New Visiting Pre-doctoral Fellow
April 29, 2026
Yaret Verónica Sánchez Barón, a doctoral student in the History of the Andes program at FLACSO Ecuador, is completing a three-month doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University as a Visiting Pre-doctoral Fellow, affiliated with the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Andean Cultures and Histories working group.
During this academic stay, she is working under the supervision of Professor Jorge Coronado in an academic exchange that supports the development of her doctoral research titled "Between Nationalism and Imperialism: Andean Archaeologies in U.S., Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian Exhibition and Knowledge Circuits (1893–1915)," directed by Professor María Fernanda Troya.
As part of her research agenda, she will conduct archival work at the Field Museum and the Newberry Library in Chicago; at the National Anthropological Archives in Maryland; at the Peabody Museum archives in Boston; and at the American Museum of Natural History archives in New York City.
In addition, in May she will participate in a conference on the history of Ecuador: "The History of Ecuador in the 19th and 20th Centuries: New Readings, New Historiographies?" organized by the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas and the University of Paris-Nanterre.
Yaret Verónica Sánchez Barón holds a BA (2019) and an MA (2022) in Art History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She is currently a PhD candidate in the History of the Andes at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Ecuador. The title of her doctoral research is “Entre el nacionalismo y el imperialismo: Arqueologías andinas en los circuitos de exhibición y conocimiento estadounidense y de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú (1893–1915)”. This focuses on the history of Andean archaeology. It also looks at its relationship to the political history of ties between the United States, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru. In addition, it examines the nexus between diplomatic agendas, geopolitics, and the development of the study of the pre-Hispanic past. Her research interests are focused on the history of archaeology, travellers and visual culture, and the indigenous art of the Americas, with a particular emphasis on the textile traditions of the Otomapame groups.
