Eleonora Poggio
ResearcherResearch
I investigate migration, social categorization, membership regimes, and identification in colonial Latin America. In my research, I have also dealt with the formation of an association between foreigners and Protestant heresy in colonial Mexico as well as simulation strategies and ways of resistance. I have predominantly worked on tracing how the foreigner category was shaped during the 16th and 17th centuries.
I hold a Ph.D. in History from Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, 2016 (financed by CSIC, the Spanish National Research Council). My dissertation was about Dutch and German labor and merchant migration in colonial Mexico.
Currently, I have a project about economic warfare, where I research economic reprisals against European foreigners in the Spanish colonies during the 17th century (financed by VR, the Swedish Research Council). I have also been granted a new VR project on the effects of State action on social categorization processes in colonial Latin America.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
- Poggio Ghilarducci, E. (2011). Las composiciones de extranjeros en la Nueva España, 1595–1700. Cuadernos de Historia Moderna. 10. 177-193.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Herrero, S., Poggio, E. (2012). El impacto de la tregua en las comunidades extranjeras : Una visión comparada entre Sevilla y Nueva España. El arte de la prudencia : La tregua de los Doce Años en la Europa de los pacificadores. Madrid, Fundación Carlos de Amberes. 249-273.
- Poggio, E. (2009). Garder la foi dans le cæur : Nicodémistes en Nouvelle Spagne, 1597-1601. Arts et Sociétés en Amérique Latien : La transgression dans tous ses états. Paris, L'Harmattan. 29-47.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Poggio, E. (2007). La migración de europeos septentrionales a la Nueva España a través de los documentos inquisitoriales a finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII. Orbis incognitvs : avisos y legajos del Nuevo Mundo. Homenaje al profesor Luis Navarro García, Vol. 2. Huelva, Universidad de Huelva. 469-477.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Poggio, E. (2016). Foráneos y arraigados : Migración, inclusión y exclusión social de neerlandeses y alemanes en Nueva España, 1560-1650. Doctoral Thesis. Seville, Universidad Pablo de Olavide. 346.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Poggio, E. (2004). Extranjeros protestantes en la Nueva España : Una comunidad de flamencos, neerlandeses y alemanes (1597-1601). Licentiate Thesis. Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 278.