Elizabeth Montañez-Sanabria is responsible researcher of the project “Circulation Networks: Information and Material Culture in Spanish America under the Habsburg rule, 16th -17th centuries” (CONICYT REDI170635) between the PUCV (Chile) and Graz University (Austria). She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Davis (2014), with a dissertation about the role of piracy in the opening of the South Sea between 1570-1750. She has been Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Researcher at the UCLA Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies (2014-2015) and FONDECYT Postdoctoral Researcher (2015-2018). She received several fellowships, including twice as fellow-in-residence at the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University), the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World (Harvard University), the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program (UC), and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture & US Universities. Her current research project is “Piracy and Mapping.”
Elizabeth Montañez-Sanabria es investigadora principal del proyecto “Redes de circulación: Información y cultura material en América bajo el gobierno de los Austrias, s. XVI-XVII” (CONICYT REDI170635) entre la PUCV (Chile) y la Universidad de Graz (Austria). Obtuvo su doctorado en Historia de la Universidad de California, Davis (2014) con una tesis sobre el rol de la piratería en la apertura del Mar del Sur entre 1570 y 1750. Ha sido investigadora postdoctoral Ahmanson-Getty en el Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies de UCLA (2014-2015) e investigadora postdoctoral FONDECYT (2015-2018). Entre las becas que ha recibido se encuentran, dos veces fellow-in-residence en la the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University), el International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World (Harvard University), el University of California Pacific Rim Research Program (UC), y el Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture & US Universities. Su actual Proyecto de investigación se llama “Piratas y Mapas”.
