Chuecas Saldias Ignacio, PhD

Personal resume

Titular Professor at the School of History of the Faculty of Humanities and Communications, member of the CIDOC Research Center, and director of the Interdisciplinary Doctorate Program in Humanities at Finis Terrae University (Santiago, Chile). Ph.D. from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome (Italy) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Awarded for excellence in doctoral thesis in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences by the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Visiting Assistant in Research (VAR) at Yale University (USA). Holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree from the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster (Germany). His research focuses on colonial and frontier phenomena during the early modern period in the Spanish Empire. He has specialized in the Portuguese diaspora in the lands of the Spanish king, especially in the New Christian, converso, and Judaizing communities. His work includes perspectives of social history (family networks and agencies) and material culture (circulation of knowledge and objects in the New Christian diaspora). A significant aspect of his research has been focused on Judeo-Spanish prayer books (siddurim) and their circulation among Judaizing circles in Europe and America. Currently, he is the lead researcher for the following projects: Fondecyt Regular Project No. 1241967: "Conversos, family, and empire: Converso agency in an imperial context (16th-17th centuries)," 2024-2028; Project "Praying to the God of Israel according to the Portuguese Tradition (16th-18th centuries)," Chair of Sephardic Studies "Alberto Benveniste" of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is a member of the Core Team of the Crossroads Research Centre at the University of Leuven (Belgium); the Research Group on the History of Inquisitions at the Center for the Study of Religious History of the Portuguese Catholic University; and the Jewish Women's Wills: A Collaborative Premodern Collection Project, Oregon State University.