Madrid Institute for Advanced Study
Spain
fellow
Malena López Palmero
2025-2026
Home institution
Universidad de San Martín (UNSAM) y Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Discipline(s)
Modern history; Psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Theme(s)
Other
Fellowship dates
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Biography
She is a Francois Chevalier fellow at MIAS.
Malena López Palmero is a History Teacher in Middle and High Education (2005) and PhD in History (2014) at the University of Buenos Aires. She teaches History of the United States of America at the University of Buenos Aires, National University of San Martín and the National Pedagogic University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been invited as a professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (París, Francia), at the Southwest University (Chongquing, China), and at the Universidade Federal de Mina Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brasil). She has specialized in the early colonization of Virginia (XVI-XVII centuries), and she currently researches the origins of the colonization of Florida (XVI century). She is the author of numerous articles on her specialty and the book Del paraíso ultramarino al infierno colonial: Virginia (siglos XVI-XVII) (2023).
Research Project
Florida at a crossroads: strategies of colonisation and representations
The research inquiries into the strategies deployed by the colonizer agents, both French (1562-1565) and Spanish (1565-1600), and the way in which they transmitted their experiences in textual and visual testimonies, with the aim of presenting the account of the early colonization of Florida that focuses both on global and local aspects. For that purpose, three analytical axes will be taken into account: 1) the relationship between settlers and native populations, along with their representations; 2) the balance of forces between France and Spain in their Overseas campaigns, which involves both diplomatic actions and the wider spread of discourses articulated with the so-called “Black Legend”; and 3) the agency of certain historical characters who, along with their social networks, had a remarkable position in the process of affirmation of the Spanish rule in Florida.
Research Interests:
History; early colonization