Viviana Quintero Márquez

Viviana Quintero Márquez is a Doctoral Candidate in the History Department at Vanderbilt University, where she works with Professor Jane Landers. She received an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research and publications explore how the human body, disease, medicine, and death relate to Colombian, Afro-Atlantic, and colonial history. She is writing a dissertation entitled “El Africa in America: Black Life, Rebellion, and Economic Revival in the Atlantic World of Cartagena de Indias, 1700 –1800.” Viviana Quintero has been awarded the SSRC-Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2021-2022), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2022), and a John Carter Brown Library Fellowship (2023). She has delivered presentations on her work at SECOLAS, LASA, FEEGI, and the John Carter Brown Library in the USA and at the universities of Sevilla and Cadiz in Spain. She also won a Ph.D. grant from the Colombian State in 2014 and an Honorable Mention from the Latin American Studies Association in 2012. She has helped to curate the Manuel and Delia Zapata Olivella Special Collections and contributed to the Slave Societies Digital Archive, both located at Vanderbilt University. Her most recent articles, “Soldiers, Militias, and Tamboreros Cabildantes in Bocachica and Cartagena de Indias, 1741-1970” appear in The Latin Americanist (Volume 63, Number 1, March 2019, pp. 89-106), and “Archivos, Manuel Zapata, y los puertos urbanos negros: Dos historias del bautismo en Cartagena y sus alrededores” will appear in Afro Hispanic Review in 2023. In addition to her academic work in the United States, Viviana Quintero has participated as a researcher for the Colombian Historical Memory Commission, has worked as an advisor for Colombia’s Office of the Attorney General on issues of sexual violence, and contributed to an experimental judicial investigation that focused on emblematic cases of violence in the Colombian armed conflict. She has also been a columnist for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador.  

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