Education
2018–2022
University of Teramoand Universityof Seville
Ph.D. in History of Europe Dissertation: Genoese merchantnetworks in theCastilian Atlantic(1450-1530)
University ofSt. Andrews
Erasmus Mundus Master inCrossways inCulturalNarratives 2014–2016
University ofEdinburgh
M.Sc. inRenaissance andEarlyModernStudies 2012–2013
NationalUniversityofColombiaatMedellín
B.A. inHistory 2006–2012
Employment
University of Trier Departmentof Early ModernHistory
Research Associate Oct 2025 – present
TRANSMARE Institute University of Trier
PostdoctoralFellow May2025 –Sep2025
Università degli Studi di Teramo PoliticalScience
PostdoctoralFellow Apr 2024– Mar2025
Deutsches HistorischesInstitut in Rom
Short-term Fellowin Digital Humanities Aug 2022–Oct2022
Publications
Peer-ReviewedArticles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Genoese consulate in Seville and Genoa’s French governor Ottaviano Fregoso. A proposal for the study of
guild-like institutionsthrough notarialarchivesandSocial NetworkAnalysis.”
European HistoryQuarterly (InPrint).
PrePrint-DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/5WP8H.
“TheMechanics of Finance: privateGenoeseenterprisesand marketfunctions inSeville (1460-1530).”
Financial HistoryReview, 2025,1–27.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565025000046.
“Motorsofproductionorhoardersofland. TheconflictsbetweentheGenoeseandCastilianauthoritiesregarding
land ownershipand sugarproductionintheCanary Islands (1489-1516).”
International Journal ofHumanitiesandSocialScience,Vol. 13, No. 6, 2023.
doi:10.30845/ijhss.v13n6p1.
Book Chapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Cities,Territories,and Conflict. Narrative andthe Colombian city in thesecond halfof the twentiethcentury.”
In JeremyTambling (ed.),ThePalgrave Handbook to Literature andthe City.
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_22.
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& Latham-Sprinkle, John. “From Networks of Influence to Networks of Slavers: The Late Medieval Caucasian Slave
Trade and the Genesisof theAfricanSlave Trade in the Atlantic.”
Past & Present (forthcoming).
Grant ProposalParticipation
Ministero dell’universitàe della ricerca,Piano nazionale di Ripresae Resilienza(PNRR) Contributo alla Realizzazionedi unDatabase sul Commercio dellePersone Ridotte in Schiavitù (secoliXV-XVI) €250,000
2023–2025
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PIs: Carlo Taviani (PI), Lina Scalisi(Co-PI).
Role: Conductedextensiveresearchandsynthesizedliteraturetosupportthebackgroundandsignificancesectionsoftheproposal.
Status: Approvedand funded.
OSCARS – HorizonEurope Project €250,000
MAONAS– Mediterranean and AtlanticOceanic Networks of Slavery 2025
Role: PrincipalInvestigator. Responsibleforconceptualizingresearchobjectives,writingthefullproposal,designingmethodologies,
preparing budgetand justification, ensuring compliance withEC guidelines.
Status: score 96/100, not funded.
Teaching Experience
National Universityof ColombiaatMedellín Renaissance Protoarcheology
Instructor of Record,UndergraduateCourse 2017–2018
National Universityof ColombiaatMedellín Renaissance Protoarcheology
Instructor of Record,UndergraduateCourse 2014–2015
ConferencePresentations
May 2025: “Capitalismandthe SlaveTrade in theEarlyAtlantic: TowardsaDigital Twin Model.”
International Symposium OnSpatiotemporalData Science,Harvard University, Cambridge,USA.
May 2022: “GovernorFregoso’sLetterto the GenoeseSevillian Nation(1520).”
International Congresson Medieval Studies, Western MichiganUniversity,Kalamazoo, USA(Panelist).
Mar2022: “TheGenoeseconsulateinSeville: astudyoftheprinciplesofassociationandimportanceofguild-like
economic institutions.”
41st Annual Conferenceof theCenter for Medieval Studies,Fordham University, New York,USA.
Languages& TechnicalSkills
Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Spanish (native), English (advanced), Italian (advanced), French (beginner), German (learning), Latin (reading and
paleography)
DigitalHumanitiesProficiencies.. ... . .. .. .. .. .... ..... ... . .... .. . . ..... .... . . . . .... .... . . . .. .... . ... .... . .... . ... ... . . .. . . .. .
Databases: MySQL,Microsoft SQL Server, CIDOC
Digital Mapping: Palladio, QGIS,ArcGIS,GeoPandas, Cartopy(Python)
References
Prof. Dr. OscarGelderblom,Professor,University of Antwerp
oscar.gelderblom@uantwerpen.be
Prof. Hannah Barker,Ph.D.,Professor,Arizona StateUniversity
Hannah.Barker.1@asu.edu
Dr. Jörg Hörnschemeyer,Research Associate
Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom
hoernschemeyer@dhi-roma.it