About Researcher Amy Case

Biography

Viviana Grieco is a professor in the Department of History. As a colonialist, she specializes in the history of Spanish America between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The National Science Foundation (NSF), The John Carter Brown Library, The University of Missouri Research Board, UMKC’s Women and Gender Studies Program, UMKC’s Funding for Excellence Program, UMKC’s Collaborative Data Science Program, and the University of Missouri Strategic Investment Funds have funded her research. Professor Grieco’s first monograph (The Politics of Giving in the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata. Donors, Lenders, Subjects and Citizens. The University of New Mexico Press, 2014) was translated and published in Spanish (La Política de Dar.  Donantes, Prestamistas, Súbditos y Ciudadanos.  Prometeo Libros, 2018). She is also the co-author (with Fabricio Prado and Alex Borucki) of The Río de la Plata from Colony to Nations: Commerce, Society, and Politics (Palgrave McMillan, 2021). Professor Grieco has been invited to present her research and gave keynote addresses at international research centers including the London School of Economics and Political Science in the U.K., the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. Jose Maria Luis Mora in Mexico, and the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani” in Argentina.