Manuel Medrano

Graduate Student in History at Harvard University
Manuel Medrano
mmedrano@g.harvard.edu
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  • Regions: Latin America, Europe
  • Times: 16th to 20th centuries
  • Themes: History of Science, History of the Book, Intellectual History, Literacy and Writing Systems

Manny Medrano is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Harvard, where he examines pre-Columbian texts, artifacts, and scientific practices, and the history of their transmission, reception, and study in the Americas and worldwide. He is the author of Quipus. Mil años de historia anudada en los Andes y su futuro digital (Planeta, 2021), and his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, Latin American Antiquity, Ethnohistory, and The Hispanic American Historical Review. He holds an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, magna cum laude. He entered Harvard’s History PhD program in 2022.