Doctoral Student Public Humanities Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: Appealing Peru: Basque Identity and the Potosí Mines
Emma Otheguy is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at New York University. Her dissertation, Appealing Peru: Basque Identity and the Potosí Mines, explores ethnogenesis among Basque-speakers in Spain and colonial Latin America. In 2014, Emma was awarded the Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources from the Council of Library and Information Resources. Emma is also a children’s author with a strong Latino focus. Her debut picture book, a biography of Cuban poet and national hero José Martí, is forthcoming from Lee & Low Books in 2017.