Bio
Dr. Sandra Londono-Ardila is a historian of modern and contemporary Latin America and a transnational educator. Her research focuses on the relationship between religion, culture, and politics, with a focus on the history of Catholicism, the Catholic Church, and lay Catholic activism. Drawing on her interdisciplinary background in Anthropology and Education, her research has examined Colombian and Latin American experiences of Catholic Action that involve clergy, lay actors, and social movements, in the production of political culture; reproduction and transformation of systems of knowledge, beliefs, and values that shape social and political attitudes. Subfields in her research encompass peasant education and modernization in Colombia, intellectual circulation and appropriation of Catholic thought in the region, Social Catholicism, Catholic Action: method, practice, and approaches, Catholic lay activism, Latin American thought and politics, and student movements in Latin America.
Dr. Londono is a contributor to the Digital Archive of Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean, a project by the Latin American Interdisciplinary Initiative on Religion at FIU.
Dr. Londono's work can be reached at Sandra Londono-Ardila - Florida International University