Rossana Barragán
Fellow
- E-mail: rba@iisg.nl
- Department: Research Fellows
Rossana Barragán has a Ph D. at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris; a Master's Degree at the University of Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne). She was professor of History at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (La Paz) and at the Post Graduate School in Social Sciences of CIDES-La Paz. She was director of the Historical Archive of the department and city of La Paz until 2010. She served for five years as director of the journal T'inkazos at the Program for Strategic Research (Programa de Investigaciones Estratégicas -PIEB- in Bolivia). She was in charge of the IISH Latin America Desk and now she is senior researcher at the IISH.
Current projects
In 2023 she published her book 'Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th—19th Centuries)'
She organized in May 2017 the Latin American and Caribbean Conference Trabajo y Trabajadores (“Work and Workers”) in La Paz, Bolivia. The result was the creation of a Labur network: REDLATT – Red Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajador@s (the Latin American Labour History Network). She is in charge of the WEB page together with Cristina Machicado and Amaru Villanueva.
Publications: Rossana Barragán R. – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
