Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey
Position title: TA: History 460 with Visiting Professor Jim Feldman
Pronouns: he/him
Email: ruedarey@wisc.edu
Address:
Advisors: Elizabeth Hennessy & Nan Enstad
Mailbox: 4031 Mosse Humanities Building
Biography
I am Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey, a Colombian historian specializing in the socio-cultural and environmental history of tobacco. My research encompasses global, local, and regional perspectives, utilizing diverse ethnographic and archival methods. Currently, my Ph.D. project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison focuses on two main areas: the agro-industrial dynamics of the Eastern Colombian Andes and the Tobacco Botanical Expeditions conducted by UC Berkeley’s Botanical Garden across the Andes. Through these cases, I explore the influence of industrial capitalism on the socio-cultural and environmental landscapes of Andean regions in the 20th century.
Field
- Latin American and Caribbean History
- Environmental History: Social-Cultural Environmental Studies
Selected Publications
- 2023 Campesinos in the Rhythms of the Leaf: Plantation Legacies, Contract Farming and the Circuits of Debt in the Colombian Tobacco Industry – Not published
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2021 Los problemas del tabaco, cultura transnacional y testimonio. Link:
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2018 Diario de Tipacoque: Literatura y visualidad en la figuración subregional del mundo rural en el siglo XX colombiano. Link:
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2016 Los Problemas del Tabaco: Gobierno, campesinos y mujeres en la década de 1930. Link:
Selected Awards
- 2023: CHE Graduate Student Research and Travel Award. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 2023: Crowe Dissertation Scholarship. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 2023: Thinker Nave Grant. LACIS. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 2022: Thinker Nave Grant. LACIS. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 2021-2022: Holtz Center top-up grant. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 2020: National Research Program. “Research Program Promotion 2020” with the project “Los problemas del tabaco, cultura transnacional y testimonio: Los cultivadores de Tabaco en la América del siglo XX”. Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH).
Professional Affiliations
- Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE)
- Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS)
- Andean Studies Students Association (ASSO)
Courses Taught as TA
- History 151: The North American West to 1850
- History 260: Latin America: An Introduction
- History 460: American Environmental History
- History 465: Global Environmental History: How do we live in the Anthropocene?