Dr. Walther Maradiegue
Freie Universität Berlin
ZI Lateinamerika - Institut
Postdoktorand
Project: “Shared Soundscapes: Music Revivals and Identity Politics in Peru”
Raum 204
14195 Berlin
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Since 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow- “Shared Soundscapes: Music Revivals and Identity Politics in Peru Project" - Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
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2020-2021 Visiting Assistant Professor Carleton College (Minnesota, USA)
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. - Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois - USA)
Dissertation Title: Geographies of Indigeneity: Space and Power in the Andes 1880-1930
- M.A. in Anthropology with emphasis in Andean Studies
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima - Perú
Thesis Title: Construcción de la Tradición en el Norte del Perú: ‘Lo Moche’ como Performance y Gobermentalidad
- B.A. in Communication Sciences
Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo – Lambayeque, Perú
PREDOCTORAL AWARDS
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2019 Graduate Fellowship- Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University
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2019 Research Scholarship – Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Berlin
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2018 Graduate Student Dissertation Research Award – Buffett Institute, Northwestern University
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2018 Graduate Summer Research Grant- Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Northwestern University
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2014 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists – DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service
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2014 Opportunity Scholarships - Education USA, US Embassy in Peru
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2013 Marco Polo Grant – Graduate School, Pontificia U. Católica del Perú
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2013 Aristotle Fellowship – Graduate School, Pontificia U. Católica del Perú
Research project:
- Shared Soundscapes: Music Revivals and Identity Politics in Peru
Completed Doctoral Research Project (2020)
“Geographies of Indigeneity: Space and Power in the Andes” (Northwestern University)
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Mary Weismantel, Prof. Dr. Laura León-Llerena
Areas of Interest:
-Sonic Archives
-Indigenous Media
-Racial Geographies
-Quechua Literature
-Visual Studies
-Colonization/Decolonization
-Cultural Studies
PUBLICATIONS
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Work in Progress: “Huaqueros: Archaeology and Precariousness in the Andes.” in Archaeology and its Avatars in Latin America, edited by Jorge Coronado and Alexander Herrera. Forthcoming. |
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Book Chapters: “Lo Moche en el Museo: Etnicidad y Neoliberalismo en la Costa Norte Peruana.” Épicas del Neoliberalismo: Subjetividades Emprendedoras y Ciudadanías Precarias en el Perú, edited by Gisela Cánepa and Leonor Lamas Zoeger. Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia U Católica del Perú, 2020. “A Witch in the City: History and Textuality in Nineteenth-century Andes.” Latin American Textualities: History, Materiality and Digital Media, edited by Andrew Reynolds and Heather Allen. U of Arizona P, 2018, pp. 46-65. |
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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles: “A Poetics of Mud: Andean Ruins.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Forthcoming. “Runapa Ñawin: Quechua Poetry for the Present.” Latin American Literature Today, no. 12, 2019, http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/2019/november/runapa-ñawin-quechua-poetry-present-walther-maradiegue. “Otuzco y la Virgen de la Puerta: Presente y Futuro(s).” Perspectivas Latinoamericanas, no. 9, 2012, pp. 10-24. |
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Book Reviews Review of Visiones de los Andes: Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región Editedby Ximena Briceño and Jorge Coronado. A Contracorriente Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, Fall 2020, pp. 338-343. |