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Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American History from Yale University in 2018. His research focuses on Latin American history, early modern Atlantic history, and Indigenous studies, particularly the interactions between Indigenous peoples and European empires. Muñoz-Arbeláez has published works examining the colonial period, social customs, and historiography in the Americas, with an emphasis on the visual dimensions of public history. He is the author of 'Costumbres en disputa. Los muiscas y el imperio español en Ubaque, siglo XVI' and has several forthcoming publications, including 'New Kingdom Granada: Making Unmaking Spain's Atlantic Empire.' Apart from teaching at UT Austin, he has previously taught at the Universidad de los Andes and the University of Connecticut. Muñoz-Arbeláez also co-founded Neogranadina, a non-profit focused on digitization in Latin America, and has developed significant bilingual digital projects to enhance historical understanding of the region. His interests lie in the convergence of material culture and digital humanities in historical research.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Teaching courses on Latin American History, focusing on Indigenous interactions with European empires and material culture.
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