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Viviana Quintero Marquez is a historian specializing in Afro-Atlantic and colonial history, currently serving as a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Merced, in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2016), and a Ph.D. in Atlantic History from Vanderbilt University (2024). Her research explores intersections of race, medicine, and violence in Latin American and Caribbean contexts.
- Education:
- B.A., Philosophy, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- M.A., Latin American and Caribbean History, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2016)
- Ph.D., Atlantic History, Vanderbilt University (2024)
Her publications analyze the social and cultural history of the multiracial Atlantic, focusing on marginalized communities' embodied memories and state responses to gendered violence in conflict zones. Articles span topics like colonial resistance, forensic approaches to sexual violence, and archival preservation of Afro-descendant narratives.
She has received prestigious awards including:
- University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024–2026)
- John Carter Brown Library Fellowship (2023)
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2022)
- SSRC-Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship
