Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga

Researcher
Research Field Coordinator
ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-2690-1734

Main Focus

  • Legal History of Ibero-America
  • History of moral theology and canon law in Ibero-America
  • Cultural and legal history in the Nuevo Reino de Granada
  • Modern Inquisition

Projects

Research Seminars

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2013
Researcher at the MPI for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly MPI for European Legal History), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

2017
PhD, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
“La “superstición” como delito y sus transformaciones ante el tribunal inquisitorial de Cartagena de Indias (s.XVII-XVIII)”

2010–2013
Member of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Comparative Legal History at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

2006–2007
Researcher at the Caro y Cuervo Institute, Colombia.

2004–2005
Research scholarship, Program for Research in Colonial History, Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH).
Project: “Imágenes sagradas y rostros del dominio colonial, Santafé de Bogota, siglo XVII”

2004
MA, History of the Hispanic World. Instituto de Historia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, Spain.
“Iconografía de las imágenes sagradas: análisis histórico de la apariciones marianas americanas (s.XVI-XVIII)”

2003–2004
Master Scholarship, Foundation Carolina, Spain.

2001–2003
Research assistant for the historical area (16th-19th century) of the project: “Memoria histórico – cultural de los habitantes del Altiplano cundiboyacense, siglos XVI-XX”, Centro de Estudios Socioculturales (CESO) Universidad de los Andes, Royal Embassy of the Netherlands, Gobernación de Cundinamarca, CAR.

2001
BA, Anthropology and History at the University de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

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