Curriculum Vitae

Courses

Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean
The Andes: Race, Region and Nation.
Latin America: Art and Nation
Transnational Latin Americas

Contact
Office: Old Main, room 302
Tel# (651) 696-6772
Email: ecapello@macalester.edu

Ernesto Capello

Assistant Professor of History

Ernesto Capello joined the Macalester faculty in 2008 as Assistant Professor of Latin American History. Born in California, Professor Capello was raised in Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 2005 and served on the faculty of the University of Vermont before coming to the Twin Cities.
Professor Capello teaches introductory, intermediate and advanced courses in Latin American and urban history that treat the intersection between local and global identity, racial and ethnic identities, and the relationship between arts, politics, and the state. He also offers courses specifically targeting the history of the Andes, colonialism, and cultural and geographical theory.
His research interests include urban history, the history of cartography, transnationalism, and memory. His writings have appeared in various journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America including the Latin American Research Review, City, ISTOR, and Procesos. He is currently completing a book manuscript that analyzes manipulations of space and history in a rapidly modernizing Quito titled City at the Center of the World: Space, History and Modernity in Quito. Future research includes an investigation of a commemorative French and Ecuadorian cartographic collaboration in the early twentieth century and a new book project examining hemispheric responses to Nelson Rockefeller’s 1969 Presidential Mission to Latin America.