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Biography:
Natalia Silva Prada (USA) was born in Bucaramanga (Colombia). She graduated from Del Valle University (Cali, Colombia) with a BA in History and earned his MA and PhD in History from El Colegio de México (Mexico City). After working as a full-time professor and researcher in the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City for thirteenth years, she moved to Italy and next to the United States. She has been living in the Washington area since 2011, researching at the Library of Congress. Natalia has published her academic work in Latin America, Europe and the US. She owns and manages two academic blogs hosted by Hypothèses French platform, Los reinos de las Indias and Paleografías americanas. She is interested in 16th and 17th Cultural History, specifically in cultural language and political criticism and propaganda. Natalia’s last book, Pasquines, cartas y enemigos, was published in 2021 by Del Rosario University (Bogotá, Colombia). Her book, La política de una rebelión, received a research award by the Metropolitan Autonomous University in 2009.
Current research areas:
Cultural History, Colonial Latin America History