José Carlos De la Puente

José Carlos de la Puente Luna is a Professor of Latin American History and Director of Graduate Studies at Texas State University. He is the author of Los curacas hechiceros de Jauja: Batallas mágicas y legales en el Perú colonial (2007) and Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court (2018), and the coeditor of El taller de la idolatría: Los manuscritos del jesuita Pablo José de Arriaga (2021). Long interested in Indigenous archival practices related to land tenure and customs of commoning, he is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Commoners: A History of Colonial Andean Commons.”