Isabel Bueno Bravo
has degrees in American History (1989) and in Art History (1992). She obtained her doctoral degree in American Anthropology in 2003 at the Complutense University with a dissertation on war in Mesoamerican. She specializes in the ethnohistory and anthropology of pre-Hispanic and colonial Mesoamerica, with a special focus on Nahua culture and diferent aspects of war. She has also participated in several projects, including Europe and America in contact: a multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural transfer in the New World across time (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, 2012-2017) and the Codex Xolotl proyect. Currently she is participating in the project Indigenous trauma, acculturation and agency. The Nahua World from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century (2019-2021) carried out at the University of Warsaw’s Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity. She is the author of several books, including La guerra en el imperio azteca (Madrid, 2007), El rostro de América prehispánica (México, 2014) and Mesoamérica, territorio en guerra (México, 2015). She is a regular collaborator in several prestigious magazines, including National Geographic, and a frequent speaker at academic conferences.
