Post-Doc, History
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Pilar Latasa
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About
I received my Ph.D. in History at the University of Navarra in April, 2008 with a dissertation in Colonial Colombian History titled “De la primera sangre de este reino”. Composición de las instituciones de justicia y gobierno de Santa Fe de Bogotá (1700-1750). It is focused on the analysis of elites of colonial Santa Fe during the first half of the eighteenth century examining their inclusion in the institutions of justice and government. A book based in that dissertation was published by Ediciones Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia in 2010.
From 2009 to 2011 I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, and at Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia through the Program of Postdoctoral Mobility sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) in collaboration with the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).
Since 2009 my research has been focused on a wider examination of the ways in which viceroys interacted with local elites in the New Kingdom of Granada during the 18th century. I am examining the character of viceregal authority –reflected in ceremonies as well as in formal powers– and the ways in which the viceroys were able to exercise power through the use of patronage and alliances with local corporations and networks.
Following this line of analysis, on March 2012 I started working at the University of Navarra as a postdoctoral researcher (sponsored by the local government funded Anabasi+d Postdoctoral Programme) with a new project focused on Manuel de Guirior's viceregal court in Santa Fe between 1772 and 1776. This research is inserted within the wider frame of a project focused in analyzing power and authority in the Hispanic World carried on by the GRISO group.
