CONTRIBUTOR:

Paulina Machuca

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DEPARTMENT:

Center for the Study for History

INSTITUTION:

El Colegio de Michoacán

BIOGRAPHY:

Paulina Machuca is a research professor at El Colegio de Michoacán (Mexico). In recent years, he has specialized in the history of cultural exchanges between Mexico and the Philippines during the 16th to 18th centuries. To this end, he has carried out ethnographic work in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao (Philippines) in different years, as well as documentary research in archives in Mexico, Spain and the Philippines. Among the most recent scientific production are the book coordinated with Thomas Calvo (2016), México y Filipinas: culturas y memorias sobre el Pacífico, under the seal of El Colegio de Michoacán and Ateneo de Manila University; El vino de cocos en la Nueva España: historia de una transculturación en el siglo XVII (El Colegio de Michoacán, 2018); Historia mínima de Filipinas (El Colegio de México, 2019), Las Filipinas, ¿una periferia global? Gobernar y vivir en los confines del Imperio hispano (Presses universitaires du Midi, El Colegio de Michoacán, 2022). In 2013, she directed the documentary Hacer tuba en México y Filipinas: cuatro siglos de historia compartida (available on YouTube). She is the author of various articles in refereed journals and book chapters in national and international publications. She is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level 2. In 2011 she received the Scholarship for Women in the Humanities, a distinction granted by the Presidency of the Mexican Republic and CONACYT, and in 2019 she obtained the INAH Francisco Javier Clavijero Award for the best research history, with the book El vino de cocos en la Nueva España.