Education
BA Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia), 2008
MA University of Michigan, 2013
PhD University of Michigan, 2018
Research Interests
Dr. Ana María Silva Campo is a historian of race, gender, religion, and the law in colonial Latin American cities. In her current book project, Crossing the Half-Moon Bridge, she studies the formation of religious, gendered, and increasingly racialized hierarchies in Cartagena de Indias, the main port for the trade in African captives in Spanish South America during the seventeenth century. The book examines the tension between the political economy of the trade in African captives and Spain’s imperial project to enforce religious orthodoxy. Using the financial archives of the tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Cartagena, “Crossing the Half-Moon Bridge” shows how the Inquisition transformed the city by confiscating and reselling the houses of free women of African descent while preserving the networks that sustained the trade in African captives during the seventeenth century. Dr. Silva Campo’s research for this project has been supported by the American Council for Learned Societies.
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