Ximena Abello Hurtado

Ximena Abello Hurtado is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Critical Race & Political Economy at Mount Holyoke College. She specializes in historical research intersecting race, gender, and political economy in South America.

• Author of Relato Histórico Nacional Colombiano and Partus Sequitur Ventrem
• Co-authored Demando mi libertad, winner of the 2020 Monserrat Ordóñez LASA Prize

Her research focuses on:

• Black decolonial feminisms
• Afro-South American experiences
• Black girl studies
• Global Afro-Diasporic connections

Recent publications analyze 18th-century Black women's resistance in colonial Latin America. She is currently working on a book manuscript about enslaved Black women writers in Spanish South America.

Scientific awards include:

• Monserrat Ordóñez LASA Prize (2020)
• Whiting Fellowship (2022)

She will conduct archival research at the Vatican Apostolic Archive.