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Silvia Escanilla Huerta received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 2008, a master’s degree from the University of San Andrés (Argentina) in 2015, and a PhD., from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2022. Her work focuses on the role plebeian sectors had in the political mobilization that took place in the Central and Southern Andes during the period 1809-1825. For her project, she conducted research on numerous archives in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Spain, and received the support of several institutions including the Institute of Research in Humanities (IRH) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, CEDLA (Netherlands), the AHA, the Tinker Foundation and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. Since 2013 she has edited a book and published numerous articles on this topic. Among her latest publications are an article on the impact of the constitution of Cadiz among indigenous people between 1812 and 1820 that was published in Hispanic American Historical Review 101.2 (2021) a historiographical balance of the role of indigenous people in the process of independence that appeared in Revista de Indias in a volume commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Independence of Peru. Silvia lives with her family in Philadelphia.

Recent Publications

2023    “Una revolución silenciosa. El impacto de la Constitución de Cádiz en el virreinato del Perú, 1812-1823,” Revista del Instituto Riva Agüero, Vol. 8, Nro. 1

2022    “Los pueblos del valle del Mantaro eligen la independencia,” Parte de guerra. Noticias de último minuto de la independencia del Perú (1820-1821) edited by Marco Zileri Dougall (Lima: Editorial Planeta).

2021     ““They Will Live Without Law or Religion.” Cadiz, Indigenous People and Political Change in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1812-1820.” Hispanic American Historical Review 101:2.

2021     “El rol de los sectores indígenas en la independencia del Perú. Bases para una nueva interpretación.” Revista de Indias, Vol. 81 No. 281:51-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2021.002

2021     “Ni con Lima ni con Madrid. Guerrillas rurales en la guerra de independencia del Perú.” Revista del Instituto Riva Agüero Volume 6, No. 2:159-195 https://doi.org/10.18800/revistaira.202102.005

2020    ““Las milicias locales y la bandolerización de la guerra de independencia en el Perú (1820-1822).” Historia Caribe, Vol. 15 No. 36: 105-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.15648/hc.36.2020.6

2020    Sotomayor, Antonio and Silvia Escanilla Huerta, “Cartas para la historia. El epistolario de los Carrillo de Albornoz y Bravo de Lagunas, condes de Montemar, en el ocaso del imperio español en América, 1761-1799.” Revista de Historia de América No. 158 (January-June): 403-420. https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.158.2020.586

2018     “Patriotas de su propia tierra. La costa central norte en el contexto de las incursiones de Cochrane, 1819.” Las guerras de independencia en clave bicentenario edited by Daniel Morán, Carlos Carcelén (Lima: Grupo Gráfico del Piero).

2018     “Hacia una nueva cronología de la Guerra de independencia en el Perú.” Tiempo de guerra: Estado, nación y conflicto armado en el Perú, siglos XVII-XIX, edited by Carmen McEvoy and Alejandro Rabinovich, (Lima: IEP): 111-138.

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Country Focus

Andes, Peru, Bolivia

Expertise by Geography

Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin America, Spain, Western Europe

Expertise by Chronology

Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern

Expertise by Topic

Emancipation, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Military, Politics, Sports