Dr. Natalie Cobo
Forschungsinteressen
- Spanish colonialism
- The early modern Philippines
- The development of normative regimes in Iberian colonial contexts
- The translation of early modern Latin legal texts
Vita
Since 07/2025
Affiliate Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.
2016–2024
DPhil, Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Supervised by Prof. Alan Strathern. Thesis: Conversion, ethnology, and law in the conquest of the Philippines.
2016–2021
External Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History).
Since 2015
Co-founder and board member. A registered non-profit foundation based in Colombia devoted to digitising the holdings of endangered archives and libraries in Latin America and promoting the digital humanities. www.neogranadina.org
2013–2014
MPhil, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Supervised by Prof. Carrie Vout. Thesis: Infanticide in Ancient Art.
2010–2013
BA, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Publikationen
Books
Cobo, N. with Juan Cobo Betancourt: La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el periodo colonial [The legislation of the Archdiocese of Santafé in the colonial period]. Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (2018).
Contributions to Collected Volumes
Cobo, N.: ‘Two friars protest the restriction on missionaries traveling to Japan (1605)’, in The Spanish Pacific, 1521–1815: A Reader of Primary Sources, volume II, ed. Cristina Lee and Ricardo Padrón. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024).
Cobo, N.: ‘Creating authority and promoting normative behaviour: confession, restitution, and moral theology in the Synod of Manila (1581–82)’, in The School of Salamanca: a case of global knowledge production, ed. Thomas Duve and José Luis Egio. Leiden: Brill (2020).
Cobo, N. with Tatiana Seijas: ‘Trade between the Philippines and New Spain (1604)’, in The Spanish Pacific, 1521–1815: A Reader of Primary Sources, ed. Cristina Lee and Ricardo Padrón. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020).
Book Reviews
Cobo, N.: ‘Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World. By Kristie Patricia Flannery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 288 pp. $55.00’, Journal of Social History, 2025.