Bruno Stori

Bruno Stori is a researcher of the colonial Andes and Amazon, focusing on textual and visual sources related to geographical knowledge. His current research focuses on the production of knowledge about the highlands and lowlands of South America and the role of non-human entities in the depiction and interpretation of such spaces. Understanding that the Andean and Amazonian landscapes have a connected history from the pre-colonial period to the present, Bruno is interested in analyzing how the diverse modes of interspecies interactions influenced the ways these environments were described, mapped, and experienced in the colonial era. Prior to arriving at Penn State, Bruno obtained his B.A. and M.A. in History from the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, with works on the Early Modern cartographic representations of the myth of El Dorado and the practices of cartographic translation in Jesuit maps of 17th-century China.

Colonial Latin America; History of Cartography; Environmental History; Non-anthropocentric narratives; History of the Amazon and the Andes.