About

Dr. Nícanor Domínguez is a Peruvian-born historian with a doctoral degree in Latin American History from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

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His doctoral dissertation focuses on the problem of cultural and ethnic identity formation among Spaniards, Indians, and mestizos (mixed-bloods) in the colonial, mid-seventeenth century Southern Andes.

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Between 2006 and 2011, Dr. Domínguez was a Research Fellow at the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) and Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Boise State University (Boise, Idaho).

 

Between 2011 and 2017 he was teaching in Lima, Peru, at the “Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú” (PUCP) and at the “Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya” (UARM), the Jesuit University of Peru.

 

He has published articles and book reviews in different academic journals in Peru, Bolivia, and the United States. Since the year 2011, he has edited five books on Peruvian history, about the Incas, Andean Colonial History, and Peruvian nineteenth-century politics, published both in Peru and Spain.

 

In 2017, he published a book in Peru, “Aproximaciones a la Historia de Puno y del Altiplano” (“Approaches to the History of Puno and the Altiplano”). Its twenty-one chapters present different aspects of the history of Southern Peru and Bolivia, from Pre-Hispanic times, through the Colonial Era, to the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries.

 

Between 2004 and 2015, Dr. Domínguez published a History column in the Peruvian magazine “Cabildo Abierto”. Since 2015, this column has appeared in the on-line portal of “Noticias SER” in Lima, Peru. This columns present to a wider public historical topics connected to the current issues of interest in the Peruvian press.