Lenny Ureña Valerio
Lenny Ureña Valerio | |
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| Born | 1977 (age 48–49) |
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| Education | University of Puerto Rico |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | The stakes of empire (2010) |
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| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Polish history |
| School or tradition | The cultural turn and postcolonialism |
| Institutions | University of New Mexico |
| Notable works | Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities |
| Website | Lenny A. Ureña Valerio publications on Academia.edu |
Lenny Ureña Valerio (born 1977) is a Puerto Rican scholar of colonial and Polish history, who works at the University of New Mexico.[1]
Biography
Valerio was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to Puerto Rico at the age of 9. She studied as an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico before gaining a doctorate at the University of Michigan. She has described her personal experience of immigration and her simultaneously changing identity, from a White Dominican to Puerto Rican and then a person of color, as having shaped her interest in postcolonialism and subaltern studies.[2]
Research
Valerio's interest in Polish colonial history began as a doctoral researcher. In order to undertake research on the topic she taught herself both German and Polish.[3] Her doctoral project would eventually lead to the publication of her 2021 monograph Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities.[4] In the book Valerio explored the relationship between German imperialism in Africa and Poland. Her arguments contributed to the 'Windhoek to Auschwitz thesis', relating to the Boomerang effect of colonialism, first put forth by the historian Jürgen Zimmerer.[5] Valerio's monograph was praised as an innovative contribution, although it also received criticism for oversimplifying Polish perspectives through the lens of national identity.[6]
In 2020 Valerio was the recipient of the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies, awarded by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities.[7]
References
- ^ "Latin American & Iberian Institute: Lenny Ureña Valerio". University of New Mexico.
- ^ Steven Seegel (2 January 2024). "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities". New Books in Eastern European Studies (Podcast). New Books Network.
- ^ Polak-Springer, Peter (April 2020). "Review of Ureña Valerio, Lenny A, Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920". H-Net.
- ^ Kauffman, Jesse (2021). "Lenny A. Ureña Valerio. Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920". The American Historical Review. 126 (1): 409–410.
- ^ Puchalski, Piotr (2020). "Colonising Poland's Historiography. Concerning Lenny A. Ureña Valerio's Breakthrough Study". Dzieje Najnowsze. 52 (3): 313–325. doi:10.12775/DN.2020.3.15.
- ^ Aniceta Turkowska, Justyna (2021). "Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920". European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health. 78 (1): 239–242. doi:10.1163/26667711-78010012.
- ^ "2020 Recipient: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio". ASEEES. 2020.