David Justo Herrero Ramírez

David Justo Herrero Ramírez is a postgraduate student at the University of Granada, where he is simultaneously pursuing the Master’s Degree in History: From Europe to America. Societies, Powers, Cultures (EURAME) and the Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training (MAES). Alongside his studies, he holds a collaboration scholarship in the Department of Modern and American History at the same university, contributing to research projects, document management, and the department’s academic activities.

He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Granada, receiving numerous academic distinctions and honors throughout his studies. His Bachelor’s Thesis, entitled Testimonies and Suspicions: The Latency of Resistance from the Evangelizing Perspective, was also awarded the highest distinction. Between 2023 and 2024, he completed an Erasmus+ exchange at the University of Siena (Università degli Studi di Siena), where he studied Modern History and the History of the Americas entirely in Italian. He is also scheduled to participate in the 13th International Symposium of the Spanish Association of Americanists.

His research interests focus on rumor, suspicion, and ecclesiastical surveillance in colonial Mesoamerica, as well as on religious syncretism, symbolic resistance, and Indigenous agency in response to the evangelizing project of New Spain.