#  Manuel Medrano 

 

 



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 email <mmedrano@g.harvard.edu> 

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Manny Medrano is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Harvard, where he examines pre-Columbian texts, artifacts, and scientific practices, and the history of their transmission, reception, and study in the Americas and worldwide. He is the author of *Quipus. Mil años de historia anudada en los Andes y su futuro digital* (Planeta, 2021), and his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in *Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society*, *Latin American Antiquity*, *Ethnohistory*, and *The Hispanic American Historical Review*. His research has been featured by NPR, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The BBC, and Google Arts &amp; Culture. He holds an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, *magna cum laude*. He entered Harvard’s History PhD program in 2022.



 

 

 





 

 

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