Lisl Schoepflin
Biography
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.
Advanced to Candidacy
Awards & Grants
2021-2022 Getty Residency Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2020-2021 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
2018 Tinker Field Research Grant, UCLA International Institute
2017 Fulbright-Hayes DDRA Fellowship
2015-2016 Graduate Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA.
2015 Early Modern & 18th Century Studies Summer Fellowship
2015 Mellon Fellowship – Spanish Paleography Intensive Workshop
2014 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship
2014 Title VI Fellowship Language Area Studies (FLAS)
2013 Title VI Fellowship Language Area Studies (FLAS)
