Curriculum Vitae English
Contact Information
Van Dyck Hall 009
Department of History
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Bogotá, Colombia
lv209@history.rutgers.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Department of History, expected 2024
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Dissertation: “Caring Women: Midwives and Female Healers in New Granada, 1700-1850”
Major: History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Health
Minors: Latin America and Women’s and Gender History
MA.
Department of History, 2021
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
B.A.
Major Political Science, Minor: History and Law, 2013
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
PUBLICATIONS
Academic
Review of Few, Martha, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren. Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire. Translated by Nina M. Scott. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2020. Hispanic American Historical Review 101, no. 2 (May 2021): 321–22.
Varón Carvajal, Lisette. “Historias de Orígenes, Violencia Colonial, y Conocimiento Femenino: La Historia Desconocida de La Primera y Única Protomédica de América.” Revista Historia y Espacio de La Universidad Del Valle Nobleza e Ilustración (expected June 2023).
Varón-Carvajal, Lisette. “Caring for the Truth: The Participation of Medical Practitioners in Trials of Infanticide and Abortion in New Granada 1760-1830.” Journal of Social History, Special Issue: Infanticide in the Americas, (expected 2024).
Non-academic and popular press
Varón Carvajal, Lisette. “No me jodan: autonomías rotas y cuidados imposibles” Laguna Negra, Enero 2022.
Varón Carvajal, Lisette. “Copitus Menstrualis.” En Un gabinete para el futuro, edited by Gisela Heffes, Alejo Ponce de León, Carolina Sánchez, and Christian Vásquez. Bogotá: Urdimbres, 2022.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
2022
Rutgers Graduate Public Humanities Internship Program for Summer
Sponsored by the SAS Dean of the Humanities through an ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grant
2022
Digital Humanities Seed Grant
Awarded by Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative
2021
International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council for 60 graduate students in
the social sciences and humanities
2021
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies Program
2020
Award for Research and Conference Travel
Rutgers History Department
2019
Andrew Mellon Summer Study Grant
Awarded by Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences to 25 graduate students in the Humanities
2018
Small Grant Fund
Awarded by Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies,
2017
Small Grant Award
Rutgers History Department
PODCASTS INTERVIEWS (SELECTION)
2022
Ramos, Christina. Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment.
Interview by Lisette Varón Carvajal. Accessed October 14, 2022.
2021
Armus, Diego, and Pablo Gómez. The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America.
Interview by Lisette Varón Carvajal. Accessed February 17, 2022.
2021
Few, Martha, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren. Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean
Operation in the Spanish Empire. Interview by Lisette Varón Carvajal. Accessed October 14, 2022.
2020
Briggs, Laura. Taking Children: A History of American Terror. Interview by Lisette Varón-Carvajal,
September 29, 2020.
2020
Appelbaum, Nancy. Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-
Century Colombia. Interview by Lisette Varón-Carvajal, March 13, 2020.
2020
Uribe-Uran, Victor. Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic.
Interview by Lisette Varón-Carvajal. Accessed October 14, 2022.
2019
Leal, Claudia. Claudia Leal, “Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the
Rainforests of Western Colombia” (U Arizona Press, 2018). Interview by Lisette Varón Carvajal, September 23, 2019.
2019
Jaffary, Nora E. Nora Jaffary, “Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception
from 1750 to 1905” (UNC Press, 2016). Interview by Lisette Varón Carvajal, September 26, 2019.
2019
Premo, Bianca. The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire.
Interview by Lisette Varón-Carvajal. Accessed October 14, 2022.
PRESENTATIONS
Conference Papers Presented
2022
“Creating Medical and Judicial Truths: Expert Testimonies of Midwives in New Granada’s Bourbon Era” paper presented in panel for AHA annual conference (online)
2021
“Historias de orígenes, violencia colonial, y conocimiento femenino: la historia desconocida de la primera y única Protomédica de América” Latin American Studies Association annual conference.
2020
“Troubling Histories of Gender and Medicine: Female Privilege and Indigenous Dispossession in NewGranada” panel co-organized for the 18 th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women , Genders, andSexualities, John Hopkins university (cancelled Covid-19)
2018
“José Felix Merizalde's Medical Dream: A Fraught National Project in the Republic of Gran Colombia.”
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center 17th Annual Graduate Conference. Stony Brook
University
2018
“The Menstrual Cup as A Cyborg Technology: Reflections on Feminist Science Studies.” Natura Graduate Conference. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2017
“Medicine and Politics Intertwined: The Liminal Position of Colombian Creole Elites.” Susman Graduate Conference in the History Department. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Workshop Seminar
2021
“Historias de orígenes, violencia colonial, y conocimiento femenino: la historia desconocida de la primera y única Protomédica de América”, Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2020
“Creating Medical and Juridical Truths: Expert Testimonies of Midwives in Eighteenth Century New
Granada”, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Invited Talks
2022
“Conceptos médicos de parteras en los juicios criminales del AGN. Siglo XVIII-XIX”, Archivo General de la Nación, Bogotá, Colombia.
Discussant
2022
Interview with Mauricio Nieto about his book “Una historia de la verdad en Occidente”, Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBO), Bogotá, Colombia
2022
Book Talk with Dr. Pablo Gómez, organized by Rutgers Center of Latin American Studies, Caribbean Working Group
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020
Grader. “Science and Society,” Department of History, James Delbourgo, Rutgers University
2018
Teaching Assistant. “World History II (1500-Present),” Department of History, Johan Mathew,
Rutgers University
2017
Teaching Assistant. “Looking at 21 st Century Global Issues in Historical Perspective,” Rudolph Bell and Laura Weigert, Rutgers University
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2020
Research Assistant to James Delbourgo, Rutgers University
2015
Research Assistant. Secretaría de la Mujer – (Office for Women’s Rights—Office of the Mayor of Bogotá), Bogotá, Colombia
2013
Research Assistant, Feminist NGO Sisma Mujer, Bogotá, Colombia
2011
Research Assistant to Miguel García, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
SERVICE
2019
Global South Workshop. Co-convener. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
2018 – 2022
Rutgers Feminist and Gender History Graduate Workshop. Co-convener. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
– Conference on Latin American History
Latin American Studies Association
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
LENGUAGES
Spanish (Native)
English (Fluent)
French (Conversational)