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Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez

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Asst Prof of History, UT Austin. I write about Indigenous history, the Spanish empire, and the history of maps. I also do Digital History projects. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-new-kingdom-of-granada | https://colonial-landscapes.com | neogranadina.org

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One more reason to buy my book--support academic publishers!

www.dukeupress.edu/the-new-king...

04.06.2025 12:21 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

02.06.2025 03:12 — 👍 196    🔁 91    💬 9    📌 31
Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.

Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.

Among our exciting new titles out this May is "The New Kingdom of Granada" by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. #History #LatinAmericanStudies
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01.05.2025 16:31 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The meeting will take place at the John Carter Brown Library in November 13-14, 2025. The deadline for submissions is June 1st.

16.04.2025 12:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 Meeting Call for Proposals

The CFP for the 2025 Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America is open!

It is a wonderful opportunity to share your work, get feedback, and meet colleagues. I highly recommend!

thesouthwestseminar.org/2025-meeting/

16.04.2025 12:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.

Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.

Cover of The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life by Brian Massumi. The background is black and has images of dozens of tiny individual people in different poses. The author's name is in white text at the top, the title in red in the middle-right, and the subtitle in white below.

Cover of The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life by Brian Massumi. The background is black and has images of dozens of tiny individual people in different poses. The author's name is in white text at the top, the title in red in the middle-right, and the subtitle in white below.

Among the great new titles we have coming out this April are "The New Kingdom of Granada" by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez and "The Personality of Power" by Brian Massumi.
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01.04.2025 13:04 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Working with you was wonderful and enlightening - I learned so much! Thanks again for everything :)

25.03.2025 22:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi everyone, my book is here!! And there‘s a 50% off flash discount at Duke today and tomorrow using FLASH50!!

25.03.2025 14:35 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Save the date!

The 2025 Lozano Long Conference
"Urban Entanglements: Centering Marginalized Lives and Ecologies in Latin America"

March 26: School of Architecture
March 27–28: Eastwoods Room (UNB 2.102), Texas Union Building
Free and open to the public.

sites.utexas.edu/lozanolongco...

19.02.2025 19:13 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: secretary@ach.org. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw

12.03.2025 16:31 — 👍 116    🔁 109    💬 1    📌 20
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Check out what an exciting month we have ahead of us! So many news stories you need to read and events you don’t want to miss.

Read our E-Newsletter for March 1-15, 2025

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28.02.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I'm excited too! And would love to celebrate with you in the future as well. I am still waiting to see my book cover, but will also share when it's done :)

12.02.2025 12:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Welcome to the BlueSky account for the Institute for Historical Studies at UT Austin! 🎉 We’re excited to bring you the latest IHS news & events. This spring, we have a great lineup—with events both in-person & via Zoom. Take a sneak peek at our calendar: bit.ly/3ZcsdXH, with even more to come!

11.02.2025 18:29 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

I love the cover, Emma! Congrats!!!

11.02.2025 02:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Foro Urgente about the #PanamaCanal at UT Austin

500 Years in the Making: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Panama Canal
Marixa Lasso, Tinker Visiting Professor
Jonathan Brown
Moderator: Zach Elkins

Learn more here: shorturl.at/f8per

See map bit.ly/3jOxdRz

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21.01.2025 14:42 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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Yes, you read that right!!!
LLILAS and the Mexico Center are hosting #GaelGarciaBernal

Cine y poder: diálogos del territorio
March 12 |5pm | UT Austin
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation.

Free and open to the public.

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/wt4fbeyc

Learn more: tinyurl.com/4as7vy6w

22.01.2025 21:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

@neogranadina.org #ethnohistory

02.01.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This excellent new book is an innovative, in-depth study of the evangelization project in the New Kingdom of Granada centering Indigenous peoples and exploring its impacts on governance, law making, and linguistics. It a truly remarkable piece of scholarship. Check it out!

02.01.2025 13:53 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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