Dr Natalie Cobo

I am a DPhil student in History working on the early modern Philippines, with a special interest in religious conversion, the circulation of knowledge, and the understanding of difference. My project explores how the expectations and perceptions of missionaries were shaped by classical texts, knowledge, and ethnographies, and how this common, classical frame of reference was used to convey and describe their experiences to an audience back in Europe and America. I am also interested more broadly in the intellectual culture of the Spanish Empire and am currently involved in a project to translate Juan de Solórzano y Pereira's De Gubernatione at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.