Paola Uparela

Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Christianity
WSRP Research Associate 2026–27
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puparela@hds.harvard.edu

Education

  • BA, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
  • MA, PhD, University of Notre Dame

Profile

Paola Uparela is an Associate Professor of Colonial Studies at the University of Florida. She specializes in Early Modern, colonial, and transatlantic cultural studies; Latin American and Spanish literature; the history of medicine, art, and science; gender and sexuality studies; visual and material culture; medical humanities; Indigenous studies; and biopolitics. For more information, visit her profile page on the HDS Women's Studies in Religion Program website.

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