Miguel Rosas Buendia

Miguel Rosas Buendia is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages. Originally from Lima, Peru, he earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University. His research interests include history of science, historiography, indigenous studies, and environmental studies in Latin America. Through the study of literary and scientific primary sources, he explores how these materials engaged and responded to historiographical, epistemic, and political challenges during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among different topics, he is particularly interested in the conceptualization of environments with natural resources and of the past and present of indigenous peoples. His book manuscript, in progress, examines these issues through the transatlantic intellectual trajectory, governmental work, and academic writings of the Peruvian scientist and antiquarian Mariano de Rivero (1798-1857). He has also published on poetry and travel writing, and examined the intersections between natural sciences, mining, and aesthetics in a global context.