Juan Camilo Rojas

Juan Camilo Rojas is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures. He holds a B.A. in History from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and an M.A. in History from the Universidad de los Andes. Theoretically, his work stands on Cultural and Intellectual History, where he addresses questions regarding the production of images and how they were appropriated in specific cultural contexts, in order to establish a particular social order, in accordance with the Spanish Monarchy moral codes of the 16th-18th centuries.

During the last years he has focused on the presence of the Society of Jesus in Hispanic America and its influence on the intellectual works of female convents. He is interested on how Jesuits' rhetoric, theology and politics contributed to the practices of making and using images, both physical images like paintings, and immaterial images such as mystical visions, and “heard images” in preached sermons.