Dr. Escanilla Huerta is a scholar of Latin America, born and raised in Argentina. She specializes in the process of Independence in Peru and Bolivia, focusing on Indigenous Peoples and Political History. Her current book manuscript analyzes how Indigenous political mobilization in the form of guerrilla warfare established a network of insurgency that connected a vast geographical region beyond the boundaries of the viceroyalty of Peru during the decade of 1810. Based on archival research in the United States, Spain, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, Dr. Escanilla Huerta’s manuscript shows how indigenous militias played a significant role in the fragmentation of the imperial political order in the region, and they also helped define what sovereignty meant after independence. Dr. Escanilla Huerta’s research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), the American Historical Association, the Tinker Foundation, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. She has published several book chapters and articles in journals such as American Hispanic Historical Review and Revista de Indias. At UMBC, Dr. Escanilla Huerta will teach a course on Colonial Latin America, and she is excited to bring courses centered on Latin America and the Latin American experience to the History department.