Maria José Afanador-Llach holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin (United States) and is currently an assistant professor of digital humanities at the School of Arts and Humanities, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Her research is centered in two main areas: 1) the eighteenth century and the transition from colony to republic in northern South America through the lens of spatial practices, geographical imagination and political economy, and 2) digital humanities pedagogy, digital archives, digital history, spatial data curation, and cartographic narratives. She is editor of The Programming Historian en español and among her most recent publications is “Las Humanidades Digitales y los retos de acceso a la cultura en América Latina”, in Archivos abiertos. El patrimonio documental cubano y la transformación digital, Tobías Kraft, Antonio Rojas Castro y Grisel Terrón Quintero (eds.), vol. 19, Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el mundo, De Gruyter, 2024.
