Team
Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Perú (PUCP) Peru
Claudia Rosas Lauro
TEAM LEADER
- crosas@pucp.edu.pe
Professor at the Department of Humanities, Director of the Master’s degree in History and member of the Steering Committee of the Doctorate Programme in History at Pontifica Universidad Católica del Peru. Has a PhD in History from the University of Florence, Italy. Is a Full Member of the National Academy of History of Peru. Among her publications are ‘La lucha por la libertad. Rebelión, guerra e independencia del Perú, 1780-1826’ (2021), ‘Los rostros de la independencia. El nacimiento del Perú desde las vidas de sus protagonistas’ (2021), ‘Mujeres de armas tomar. La participación femenina en las guerras del Perú republicano’ (2021), and ‘Estado, memoria y sociedad en Ayacucho, Cusco y Lima’ (2021) with Nelson Pereyra.
Adriana Scaletti
INVESTIGATOR
- ascaletti@pucp.pe
Principal Professor at PUCP’s Department of Architecture, Director of the Master’s Degree in Built Heritage in the Andean Region (PAC), and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Group ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE PUCP. She has an Art History and Cultural Management doctorate from the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville (Spain). She is an architect from the Universidad Ricardo Palma, Peru. Her recent publications include research on the resilience of historic buildings against earthquakes of the 17th and 18th centuries, the transformation of urban spaces since the 16th century in Peru, and traditional materials and techniques for sustainability.
Jorge Lossio
INVESTIGATOR
- jorge.lossio@pucp.pe
Senior professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and director of the Riva-Agüero Institute of the PUCP. He is a member of the Peruvian Association for the History of Science, Technology and Health. Peruvian researcher and teacher specialising in health history and contemporary Peruvian political history. He has published various articles on epidemics and health policies. Among his most recent publications are “Economic History of the Peruvian East. Harvesting, resistance, adaptation and Sustainability” (2023), “MASI: History of an Innovation in Times of Pandemic” (2022), “What Did We Do Wrong? The tragedy of covid in Peru” (2022). He has a doctorate in history of science from the University of Manchester (UK).
Liliana Pérez-Miguel
INVESTIGATOR
- perez.liliana@pucp.pe
Associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the PUCP. She has a doctorate in History from the University of Burgos and a specialist in Peruvian viceregal history, history of women and gender relations and history of female ecclesiastical institutions. She is a member of various associations and research networks and has held multiple exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In 2018, she won the Nuestra América Award for best monograph “Mujeres ricas y libres”. Mujer y poder: Inés Muñoz y las encomenderas en el Perú (s. XVI) (2020). She has also published “La problemática sobre la incorporación de indias y mestizas al estamento eclesiástico en el virreinato peruano en la encrucijada de dos épocas” (2022) and “Mujeres de animo viril. Estereotipos y roles de género en la conquista de América (S XVI)” (2023).
Oscar Espinosa
INVESTIGATOR
- oespinosa@pucp.edu.pe
Principal professor in the Department of Social Sciences of PUCP. He is the Director of the Master’s Degree in Advanced Amazonian Studies and Coordinator of the Research Group in Amazonian Anthropology. He has a doctorate in Anthropology and History from the New School for Social Research in New York. He has been a specialist in multiple Amazonian peoples of Peru for more than 30 years, mainly with the Asháninka and Shipibo-Konibo peoples, on which he has published various books and articles. His research topics include indigenous politics, the relationship between indigenous peoples and the State, ethnohistory and history of the Amazon, education and intercultural justice.
Renzo Aroni Sulca
INVESTIGATOR
- renzo.aroni@pucp.edu.pe
Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at PUCP, teaching courses on social revolution, oral history, and politics of memory in Peru and Latin America. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and a lecturer at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University (2020-2023). He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of California, Davis. He is currently working on his book manuscript, “Indigenous Peasants at War: Resistance and Massacre in Peru’s Shining Path.” He has published articles in journals, such as Latin American Perspectives and NACLA Report on the Americas, and has published book chapters in Spanish and English. He is also the creator and co-host of Kuskalla, a podcast about Quechua and Andean knowledge.
Teresa Vergara Ormeño
INVESTIGATOR
- teresa.vergara@pucp.edu.pe
Associate Professor of the Department of Humanities of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Ph.D. in History from the University of Connecticut (USA). She is a specialist in social history, history of colonial Peru and ethnohistory. Among her recent publications are: “La leyenda de Naylamp en la memoria y la identidad de los pueblos de Lambayeque, costa norte del Perú” co-authored with Rafael Vega-Centeno (Diálogo Andino, 71, 2023); “Articulación, derroteros y confluencia de los indios entre el mundo rural y el urbano (virreinatos de Nueva España y del Perú)” co-authored with Xochitl Inostroza and Marina Zuloaga (Cuadernos de Historia 57, 2022); “Contrapunto entre mitas: trabajo mitayo en la sierra y la costa, la ciudad y el campo” co-authored with Francisco Quiroz Chueca (Diálogo Andino 69, 2022); “Bartolomé de Mesa Túpac Yupanqui: trayectoria de un comerciante de la elite indígena limeña (1774-1810)” (Revista del Instituto Riva Agüero, 1, 2019). Currently, she is working on the manuscript of her book about the spaces of power of the indigenous population of the city of Lima in the colonial period.
