Yazar: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa (Barcelona, 1968) received his Ph.D. in History from Stony Brook, USA (August, 2001). He is (co)editor-in-chief of the journal Illes i Imperis and is currenly doing research at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities. He is a member of the research group Ethnographies, Cultural Encounters and Religious Missions in the Liberian World (ECERM-UPF) at the same University and “Conseguidores”: procuradores jesuitas y circuitos artísticos alternativos en el mundo hispánico (Pro Jes Art-UAM) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, as well as an associate member of the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) at the University of Guam. He specializes in colonial Latin American history, the ecclesiastical history of Peru and the Philippines, historical anthropology, and chronicles of the Indies. Some of his recent publications include (co-edited with David Atienza), Scars of Faith. Jesuit Letters from the Mariana Islands (1668-1684) (Institute of Jesuit Sources. Boston College, 2020) and (co-edited with Joao V. Melo), The Jesuit Encounters with Islam in the Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2023).