Dr. Luis Londoño is a historian whose research focuses on the social and cultural history of law and politics in modern Latin America. His scholarship examines how legal institutions shape and reflect the dynamics of race, gender, emotion, and social hierarchy.
Londoño is the co-author, with Dr. Nora Jaffary, of an article published in Gender and History (2024) on prostitution, sexuality, and the law in Mexico from the eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. His doctoral dissertation, which he is currently revising into a book manuscript, explores the emotional dynamics of violent crime in nineteenth-century Yucatán, Mexico. Based on over four hundred homicide trials, the project investigates how the inclusion of emotions in the penal code of 1871 and the removal of 'Indians' as a legal classification shaped judicial practice in a region marked by racial hierarchies and legal pluralism.
In addition to his work on indigeneity, emotion, and gender in Mexican law, Dr. Londoño has contributed a chapter on elite politics in 1930s Colombia to an edited volume forthcoming from Routledge. His research plans going forward include collaboration with Dr. David Parker on sections of a project that examines how state experts and intellectual elites in Spain, Argentina, Chile, and Peru articulated national understandings of the “social question” in dialogue with European debates and transnational frameworks at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dr. Londoño holds a BA in History from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), an MA in History from McGill University, and a PhD in History from Concordia University.
