Faculty of Humanities

Diploma in History of Peru

| Dr. Javier Gómez

A graduate of the Complutense University of Madrid, he holds a PhD in Archaeology and History (2017) and a Master's degree in History and Anthropology of the Americas (2012). He has taught pre-Hispanic and colonial Peruvian history at the Sacred Heart Women's University and contemporary world history at the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University. He currently teaches history at the University of Piura.

Since 2015 he has been a member of the research team Communication, Culture and Identity at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Eloy Alfaro Lay University of Manabí, in Ecuador.

 

| Dr. César Astuhuamán

She studied Archaeology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of San Marcos (1998), Peru. She then obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (2008), England. She is currently writing a book about Aypate, the Inca center in Piura.

Between 2001 and 2023, he was a professor in the Department of Archaeology at the National University of San Marcos, where he taught subjects of pre-Hispanic architecture, landscapes and territories (undergraduate and postgraduate).

 

| Master Pavel Elias

Historian, professor, and researcher at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Piura. Master's degree in Andean History from the Andean University Simón Bolívar (Ecuador campus).

He has participated as a speaker and lecturer at events in Peru and abroad.

She has also undertaken research stays in Spanish, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian historical archives.

He is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of History (Peru).

He has published several research articles in journals and books in Peru and abroad.

He has been a research member of the project “San Miguel de la Nueva Castilla: First Hispanic Foundation in the South Pacific.” He is also a research member of the Ibero-American Network for Research on Colonial Urbanism.

His research focuses on the history of Northern Peru in the 16th and 17th centuries (economy, society, politics, culture and religion).

She is currently pursuing a doctorate in the Andean Studies Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

 

| Ms. Roxana Hernández

She holds a Bachelor's degree in Educational Sciences and a Master's degree in Education with a specialization in History from the University of Piura. She is also a doctoral candidate in Education at the same institution. In addition, she has completed doctoral studies in Educational Theories (PUCP) and postgraduate studies in Virtual Tutor Training at Cayetano Heredia University. She also holds diplomas in School Educational Organization Management, Higher Education Management, and Higher Education Training and Development, all from PUCP.

Specialist in Design of Learning Experiences in Social Sciences, Design and Evaluation in a Competency-Based Approach, Neuroscience and Education, Neuroleadership and Project-Based Learning.

First generation WISE Women in Entrepreneurship Program. IDB, Telefónica Open Future. HUB UDEP (2019). Invited speaker at TEDx GRAU (2014) on the topic “Critical thinking and social sciences in education”.

 

| Ms. Cristina Vargas

She holds a Master's degree in Art History and Heritage from the University of Bordeaux and a Master's degree in Museology from the École du Louvre (France). She has completed a diploma in Museology and Museography at the National University of San Marcos (Peru). She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Tourism at the San Martín de Porres University (Peru). She is a lawyer, having graduated from the University of Piura.

She currently teaches at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Piura (Piura). She researches museological topics and is a member of various associations focused on museology and curatorship.

 

| Dr. Víctor Velezmoro

PhD in Art History from the University of Seville (Spain). Bachelor of Arts from the National University of San Marcos (Lima). Postgraduate studies in University Teaching, Public Policy and Cultural Communication.

Professor in the Department of History and Art of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Piura (since 1998).

She teaches history, Peruvian and world art history, and visual culture. She specializes in the graphic work of the chronicler Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (16th century). She is currently researching urban and artistic phenomena and their relationship to economic and cultural processes in the Piura Region.

 

| Dr. Julissa Gutiérrez

Bachelor of Education with a specialization in History and Bachelor of Arts with a specialization in History. Both from the University of Piura. PhD in Ibero-American Heritage of Comparative History and Territory from the University of Huelva (Spain).

She is a Principal Professor in the Department of History and Art at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Piura, where she teaches various subjects of Universal and Peruvian History.

His research has focused on two areas: African slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Chinese migration to the northern coast of Peru, on which he has published in collective books and in specialized journals.

 

| Dr. Ruth Rosas

Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Education with a specialization in History and Social Sciences from the University of Piura; Master's degree in Ibero-American History from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); Master's and PhD in Comparative History and Heritage from the University of Huelva (Spain). Specialist in Religious History and Cultural History.

He has published several articles in indexed journals, chapters in international monographs, and books.

She is a member of the International Research Project “Passions and affections in the feminine. Europe and America, 17th-20th centuries. Historical and literary perspectives” whose principal investigator is Dr. María Luisa Candau of the University of Huelva.

She has worked at the University of Piura, Piura campus, since 2000. Currently, she is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Department of History and Art.

 

| Dr. Francisco Quiroz

He holds a PhD in History from the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM), with master's degrees from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and UNMSM, where he is a full professor in the Department of History. He has been a visiting professor in the PhD program in Humanities at UDEP and at the University of Cádiz, Spain. He is the current president of the Peruvian Association of Economic History.

Specialist in the history of Peru and Latin America between the colony and the republic, with emphasis on economic and social history and historiography.

Her recent publications include: “Alms for the Rich: Impoverished Spanish Women in Pursuit of Making a Living in Late Colonial Lima”, in The Americas (2024), edited by Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán. The History of Independent Peru (Readings of Independence, 5) (2022), “Learning together: Indians, free blacks and slaves in Lima's colonial workshops”, in: Paola Revilla Orías, Paulo Cruz Terra, and Christian G. De Vito (eds.) (2022). Worlds of labor in Latin America.

| Dr. Elizabeth Hernández

Doctor of History from the University of Navarra (Spain). Full Professor and Researcher at the University of Piura, Lima Campus (Peru). Associate Member of the Riva-Agüero Institute. Member of the Peruvian Academy of Ecclesiastical History. Member of the Peruvian Association of Economic History. Since 2015, she has been part of the Executive Secretariat of the Colloquia “Towards the Bicentennial of Peru’s Independence” of the Riva-Agüero Institute.

His work is part of the new history of independence processes in Peru, regional history versus a history with a capital-centric vision, and the processes of building republics and the State.

His latest monograph is: José de la Riva Agüero y Sánchez Boquete, first president of Peru (1783-1858), Editorial Fund of the Congress of Peru, Riva-Agüero Institute, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, 2019. And his latest article in an indexed journal is: “The independences in northern Peru: the intendancy of Trujillo and the patriot option (1820-1823)”, in Magazine of the Indies, vol. 81, no. 201 (2021), of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Madrid.

 

| Emilio Candela, M.Sc.

She studied Literature and History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and received her Master's degree from the same university. Her research focuses on the state, society, and politics in 20th-century Peru and Latin America, and she has published several books and articles in various national academic journals.

He teaches at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, the University of Piura, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and is the Executive Secretary of the Riva-Agüero Institute at the latter institution. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on populism and political propaganda during the Manuel Odría regime.