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About Lisette Varon Carvajal
Candidata a Doctora en Historia en la Universidad de Rutgers de New Jersey, Lisette estudia la historia de la medicina popular en Colombia durante los siglos XVIII y XIX. Su proyecto de tesis titulado “Mujeres cuidadoras: parteras y curanderas en la Nueva Granada, 1700-1850”, investiga la vida y las prácticas médicas de parteras y curanderas en la Nueva Granada, actual Colombia, entre 1700 y 1850. Lo que diferencia el proyecto de Lisette de narrativas históricas más tradicionales, es que entrevista a 20 trabajadores de salud contemporáneos (parteras, doulas y médicas) para examinar el resurgimiento de la partería y la medicina tradicional en Colombia. Este material le permite reflexionar sobre la construcción de memoria, la creación de narrativas históricas relacionadas con el cuidado e historias globales la medicina y cuidado. Su investigación doctoral ha recibido el apoyo de la Fundación Andrew Mellon así como de la National Science Foundation. Lisette estudió su pregrado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de los Andes, donde además hizo opción en Historia y Derecho. Después de graduarse trabajó en la ONG Sisma Mujer y en la Secretaría de la Mujer de Bogotá, donde investigó temas de violencia de género, acceso a la información y violencia sexual en el marco del conflicto armado.
Lisette Varón-Carvajal is a PhD Candidate in history at Rutgers, studying the history of popular medicine in Colombia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her dissertation project titled “Caring Women: Midwives and Female Healers in New Granada, 1700-1850”, investigates midwives' and female healers' lives and medical practices in New Granada, present-day Colombia, between 1700 and 1850. What sets Lisette’s project apart from traditional historical narratives is that she interviews 20 contemporary medical practitioners (midwives, doulas, and doctors) to examine the resurgence of midwifery and traditional healing practices in Colombia's present medical landscape. This material permits her to reflect on memory-making, the creation of historical narratives related to care, and global histories of medicine and care. Lisette's research has received the support of the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Lisette received her BA from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and she has worked with feminist and governmental organizations on topics of sexual and domestic violence in Colombia.NBN Episodes hosted by Lisette:
December 31, 2023
Taking Children
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July 1, 2022
Bedlam in the New World
In Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment (UNC Press, 2022), Christina Ramos tells us the story of Mexico city’s olde…
November 8, 2021
The Gray Zones of Medicine
Edited by Diego Armus and Pablo Gómez, The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press 2021) tell the…
August 16, 2021
Baptism Through Incision
In 1804, King Charles IV of Spain enacted a royal order mandating the postmortem cesarean procedure in all of Spain's dominions. The Audiencia de Guat…
March 22, 2021
As If She Were Free
Edited by Drs. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, As if She Were Free (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a collective biography of A…
February 5, 2021
Fifth Sun
In her latest book Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press 2020), Camilla Townsend tells the story of the Aztecs from their pe…
January 12, 2021
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
In The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Makin (University of North Carolina Press 2020), Dr. Sharika …
December 17, 2020
A Living Past
A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America (Berghahn Books, 2018) is a wonderful collection that seeks to provide a general overvi…
September 16, 2020
Managing Multiculturalism
In Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia (Stanford University Press) Jean Jackson narrates her remarkable jou…
September 2, 2020
Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America
Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (University of Florida Press 2020), a collection edited by María del Pilar Blanco …
July 29, 2020
The Sexual Question
Paulo Drinot’s The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s (Cambridge University Press, 2020) studies the interplay of sexuali…
July 16, 2020
Carving a Niche
In Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico 1800-1870 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), Luz María Hernández Sáenz follows the trajecto…
May 19, 2020
Forgotten Peace
In Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia (University of California Press 2017), Robert Karl explores how Colombian…
May 8, 2020
Fatal Love
In his book Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic (Stanford University Press 2016), Victor Uribe-Urán…
April 15, 2020
Marijuana Boom
In her recently published book Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (University of California Press 2020), Lina Britto …
March 13, 2020
Mapping the Country of Regions
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chorographic Commission of Colombia, an ambitious geographical expedition, set out to define and map a nascent and …
December 11, 2019
The Ideology of the Creole Revolution
Joshua Simon’s The Ideology of the Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought published by Cambr…
November 18, 2019
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
David Wheat’s fantastic book Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) argues that the extensive…
September 26, 2019
Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico
Nora Jaffary’s Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 (University of North Carolina Press. 2016), …
September 23, 2019
Landscapes of Freedom
Claudia Leal’s Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (University of Arizona Press, 2018), …
September 2, 2019
The Enlightenment on Trial
Bianca Premo’s award-winning book The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire, published by Oxford University…
July 9, 2019
Crafting a Republic for the World
Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia. In this fascinating book, wel…