Contact Information

Dr. Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
CNW214
University of Kent
Canterbury CT2 7NF

Tel: 01227 827547
n.sobrevilla@kent.ac.uk

Research

My research interests include state formation and political culture in the Andes from the end of the colonial period throughout the nineteenth century as well as issues of identity, race and ethnicity, and military culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in South America. I have published on wide range of issues from economic to social history and have a special interest in intellectual history and constitutionalism. I am currently leading an international network on the reception and long term effects of the 1812 Constitution of Cadiz. My current book project is a monograph on the history of the army and the National Guard in Peru from 1800 to 1860.

My monograph The caudillo of the Andes: Andres de Santa Cruz has just been published by Cambridge University Press.

In 2009 and 2010 I carried out a pilot project to identify the most vulnerable nineteenth century newspapers in provincial cities in Peru funded by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme. See here

In 2010 was selected as one of the 21 Latin American Women living in England for the Bicentenario project. Our portraits were taken as well as this video interview.

Awards

2009-2010 - British Library Endangered Archives programme, pilot programme

2009 - John Carter Brown Library, Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellowship

2009 - Faculty Teaching Prize, University of Kent

2004-2005 - Yale University, Pre-doctoral fellowship on Order, Conflict and Violence, YCIAS

2004 June - Royal Historical Society, Conference travel grant

Postgrauate supervision

I currently supervise two doctoral students Alin Agustin whose project is on muralism in twentieth century Chile and Ines Ruiz who works through video to probe the memory of the forced sterilization programme during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori. I am happy to supervise a on a wide range of topics so do write to me.

Recent Publications

Books (single authored)

The caudillo of the Andes: Andres de Santa Cruz, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-89567-5

Journal Articles

“The Enduring power of Patronage in Peruvian elections: Quispicanchis 1860”, The Americas, (2010) vol 67, 1, pp. 31-55. ISSN – 0003-1615

“In Search of a Better Society: Constitutions in Peru” Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt, (2010) Num. 16, pp. 111-114. ISSN – 1619 – 4993

“Batallas por la legitimidad: constitucionalismo y conflicto político en el Perú del siglo diecinueve (1812-1860)” Revista de Indias,Seville, (2009) vol 69, No. 246, pp. 101-128. ISSN 0034 - 8341

Entre el Contrato Gibbs y el Contrato Grace: la participación británica en la economía peruana (1842-1890)” Revista Histórica,  Lima, (2003) vol. XXVII, no. 2, pp. 383-414.  ISSN – 0252 – 8894

Press Articles

GUARDIAN Comment is free Friday 17 June 2011
Peru's sterilisation victims still await compensation and justice

Chapters in Books

• 'Ciudadanos Armados': Las Guardias Nacionales en la construcción de la nación en el Perú de mediados del siglo diecinueve"  (reprinted in 2009) La arquitectura histórica del poder: Naciones, nacionalismos y estados en America Latina. Siglos XVIII, XIX y XX – 23pp. - El Colegio de Mexico. ISBN: 978-607-462-068-9.  Published in 2008 in Las armas de la nación. Independencia y ciudadanía en Hispanoamérica, 1750-1850  Madrid and Frankfurt: Veuvert Verlag, Iberoamericana. 23pp. - ISBN: 8484893324
• “Apertura y Diversidad: emigrados políticos latinoamericanos en la Lima de mediados del siglo diecinueve” La República Peregrina: Hombres de Armas y de Letras en América Andina, Lima: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos – 22pp. - ISBN: 9789972511714
• “Mid nineteenth-Century Ideological Radicalisation in Peru: The French Post-Revolutionary Influence” in Imported Modernity in Post-Colonial State Formation: The Appropriation of Political, Educational and Cultural Models in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Marcelo Caruso and Eugenia Roldán Vera eds., Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007 – click here
• “La Repatriación del Generalísimo: Agustín Gamarra y la construcción del imaginario nacional en Perú” in Funerales Republicanos en América del Sur: Tradición, ritual y nación, 1832-1896, Carmen Mc Evoy ed. Santiago: Bicentenario, 2006 – click here
• “Conflicto Regional, Guano y Poder” in Más allá de la dominación y la resistencia: ensayos de historia peruana, siglos xvi – xx, Paulo Drinot and Leo Garofalo eds., Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2005 – click here
  Reviews:
  The Americas – click here
  Journal of Latin American Studies – click here
  Nuevo Mundo – mundos nuevos – click here
• “El proyecto Liberal, la Revolución de 1854 y la Convención de 1855” in La Experiencia Burguesa Peruana (1840-1940) Carmen McEvoy ed., Madrid and Frankfurt: Veuvert Verlag, Iberoamericana, 2004 – click here
  Reviews
  Hispanic American Historical Review – click here
• “Entre el Contrato Gibbs y el Contrato Grace: la participación británica en la economía peruana (1842-1890)” in Revista Histórica, Lima, vol. XXVII, no. 2, December, 2003
• “The Influence of the European Revolutions of 1848 in Peru” in 1848 in the Americas, Guy Thompson ed., London, Institute of Latin American Studies, 2002
  Reviews
  Hispanic American Historical Review – click here
  The Americas – click here

Forthcoming

Books (co-edited)

Compendio de los sucesos ocurridos en el ejército del Perú y sus Provincias (1813-1816), Joaquín de la Pezuela co-edited with Pablo Ortemberg, Santiago de Chile: editorial Bicentenario publication expetcted in 2011

Journal Articles

“From Europe to the Andes and back: Becoming ‘Los Ayacuchos’” accepted for publication in the European Historical Quarterly – publication expected in 2011

“Colored by the Past: The Birth of the Armed Forces in Republican Peru” accepted for publication in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina, Tel Aviv – publication expected in 2011

Invited Talks

2010 Crete, Toronto, Mexico City, Bogota, Mendoza, Lima, London and Bristol

2009 Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Cambridge, and Providence Rhode Island

2008 Rio de Janeiro, Veracruz Mexico, Warwick, Saint Andrews, Leiden, and London

2007 Bristol, Montreal, Newcastle, Tepoztlan Mexico, and Atlanta Georgia

2006 Santander Spain, San Juan Puerto Rico, and New Haven Connecticut,

2005 Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Castellon de la Plana Spain, and Lima

2004 New Haven Connecticut, and Seville

2003 Oxford, Buenos Aires and Dallas Texas

2002 London and Norwich

2001 Lima and Washington DC

Undergraduate

• LS308 The Modern Spanish-American Short Story (in translation)
• LS319 State Building in Latin America
• LS541 Women in Spanish American Narrative and Film
• LS562 The Legacy of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
• LS563 Terrorism and State Terror in Latin America

Postgraduate

• LS810 History and Memory: Exploring the Independence period through Memoirs