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Her current research project focuses on the role that colonial icons have played in the creation of Chilean national��identity, with specific attention to the icon of the deviant colonial female ("La Quintrala") and the treacherous natige go-between ("Lautaro").�� In this area, she has published her piece��"Gender, colonial past, national identity, and��mestizaje in Chile: The many faces of 'La Quintrala'��"�� in a recent issue of��History Compass.��

An avid traveler, Dr. Marsilli has resided and completed extensive archival research in Peru, Chile, Spain, Italy, and Austria.

Her teaching interests include native-Hispanic acculturation, the making and unmaking of Spanish colonialism in the New World, native religious syncretism, race and gender in Latin America.��

Teaching Repertoire

• HS 1473 “Colonial Latin American History”
• HS 1474 “Modern Latin America”
• HS 2478 "Cuba: Past and Present"
• HS 3472 “Race and Gender in Latin American History”
• HS 3473��“Women and the Catholic Church”
• HS 4477 “Che Guevara: The man, the myth, the icon”
• HS 4476��“The Incas”

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Forthcoming Publications

Co-editor of book:��Culto a los Ancestros, Hechicería y Resistencia Colonial. El Caso de Gregorio Taco, Arequipa, 1750. Forthcoming in��DIBAM��(Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos) publications, Education Ministry of Chile.

“History: Colonial Chile and New Granada” section of the��Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 66, by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

“Volcanes Locuaces e Inextinguible Fuego Interior: La Erupción del Huaynaputina en 1600 en la narrativa Jesuítica,” in:��Escritura, Imaginación Política y la Compañía de Jesús (siglos��XVI-XVIII), Teodoro Hampe-Martínez and Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, eds., Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.

“Carreras eclesiásticas y extirpación de idolatrías: La doctrina de Camiña, Siglo XVII”, in co-authorship with Jorge Hidalgo and Julio Aguilar, in:��Chungará. Revista de Antropología Chilena.

Recent Publications

• “Los Senderos de la Idolatría: El viaje de Vázquez de Espinosa por los Altos de Arica, 1618”��in co-authorship with Priscilla Cisternas, in:��Chungara. Revista de Antropología Chilena, Vol. 42, No.1, pp.465-476.

• Reflective piece:����in: Chungara. Revista de Antropología Chilena, Vol. 42, No.1, 2010, pp. 89-91.

• “Missing Idolatry: Mid-Colonial Interactions between Parish Priests and Indians in the Colonial Diocese of Arequipa,”��Colonial Latin American Historical Review��(CLAHR), Vol. 13, number 4, 399-421, (Fall 2004, copyright 2007).

• “Native Americans: Central and Southern Andes,” “Chile,” “Cronistas,” and “Kuracas”, entries for��Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, J. Michael Francis, ed., (Santa Barbara, California:��ABC-CLIO, 2006).

• “I heard it through the grapevine: Analysis of an anti-secularization initiative in the sixteenth-century Arequipan countryside, 1584-1600”��The Americas��61(4) April 2005, 647-672.

• “Todo en Familia: Herejes, Hechiceros e Idólatras en Arequipa Colonial,” 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,) 77-103.

• “Testamentos indígenas en Arequipa Colonial” in Nanda Leonardini, David Rodríguez, and Virgilio Freddy Cabanillas, comps.,��Imagen de la Muerte. Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades��(Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2004,)173-181.

Research

• Evaluator for Colonial Latin American Historical Review (CLAHR).
• Scientific Evaluator for CONICYT (Comisión Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología,) Ministry of Education, ��Chile.
• Contributing Editor to the��Handbook of Latin American Studies.
• International Researcher, CIHDE,��Centro de Investigaciones del Hombre en el Desierto��(Center for Studies of Human Life in Deserts), Chile.
• Director of Fondecyt Project No. 3060120, “Religiosidad Andina Colonial en el Norte de Chile,” research grant from the Chilean Ministry of Education, 2006-2007.

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