu.co

+57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 2237

AREAS OF

Expertise

  • History of indigenous peoples

OFFICE

Hours

Tuesday

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

UIS Central Campus, Edificio de Ciencias Humanas, Escuela de Historia

Research

Group

Outstanding

Works

AWARDS AND

Recognitions

  • Scholarship recipient


    Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías (Conacyt), México, 2011

  • Publication of best doctoral thesis


    Universidad de Guadalajara, México, 2018

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