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Thomas Calvo

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El Colegio de Michoacán

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Thomas Calvo obtained his PhD (Doctorat d’État) from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is professor emeritus at the University of Paris-Ouest (Nanterre). He is currently a research professor at El Colegio de Michoacán (Mexico), and his lines of interest focus on the political and cultural processes in the Hispanic Monarchy of the 17th century. He has published various books, among the most recent are México y Filipinas: culturas y memorias sobre el Pacífico with Paulina Machuca (El Colegio de Michoacán, Ateneo de Manila University, 2016). His most recent work was published by the prestigious Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in 2019, entitled Espadas y plumas en la monarquía hispana. Alonso de Contreras y otras vidas de soldados (1600-1650). The edition of an extensive autobiography of a Spanish Jesuit, Felipe Frutos, who was a treasury administrator in Mexico around 1700, is in press in Madrid. He is also the author of a series of articles and book chapters that address topics such as the Japanese in Guadalajara during the 17th century, the culture and art of governing in the Hispanic monarchy, the El Niño phenomenon and its relationship with the Manila Galleon and, recently, the minuscule lives of characters in the colonial framework. He is a member of the National System of Researchers Level 3 and a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of History. In 2018, he received the Foreign Researcher Mention from the Banamex Foundation through the Atanasio G. Saravia Award.