Bianca Premo

Research and Teaching Interests:

Professor Premo has researched topics ranging from Andean women and the Spanish colonial economy, to the history of childhood, to African slavery in the Americas, to state policy, law and creole writings during the last decades of Spanish rule. What binds her diverse research interests is a desire to understand how Spanish Americans lived colonialism every day.
Her first book, Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima (2005), reveals how Lima’s children were socialized into colonial hierarchies and how adults viewed and practiced their roles as authority figures over children in a legal culture that favored elite fathers and distant kings. She has also co-edited Raising an Empire, a volume of historical scholarship about children and childhood in early modern Spain, Portugal and colonial Latin America, and is the author of various articles and book chapters on women, children and the law in colonial Peru. For her second monograph, Prof. Premo is undertaking a comparative study of civil litigation in Peru, Mexico and Spain in the eighteenth century.

Professor Premo, who has just recently joined the faculty here at FIU, looks forward to teaching large undergraduate survey courses on the history of Latin American civilization as well as courses on gender and colonial Latin American society. At the graduate level, she hopes to share with students her longstanding fascination with everyday forms of colonial rule, gender and generation, as well as to develop her newer interests in Spanish history, colonial and postcolonial theory, and the eighteenth-century Atlantic World.
Curriculum Vitae

Books:

	Bianca Premo ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (Colonial and Modern Latin America, History of Childhood, Gender, Legal History, Colonial Peru), University of North Carolina, Ph.D. 2001 DM391C Tel. 305 348-1862 email: premob@fiu.edu
Research and Teaching Interests: Professor Premo has researched topics ranging from Andean women and the Spanish colonial economy, to the history of childhood, to African slavery in the Americas, to state policy, law and creole writings during the last decades of Spanish rule. What binds her diverse research interests is a desire to understand how Spanish Americans lived colonialism every day. Her first book, Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima (2005), reveals how Lima’s children were socialized into colonial hierarchies and how adults viewed and practiced their roles as authority figures over children in a legal culture that favored elite fathers and distant kings. She has also co-edited Raising an Empire, a volume of historical scholarship about children and childhood in early modern Spain, Portugal and colonial Latin America, and is the author of various articles and book chapters on women, children and the law in colonial Peru. For her second monograph, Prof. Premo is undertaking a comparative study of civil litigation in Peru, Mexico and Spain in the eighteenth century. Professor Premo, who has just recently joined the faculty here at FIU, looks forward to teaching large undergraduate survey courses on the history of Latin American civilization as well as courses on gender and colonial Latin American society. At the graduate level, she hopes to share with students her longstanding fascination with everyday forms of colonial rule, gender and generation, as well as to develop her newer interests in Spanish history, colonial and postcolonial theory, and the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. *Curriculum Vitae* *Books:*

Bianca Premo

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (Colonial and Modern Latin America, History of Childhood, Gender, Legal History, Colonial Peru), University of North Carolina, Ph.D. 2001