#  Paola Uparela 

Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Christianity

WSRP Research Associate 2026–27

 

 

 



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 email <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](https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/people/paola-uparela) on the HDS Women's Studies in Religion Program website.

## Courses

[All Harvard courses](https://my.harvard.edu)



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Affiliation
    
     [Faculty](/affiliation/faculty)
- ## Alpha Grouping
    
     [U-Z](/alpha-grouping/u-z)
- ## Faculty Type
    
     [Visiting Faculty](/faculty-type/visiting-faculty)