Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

Laura Pensa holds a degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literature from the University of Michigan, with a focus on Colonial Latin America and Indigenous Studies. She is interested in insurgent Indigenous groups of the South American lowlands, historical writing, critical cartography, and contemporary Latin American literature. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania (2023-2024) and is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University (2024-2026).