Juan Cobo Betancourt

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Announcing New ODH Awards (January 2025) These 13 projects are part of a larger slate of 219 awards announced by NEH. We are truly excited about this round of awards, which demonstrate the breadth of groundbreaking work currently being done ...

Congratulations to all of ODH's new DHAG awardees! @archsw.bsky.social @cfletche.bsky.social @juancobo.bsky.social @smunozar.bsky.social @clairearthur.bsky.social @andrewmbyrd.bsky.social @dasmiq.bsky.social

www.neh.gov/blog/announcing-new-odh-awards-january-2025

Thank you! We’re so excited!

Sí!! Gracias!

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is pleased to release the CFP for the Start-Your-Project award. This award is specifically designed to support small digital projects at various stages of development. Applications are due 1/27/25.

Thanks, Scott!

I'm so grateful for the support and encouragement of the many people and institutions that made this book possible, and excited to learn what you make of it. 5/5

religious change under colonialism as a collective and participatory enterprise, beyond that of missionary success; and the limited archives of regions and periods like this, foregrounding the histories of knowledge production that shaped their creation and how we still tend to interpret them. 4/5

It offers a new interpretation of the history of the Northern Andes under colonial rule, demonstrating the limitations of Peruvian and Mexican models for understanding the rest of the Spanish empire. Also new methodologies for exploring colonial governance beyond the paradigm of state formation; 3/5

¡Gracias!

It is a history of colonialism, religious reform, law, and historical writing that explores the engagement of the Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada with Christianity, in the context of the construction of Spanish colonial rule and of Catholic or Counter Reformation. 2/5

The Coming of the Kingdom Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Coming of the Kingdom

I’m delighted to announce that my new book, The Coming of the Kingdom: the Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada has just come out in open access digital form (hardcover to follow shortly). It is free to download and read at the link below. 1/5

Open Source Programs Specialist University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

In case anyone is interested in joining the Department of Research Data Services at the UCSB Library, we are looking for an Open Source Programs Specialist to support open source software discovery and sustainability for UCSB scholars and students. Details: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02893

I spend much of the rest of my time working collaboratively as part of neogranadina.org digitising archives in Latin America, making tools to make this work possible and accessible everywhere, and developing public-facing projects to bring historical knowledge to different audiences.

👋 Hello Bluesky! I am a historian of the colonial Northern Andes. My latest book, The Coming of the Kingdom, a history of the Muisca peoples under colonial rule, religious change, archives, and the workings of empire, is coming out next month (unless CUP gets hacked again).