Jimena Perry, Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)

Dr. Jimena Perry teaches Timeless Issues in History, Emergence of Modern Latin America and Drug Traffic in Latin America. Her research interests are memory, human rights, public history, and museums in Latin America. She has served as an assistant instructor at The University of Texas at Austin, East Carolina University, and has also taught at universities in her hometown of Bogotá, Colombia.

Dr. Jimena Perry is a Latin American Scholar specialized in Colombia. She earned a BS in Anthropology from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research areas are violence, museums, memory, history of anthropology and public history. She brings these three bodies of scholarship together to understand which remembrances individuals and communities’ privilege to pass on to future generations or to forget. She is also the Project Manager of Explorers of the International Federation for Public History since 2018. 

• “Transnational Memory Struggles: Guerrilla Remembrances in Colombia and Venezuela in 2000s.” DE-COMMEMORATION. Removing Statues and Renaming Places. Edited by Jenny Wüstenberg and Sarah Gensburger. Berghahn Books, 2023, pp. 201-210.
• “Restitucions, racisme i historia (histories) pública (públiques). Una proposta d’exercici d’escolta des dels Suds.” l’espill No. 71. Julio 2023.
• Museums, Exhibitions, and Memories of Violence in Colombia: Trying to Remember. Routledge, New York, June 2023.
• Comunidades digitales, museos e historia pública: Experiencias en torno a América Latina. Edited Volume with María Elena Bedoya and Manuel Salge. Universidad Externado de Colombia and Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Bogotá, April, 2023.
• “An Angel for the Dead: Sonia Bermúdez and the Cemetery “People Like Us.” Space and Culture. April 2022.
• “Official Memories of Violence at the National Museum of Colombia, 1980-2000: Cocktails, Art or Social Criticism?” A Contracorriente: Una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. North Carolina State University. Vol. 18 No. 1 (2020): Fall 2020.
• “Are there any Indians left in Colombia? The indigenista movement from 1940 to 1950.” Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, AIBR. Vol. 11, No, 3 September – December 2016. Pp. 363 – 381.
• Caminos de la antropología e Colombia: Gregorio Hernández de Alba. University of Los Andes. Center of Sociocultural and International Studies. Bogotá, 2006.