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Eleonora Poggio is a Professor at Linnaeus University’s Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She specializes in early modern global and colonial history, focusing on non-Spanish Europeans in the Spanish Empire and colonial Latin America (16th–18th centuries). Her research integrates migration, political, economic, and social history, using actor-centered methodologies like prosopography and network analysis. She currently leads projects such as the Global Atlantic Pacific Connections Network (GATPAC) and 'Shaping foreignness,' funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Teaching includes coordinating the Global Humanities Ph.D. Program’s weekly seminar and supervising Ph.D. candidates like Franklin Martínez. She co-leads the Cluster for Global Connections and Comparisons and the Global Humanities Ph.D. Program. Her work challenges colonial exceptionalism narratives, emphasizing transnational and multiethnic dimensions of empire-building.
Recent publications include analyses of economic warfare in New Spain during the Thirty Years’ War and treaties between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate. Her research spans archival sources from the Americas, Europe, and Southeast Asia, addressing global migration, hybrid identities, and colonial systems’ interplay with imperial policies.
