Guillaume Candela was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Curation at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University between 2019 and 2020. Candela is a historian who specializes in colonial Latin America, Spanish paleography and digital humanities. He recently developed a digital initiative titled Indigenous Echoes – Rio de la Plata and is currently involved in two other DH projects, serving as a senior research associate for Native Bound-Unbound and as a collaborator with the New Spain Fleets. His publications have explored diverse themes such as the history of the Tupí-Guaraní people, colonialism and missionary linguistics, social history, women’s history, and religious history. In many of his publications, he focuses on understanding the impact of colonization on Indigenous, African, and Afro-descent people using a multidisciplinary approach. He holds a PhD in Hispanic and Latin American Studies from the Sorbonne University and has lived and taught in France, Spain, Paraguay, the USA, and the UK.
