Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez

Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, a historian of colonial Latin America and assistant professor at UT Austin, explores how the New Kingdom of Granada formed and faltered in the Northern Andes. He discusses contested conquest, Indigenous political and economic roles, archival recoveries like textiles and petitions, regional geographies, anti‑colonial coalitions, and the lasting legacies shaping modern Colombia.

Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, a historian of colonial Latin America and UT Austin professor, discusses the century-long making and unmaking of the New Kingdom of Granada. Short takes cover contested imperial formation, Indigenous political projects and voices, archival sleuthing across maps and textiles, highland-lowland dynamics, resistance movements, and the economic role of indigenous textiles.