PhD Program & Course Instructor (Fall 2023)
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Atlantic World
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Food
- Latin America and Caribbean
- Migration/Diaspora
Areas of Interest
Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean ; Food Studies ; Environmental History ; Race and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean
Working Dissertation
Title
Riverine Realities: Free People of Colour, Food, and Ecology Along Colombia’s Magdalena River, 1750-1850
Supervisors
Jeffrey Pilcher
Tamara Walker
Biography
Valeria Mantilla Morales is a historian of Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. Her current dissertation research is a journey from the 1750s to the 1850s on Colombia's Magdalena River, reaching into the amphibious lives of free people of colour along this body of water to reconstruct cultural visions around food and the commons, race, and the environment in Latin America.
Awards
- 2023 Graduate Fellowship Culinaria Research Centre, University of Toronto
- 2023 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 2022 Doctoral Fellowship Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council
- 2022 Director’s New Initiative Fellowship John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
- 2019 Natalie Zemon Davis Fellowship University of Toronto
- 2018 Government of Canada History Award
- 2017 C.P. Stacey-Connaught Graduate Fellowship University of Toronto
Education
PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
MA, University of Guelph (2017)
BA, University of Toronto (2014)
Cohort
- 2017-2018