Eleonora Poggio

Eleonora Poggio is a researcher at the Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research examines the impact of non-Spanish European migration on legal, economic, and political systems in Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America. She leads a Swedish Research Council project on taxation’s role in defining foreigner status in the seventeenth-century Spanish Indies and collaborates on ‘Imperial Expansion and Intercultural Diplomacy: Treaty-making in Southeast Asia, c. 1750–1920’. She is also a steering committee member at the Center, coordinator for the Ph.D. Program in Global Humanities, and co-coordinator of the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons at LNU.