#  Parry Lecture with Larissa Brewer García (U Chicago): “The Contested Exemplarity of Black Upward Mobility in Colonial Peru” 

 



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 **April 2, 2026** 

 04:30PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Thompson Room, Barker Center**  

 [12 Quincy Street  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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[Larissa Brewer-García ](https://rll.uchicago.edu/larissa-brewer-garcia)specializes in colonial Latin American studies, with a focus on cultural productions of the Caribbean, the Andes, and the African diaspora. Within these areas, her interests include gender studies, literature and law, genealogies of race and racism, humanism and Catholicism, and translation studies.

She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships, including the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the Franke Institute in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She currently holds a three-year Ivy+ Mellon Leadership fellowship.

Moderated by [Paulina Alberto](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/paulina-l-alberto) and [Alejandro de la Fuente](https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/directory/facultycommittee/)

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In collaboration with [David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies](https://www.drclas.harvard.edu/)



 

 



 

 

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