About Francisco A. Ortega

Francisco A. Ortega is a professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. He specializes in intellectual and political history in Colombia and Spanish America. He has also published on the theory of history and on the relations between social violence, history, and memory. He has been a visiting scholar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Harvard University, Stanford, and at the Max Planck Institute-Frankfurt. He is currently preparing a manuscript on the languages of social difference and the cultural, political and institutional challenges faced by early Spanish American republics during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.