Overview
I am a historian of colonial Latin America with a particular focus on maritime cultural landscapes during the Age of Revolutions. My research investigates the conceptualization of the Pacific Ocean by the diverse communities that explored and inhabited it. In particular, I analyze how Indigenous populations, whalers, and scientific expeditions produced distinct—often conflicting—spatial imaginaries. To this end, I employ interdisciplinary methodologies that integrate geography, history, and archaeology in order to examine the ways in which these communities constructed and negotiated their understandings of oceanic and coastal spaces.
Since the spring of 2023, I have been engaged in a digital humanities project with the support of my advisor Ernesto Bassi, the Barnard College through the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC) and the Digital Humanities Co-Lab at Cornell. This project involves the development of a digital archive centered on the Caribbean Sea during the Age of Revolutions, named "Atlantic Seascapes Project." https://atlanticseascapesarchive.com/
I was a fellow of Latin American and the Caribbean Studies Program in 2023 and I’m currently working with the support of the Institute of European Studies.
Publications
Articles (Peer-reviewed):
Corredor Acosta, M. P., y M. Pinzón Narváez. «Corsarios y nación. El papel del corso en la construcción del territorio marítimo de Colombia, 1821-1828». Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, vol. 52, n.º 2, julio de 2025, doi:10.15446/achsc.v52n2.116262.
Corredor, María Paula. “Faros, boyas y balizas: la transformación de las ayudas a la navegación en Colombia (1876-1930).” Memorias, no. 49 (January 31, 2023): 11–41. https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.49.505.444.
Book reviews:
Corredor, María Paula. «Sergio Paolo Solano. Trabajo Y Sociedad. Trabajadores De Los Sistemas Defensivos De Cartagena De Indias, 1750-1811. Bogotá: Editorial Universidad Del Rosario, 2024». Historia Caribe, vol. 20, n.º 46, marzo de 2025, pp. 247-51, doi:10.15648/hc.46.2025.4302.
Corredor, María Paula. «Sebastián Díaz Ángel, Lucía Duque Muñoz, Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez y Anthony Picón Rodríguez (Eds.). Entre Líneas. Una historia de Colombia en mapas. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, Editorial Planeta Colombiana-Crítica, 2023». Historia Crítica, 2024
Journal coordinator:
Corredor, María Paula; Robinson López Arévalo; Rocío Moreno Cabanillas. Historia y Memoria. N° 32 «Cuatro siglos de cartas. Correo, materialidad y gobierno en América, siglos XVI al XIX» (to be published January 2026)
Other contributions:
Corredor, María Paula. “Papeles, cartas y oficios: Documentos sobre historia de la comunicación en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (1570-1579)”. El Taller de la Historia. 13 (2021), 273-282. https://repositorio.unicartagena.edu.co/handle/11227/13275