Valeria Mantilla Morales
First Name:
Valeria
Last Name:
Mantilla Morales
Email :
valeria.mantillamorales@mail.utoronto.ca
Title:
PhD Program & Course Instructor (Fall 2023)
Biography :
Valeria Mantilla Morales is a historian of Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. Her current dissertation research is a journey from the 1750s to the 1850s on Colombia's Magdalena River, reaching into the amphibious lives of free people of colour along this body of water to reconstruct cultural visions around food and the commons, race, and the environment in Latin America.
Education:
PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
MA, University of Guelph (2017)
BA, University of Toronto (2014)
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Research Area:
Areas of Interest:
Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean ; Food Studies ; Environmental History ; Race and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean
Program:
Cohort:
Dissertation Title:
Riverine Realities: Free People of Colour, Food, and Ecology Along Colombia’s Magdalena River, 1750-1850
Dissertation Supervisors:
Jeffrey Pilcher
Tamara Walker
