Lisl Schoepflin

Lisl Schoepflin is a PhD candidate in the UCLA History Department. Her scholarly interests focus on indigenous and colonial ethnohistory and social memory practices in the Andes, with an emphasis on Inca and Spanish colonial oral and literary arts and material culture. In 2017, she received a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship to conduct archival research in Peru. In the 2021-2022 she is a Getty Pre-doctoral Residency Fellow to complete her dissertation in 2021-22. It explores indigenous participation and authorship in the production and composition of two manuscript versions of an illustrated chronicle, Historia General del Pirú (1616), compiled by the Basque Mercedarian friar, Martín de Murúa. She is a member of UCLA's Andean Lab.