Paola REVILLA

Paola Revilla is PhD in History from the University of Chili and from the EHESS in Paris. She is a member of the Bolivian History Society, the Latin American Work and Workers Network (RedLatt), the Colonial and Modern Worlds Laboratory (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) and the international working group « Rethinking the Margins » (identities, discourses and practices in the face of the power of the Red Columnaria). She earned different scholarships and the last one was the Heinz Heinen Postdoctoral Fellow to work at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) at the University of Bonn in Germany. Revilla’s research gives particular emphasis to the analysis of the experience of captive and enslaved population in colonial cities, more specifically of African and Chiriguano Indians from the Low Lands of Charcas, current Plurinational State of Bolivia. Her reflection is nourished by recent academic work from social and labor history approaches, as well as from legal history and from the history of ideas and social practices. She’s currently a professor at the Bolivian Catholic University of “San Pablo” (UCB-SP) in La Paz, Bolivia. Her most recent book entitled « Entagled coercion. African and Indigenous Labor in Charcas (16th-17th centuries) » is part of the collection Work in Global Perspective edited by Andreas Eckert, Sidney Schaloub, Mahua, Sarkar, Dmitri van den Bersselaar, Christian G. De Vito (Berlín / Boston: The Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021, vol. 9).