Good Creditors and Good Debtors: Campesino Identity and Agricultural Credit in the Colombian Twentieth Century (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)

Mariana Díaz Chalela, Ph.D candidate in Latin American history at Yale University, will present the next Agrarian Studies paper of the Spring 2025 semester. For these seminars, participants send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium. Meetings are held in a hybrid format, both on Zoom and in-person at 230 Prospect Street, Room 101, on Fridays 11am–1pm Eastern. Please contact agrarian.studies@yale.edu to receive the meeting information and the password to download the paper from the Agrarian Studies website.

 

Mariana Díaz Chalela is a Ph.D candidate in Latin American history at Yale University. Her research interests include the history of international development, state formation, agrarian reform, and the role of law in shaping historical change. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Borrowing Out of Poverty: Credit and State Formation in the Making of Rural Colombia (1929-1980)” examines the history of agricultural credit policies in Latin America and their connection to state formation and land politics. Before coming to Yale, Mariana earned her law degree and an M.A. in History at Universidad de los Andes and worked as a lawyer in Colombia. Her research at Yale has been generously funded by the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Tinker Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council.