Notes on Contributors
Manuel Bastias Saavedra is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on the legal and institutional history of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. He currently leads the IberLAND project, funded by the European Research Council.
Alessandro Buono is Professor at the University of Pisa. He focuses on personal identity and ownership in early modern Europe, subject on which he co-edited Under Guardianship. Properties without Owner and Vacant Successions in a Comparative Perspective, 13thâ20th Centuries (2020).
Thiago H. Mota is Assistant Professor of African History at the University of CaliforniaâSanta Cruz. He authored the book Portugueses e Muçulmanos na Senegâmbia, and articles published in journals such as Atlantic Studies, Afriques, Slavery & Abolition, and Latin American Research Review.
José Carlos de la Puente Luna is Professor of History at Texas State University and the author of Los curacas hechiceros de Jauja (2007) and Andean Cosmopolitans (2018). His research centres on indigenous land tenure and commoner colonization in colonial Andes.
Marta MartÃn Gabaldón is a researcher at UNAMâs Institute of Historical Research. She studies colonial indigenous territory in Oaxaca and co-coordinates the book La historia de los pueblos indÃgenas en México (2024).
Carolina Jurado teaches Latin American History at the University of Buenos Aires and she is a researcher at CONICET (Argentina). Her work examines Spanish ruleâs impact on Aymara leadership and land ownership in Charcas (Viceroyalty of Peru) during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Ãñigo Ena Sanjuán is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Leibniz University Hannover. He was granted a Marie SkÅodowska-Curie Fellowship (2025â2027). His research interests are state formation and common pastures in the Pyrenean valleys.
Alcira Dueñas is Professor at the Ohio State University. A specialist in the ethnohistory of colonial state building, she published the award-winning book Indians and Mestizos in the Lettered City, several book chapters and articles in Ethnohistory, Colonial Latin American History, The Americas, Histórica, among others.
Crislayne Alfagali holds a PhD in Social History from UNICAMP, focusing on Colonial Brazil and Africa. She published Blacksmiths of Ilamba, detailing labour history at an Angolan iron foundry in the 18th century.
Rosa Congost is Professor at the University of Girona, directing the Center for Research in Rural History. She has extensively published on property rights, including the monograph Tierras, Leyes, Historia (2007).