Geometry, Frans Floris (1557)

Estudios sobre Europa,
el mundo mediterráneo
y su difusión atlántica
(HUM 680)

Antonio José Jiménez García-Baquero

(Seville, 1999) Graduate in History by the University of Seville (2018-2022), master’s degree in American Studies (mention in History of America) by the University of Seville (2022-2023). His research focuses in social and political history in the viceroyalty of New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth century, specifically in political conflicts and negotiation practices between the different political actors in the Valley of Mexico.

He is currently a PhD student at the University of Seville and a predoctoral researcher (FPI) at the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos (Institute of Hispano-American Studies) in Seville (EEHA/IH, CSIC), where he is member of the research project titled Marcos de mapeo y prácticas de territorialización en América (siglos XVI-XVIII): espacios, categorías y representaciones (Mapping frameworks and practices of territorialisation in the Americas, XVIth and XVIIIth centuries: spaces, categories and representations) also known as MAPWORKS. He is also member of the research group titled Estudios Comparados del Caribe y el Mundo Atlántico (Comparative Studies of the Caribbean and the Atlantic World), within the department of American Studies in the Institute of History of the CSIC. His doctoral thesis focuses on political and social conflicts in Mexico City in the late XVIth and early XVIIth centuries, having issues related to the history of cartography and the history of science as the centre of attention.