Daniela Samur | Assistant Professor
Daniela Samur
Assistant Professor
About
I am a historian of modern Latin America and am broadly interested in the relation between culture and power, spatial history and theory, and in ways of connecting history and fiction. In my research, I focus on everyday state formation, the social relations of production, exchange, and consumption of mundane objects, material culture, and urban worlds. My current book project Binding the State: Bogotá’s World of Prints is a social history of prints, the materiality of state formation, and the making of urban spaces from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The book’s main argument is that books, prints, and paper forms were the material basis on which the operation and articulation of the Colombian state-system depended. My second book project, which is about the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages, examines state-led projects of social engineering and the geographical hierarchies of state formation in the modern Andes.
PhD, History, Cornell University, 2024
MA, Literary Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2019
BA, History, Universidad de los Andes, 2013
BA, Political Science, Universidad de los Andes, 2012
Modern Latin America, the Andes, Colombia, labor, state formation, urban history, print culture.
Articles
“Bogotá’s Librería Colombiana: Between Rural Haciendas and a Global World of Books, 1880s-1900s,” Journal of Urban History 50, no. 3 (2024): 496-510.Special section Global Urban History Project https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442231209270
Review essays
“The Politics of Printing and Knowledge Production in Latin America and the Caribbean,”
Itinerario 47, no 2 (2023): 278-87. doi:10.1017/S0165115323000037
HIST3910: Urban Latin America
HIST4300: Space and Politics in Modern Latin America
Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants (2021)
Emerging Scholar, Global Urban History Project (GUHP) Mentorship Program (2021-2022)
Bibliographical Society of America-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography, Bibliographical Society of America (2020)