2023-24 Graduate Student Research Fellow
About
Augusto is a historian of colonial Spanish America. His dissertation, “Agents of Faith: Religious Economic Engagement in the Early Colonial Spanish American World,” illuminates the expectations, experiences, motivations, and contingencies of an array of interconnected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century nuns, clergymen, and inquisitors in Lima, the capital of Spain’s southernmost American viceroyalty of Peru.
During his time at the Eisenberg Institute, Augusto will continue work on his dissertation. He also plans to focus on a series of judicial cases he has collected from the archives, analyzing the experiences of various churchmen who were brought to justice in the ecclesiastical courts of Lima and Mexico City accused of the crime of usury. This research will be the focus of a forthcoming article and incorporated into his dissertation.
