
Interview with Alejandro Quintero Mächler, author of “Autopsy, Patrimony, and a Christianized Reforma: Manuel Ramírez Aparicio’s Mexican Conventual History, 1861–1862”
Alejandro Quintero Mächler is a research scholar and lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian cultures from Columbia University. His interests revolve around nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual and cultural history, and his book Perder la cabeza en el siglo XIX: Ensayos sobre historia de Colombia e Hispanoamérica was published in 2023. You can read his article “Autopsy, Patrimony, and a Christianized Reforma: Manuel Ramírez Aparicio’s …