Daniel Guzman Salinas

Daniel is a doctoral candidate at the University of Notre Dame, where he studies colonial Latin American history and the role of Catholic devotions and Tridentine piety in seventeenth-century Peru. His research examines the role of spirituality and the culture of piety among colonial subjects, and the role that gender played in shaping devotion and creating masculine public figures of holiness.

 

He has previously studied the administration of parishes in colonial Peru and how the disconnection of interests between bishops and local priests complicated the implementation of ecclesiastical policies and generated spaces for conflict among the clergy and between priests and their parishioners.

 

Daniel holds a master's degree in history from Texas Christian University, and a bachelor's degree from the National University of San Marcos in Peru. He has served as the director of research at the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru, and as the editor of Historia y Cultura, the museum's research journal.