Bianca Premo

Short Biography

Bianca Premo is an associate professor of History at Florida International University. Her first book, Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima (2005), which has been honored with several prizes, reveals how Lima’s children were socialized into colonial hierarchies and how adults viewed and practiced their roles as authority figures over children in a legal culture that favored elite fathers and distant kings. She also co-edited Raising an Empire, a volume of historical scholarship about children and childhood in early modern Spain, Portugal and colonial Latin America, and is the author of various articles and book chapters on women, children and the law in colonial Peru. For her second monograph, Prof Premo is undertaking a comparative study of civil litigation in Peru, Mexico, and Spain in the 18th century.