Alejandra B. Osorio

Alejandra B. Osorio is Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College. She offers courses in modern and colonial Latin America. Her research focuses on the intersection of politics and urban culture in colonial Latin America. Her current project examines the baroque political and cultural making of Lima, the colonial capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru. She is also working on a collaborative project on cities in the Spanish and Portuguese Atlantic Worlds.

Professor Osorio received her B.A. in History and M.A. in Latin American Studies from New York University in 1983 and 1991. She earned a Certificate in Womenıs Studies in 1998, and a Ph.D. in History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2001.

She held the position of Associate Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida in 2000-2001. At Florida she was also an Assistant Scholar in Latin American Studies, and faculty affiliate of the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, teaching upper-level seminars in Latin American Women's Movements and Feminisms, and on the topics of Violence, Fear and Cities in the Americas.

Professor Osorio has conducted archival research in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Spain and the United States. She has been a visiting scholar at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos in Lima, Peru. In 1996-1997 she was a Fulbright scholar at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and between 1995-97 a member of the Seminar on Peruvian Historiography and Gender Studies at CENDOC-Mujer, in Lima, Peru.

Professor Osorio has organized several conference panels and delivered papers before numerous historical, anthropological and Latin American Studies societies in Latin America, the United States and Europe. She has published articles in Peru, England and the United States.

She has been the recipient of several prestigious fellowships, including the Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship, the W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, the Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, the Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship and the Helbein Scholar Award. She is the recipient of the 2001 Fred Weinstein Award for Best History Dissertation.

Profile last updated: 9/02