Dr. Dana Velasco Murillo

Biography

Dana Velasco Murillo is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include social ethnohistory, focusing on the lives of non-elite groups in early modern Latin America, particularly in colonial Mexico’s northern silver mining district. She has been actively involved in projects that aim to recover the histories of indigenous peoples and women during the consolidation of New Spain's sixteenth-century empire. Murillo's ongoing book project, titled 'Chichimeca Arc: War, Peace, Resettlement in America's Borderlands, 1546-1616,' seeks to illuminate the narrative of nomadic indigenous peoples. Her recent publications include an anthology co-edited with Robert Schwaller, titled 'Overlooked Places, Peoples: Indigenous and African Confrontations and Collaborations in the Spanish Empire,' set to be released by Routledge in 2024. Prior to her appointment at UC San Diego, she served as an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Adelphi University and was a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Throughout her career, she has received numerous fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.

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